This list represents our remaining stock of poetry books and ephemera of all periods but with emphasis on modernist poetry published by small presses.
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Christine Stewart
From ‘Taxonomy’
Published by West House Books 2003
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
Prose-poems with b/w graphics. ‘An unusual and original collection that updates the Renaissance emblem-book for the post-Language age.’ (David Kennedy, PN Review.)
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Price £6.00
40pp
ISBN
1-904052-07-X
List ref
WB100
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Sir John Suckling
The Works
Containing his Poems, Letters, and Plays
Published by Jacob Tonson 1719
Edition New edition
Condition Very good
Portrait frontispiece. No half-titles. Some browning throughout. Modern blue cloth, typewritten label.
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Price £35.00
List ref
WB1272
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Thomas Swan
A Selection from the Works of Thomas Swan
Ed. Martin Corless-Smith, Alan Halsey
Published by West House Books 2001
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
Poetry & prose edited from Worcester City Records Office MS 8911 by Martin Corless-Smith & Alan Halsey. This is the first selection from the poems of Thomas Swan (1653-80) since the Worcester Antiquarian Society’s pioneering edition of 1876. Using a recently discovered manuscript the selection corrects some earlier errors in transcription and includes previously unrecorded variants and fragments. Swan’s remarks on colour are printed for the first time. ‘Its editors deserve congratulations for permitting Thomas Swan so to disturb our sense of historical continuity in poetry, and permitting him to put our modernity into question’ (Alan Munton)
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Price £5.00
20pp
ISBN
0-9531509-7-6
List ref
WB102
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Jonathan Swift
The Examiner
and Other Pieces Written in 1710-11
Ed. Herbert Davis
Published by Basil Blackwell Oxford 1940
Edition 1st such
Condition Very good
Cloth, gilt-lettered spine slightly dulled. Slight soiling to edges. Owner’s name & date.
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Price £15.00
292pp
List ref
WB1350
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Joshua Sylvester
Bartas His Deuine Weekes & Workes Translated
Published by Humfrey Lownes London 1608
Edition 2nd collected
Condition Good
This edition adds The History of Judith translated by Tho. Hudson. Considerable loss to bottom corner of engraved title page. A8 loose. Some extensive ink underlining etc up to p.145, some pencil underlining thereafter. A little worming. Somewhat worn contemporary calf with gilt, modern reback.
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Price £150.00
List ref
WB873
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Joshua Sylvester
The Complete Works
Ed. Alexander B. Grosart
Published by AMS New York 1967
Edition Facsimile reprint
Condition Fine
Complete in 2 volumes, 263 + 438pp. With memorial-introduction, notes and illustrations, glossarial index etc. First published in the Chertsey Worthies Library, 1880. Cloth. A few small faint stains on fore-edges otherwise virtually mint.
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Price £35.00
List ref
WB1972
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Charles H. Taylor, Jr.
The Early Collected Editions of Shelley’s Poetry
A Study in the History and Transmission of the Printed Text
Published by Yale UP New Haven 1958
Edition 1st
Condition Very good
Cloth, a near-fine copy in darkened dustjacket, heavily darkened at spine. Cutting of TLS review 19.6.59 laid down on rear pastedown.
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Price £30.00
108pp
List ref
WB1928
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Philip Terry
Oulipoems
Published by Ahadada 2007
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
’The title of Philip Terry’s brilliant book pays explicit homage to the Oulipo; but while he uses many of the group’s methods, he invariably goes his own way with them, making poems that are full of an original sense of wit and wonder. He has taken the notion that poetry can emerge from arbitrary procedures and transformed it into a sumptuous variety of explosively novel delights.’ Harry Mathews
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Price £6.00
70pp
ISBN
978-0-9781414-2-4
List ref
WB975
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