Poetry

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Rewi Alley | The People Sing | Rewi Alley | 1958 | Jacket rather worn, with some loss to the spine. | £50

W. H. Auden | A Certain World | Faber | 1971 | 057109466X Second impression in price-clipped jacket. The spine of the jacket is sunned, & the title & publisher’s name, both in red ink, have faded. The book is noticeably slant, with the front cover set forward. Gift inscription on ffep. No problem with text pages. | £40

W. H. Auden | The Orators | Faber | 1966 | Third edition in unclipped jacket. Red band on spine very slightly faded. Front cover set a little forward. Intermittent foxing to pages, which show some signs of handling. A good-looking copy but evidently secondhand. | £40

Djuna Barnes; Phillip Herring, Osias Stutman (eds) | Collected Poems | Wisconsin | 2005 | Unread copy with very light crease to cover & opening pages from previous storage/display. | £150

Sinclair Beiles | Ashes of Experience | Wurm | 1969 | Quite fervent dedication from author on ffep, along with dedicatee’s signature & rubber stamp duplicating the price on the front flap. Predominantly white cover is worn & marked, outer edge of page block is dusty & marked, & lower corner of ffep is lightly marked | £100

Wendell Berry | The Country of Marriage | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 1973 | 0151226954 No jacket, cloth cover rubbed & worn at edges, with a few marks. Gift inscription on ffep. | £40

André Breton; René Char; Paul Éluard; Keith Waldrop [tr.] | Ralentir Travaux | Exact Change | 1990 | Cover scuffed, lower corner bumped. | £40

Emily Bronte; Philip Henderson (sel., intr.) | Poems | Lawson and Dunn | 1947 | Very good copy in unclipped jacket. Spine & upper edge of jacket are sunned, some loss to edges, most evident at top of spine. Price has been increased in ink on front flap. Previous owner’s labels on ffep & rear pastedown. | £30

Dan Burt | We Look like This – CD INCLUDED | Carcanet | 2012 | 9781847771971 First printing. CD in unopened pocket at back of book. Light general wear, bookshop label on back panel of jacket. | £30

George Chapman | The Odysseys of Homer | George Newnes | n.d. | Pocket edition on India paper in lovely bright condition. The top edge of the rear endpaper is lightly crumpled, the topmost corner of the last page is very lightly creased. | £50

Dante | The Convivio of Dante Alighieri | Dent | 1940 | Temple Classics reprint. No jacket. Some wear to edge of boards, most evident at the top. Some foxing to prelims, including frontispiece. | £50

Ian Davie (ed.); Philip Larkin et al (contrib.) | Oxford Poetry 1942-1943 | Basil Blackwell | 1943 | Cover is worn, with some loss around extremities of spine. Corners of slim booklet are bowed. Text pages in very good condition. | £150

Robert Desnos; William Kulik [tr.] | The Voice of Robert Desnos – Selected Poems | Sheep Meadow Press | 2004 | 9781931357944 Very light external wear. | £30

Tim Dlugos; David Trinidad [ed.]; Dennis Cooper [intr.] | Powerless – selected poems 1973-1990 | High Risk | 1996 | 9781852424077 Paper tanned with age, base of spine a little bumped. | £35

Ernest Dowson | The Poems of Ernest Dowson | Unicorn Books | 1946 | No jacket, previous owner’s name on ffep. | £30

Aidan Andrew Dun | Salvia Divinorum | Goldmark | 2007 | 9781870507110 First edition. Stapled pamphlet in jacket, inscribed by author on ffep. | £100

Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Back Roads to Far Towns after Basho | 1971 | 2nd printing, outer edge of page block is foxed, otherwise a very good copy | £35

Jack Gilbert, Jane Hirshfield, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin; Neil Astley (ed.) | Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions 3: Jack Gilbert, Jane Hirshfield, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin | Carcanet | 2007 | 9781852247676 Very light external wear. | £35

Michael Hamburger (tr., ed.) | German Poetry 1910-1975 | Carcanet | 1977 | 085635161X Hardback in price-clipped jacket, first signs of foxing on outer edge of page-block. | £30

Andrew Jordan | St. Catherine’s Buried Chapel | Taxvs | 1987 | Stapled pamphlet. Original price has been crossed out on back cover & a reduced price pencilled on. | £50

Walter Savage Landor | The Hellenics, comprising Heroic Idyls, &c. | Nichol | 1859 | New Edition, Enlarged. Bookplate stuck over outline of larger removed bookplate on front pastedown; ownership signatures on ffep. Some wear to extremities of spine, endpapers etc. foxed. | £30

Robert Lax | New Poems 1962/1985 | Coracle | 1986 | 3922760074 White cover is a little sunned, slightly worn at corners; lower edge of pageblock is a little shelfmarked. | £100

Hugh MacDiarmid; Michael Grieve & W. R. Aitken (eds) | The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid – 2 VOLUME SET | Penguin | 1985 | A good reading set. Cover of vol. I is scuffed & creased, outer tips of pp.1261-1266 of vol. II are folded over. | £30

Helen Macdonald | Shaler’s Fish | Etruscan Books | 2001 | One of an edition of 500. Some wear to cover & edge. Lower corner of back cover creased. Outer edge of page-block foxed. Pencilled crosses in the upper corners of quite a few pages. | £100

Sorley Maclean; Iain Crichton Smith (trans.) | Poems to Eimhir | Gollancz | 1971 | First printing in unclipped jacket. A couple of 1 cm closed tears to the upper edge of the front panel, spine lightly sunned. The original price has been struck through & not one, but two, discounted prices marked on the front flap. | £30

Hugh MacDiarmid | Second Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems | Stanley Nott | 1935 | First edition, no jacket. Yellow cloth cover is a little worn & marked. 1935 ownership signature on ffep. A few page numbers noted in pencil on rear pastedown. | £50

Gerald Malanga | Prelude to International Velvet Debutante | Great Lakes | 1967 | Minor general wear, most evident at corners. | £40

David Mallet: The Works of David Mallet : 3 volumes in 1. Georg Olms 2002 hardback with light wear to cover. £50

F. T. Marinetti | Selected Poems and Related Prose | Yale | 2002 | 9780300041033 Light wear to unclipped jacket from previous storage/display. | £40

Vladimir Mayakovsky | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | Progress | 1976 | A handsome copy in dustjacket. The spine of the jacket is faded, & a little worn at the top. There is some foxing to the pale cloth cover of the book, which has also picked up some very faint offset from the red reverse side of the jacket. There is an old sterling price marked in blue pencil on the first page of the book. | £30

Vladimir Mayakovsky | Plays / Articles / Essays | Raduga | 1987 | Volume three of Mayakovsky’s SELECTED WORKS IN THREE VOLUMES. Very good hardback in jacket. Lower corners of jacket lightly marked. | £50

Charlotte Mew; Val Warner [ed., intr.] | Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems & Selected Prose | Carcanet | 2003 | 9781857547061 Very light external wear. | £30

Frank O’Hara; Donald Allen (ed.) | Selected Poems | Carcanet | 1991 | 9780856359392 First UK edition in unclipped foxed jacket, with some loss around the fold of the spine/back panel. | £30

Douglas Oliver; Alice Notley (ed.) | Arrondissements | Salt | 2003 | 9781844710195 Minor wear to cover & edge, top corners of pp.95-98 have been folded over (does not intrude upon text area). Lower edge of page-block dust-marked. | £100

Douglas Oliver | Kind | Agneau 2; Allardyce, Barnett | 1987 | 0907954057 White cover has picked up some marks, text pages in excellent condition. | £30

Peter Orlovsky | Clean Asshole Poems, Smiling Vegetable Songs | City Lights | 1980 | 1980 second printing. Edge & white areas of cover foxed, faint pencil traces on ffep, text pages in vg condition. | £75

Kenneth Patchen | Hallelujah Anyway | New Directions | n.d. | Hardback with pictorial cover in unclipped jacket. Spine of jacket is faded but fully legible, edges of jacket are worn. Very top of spine of the hardcover is sunned. Pre-decimal sterling price is marked on front flap in pencil. | £40

Kenneth Patchen (illus.), Miriam Patchen (intr.), Herman Berlandt & Neeli Cherkovski (eds) | Peace or Perish: A Crisis Anthology | Poets for Peace | 1983 | Anthology including work by Diane di Prima, Robert Creeley & Allen Ginsberg, inscribed by Herman Berlandt on ffep. Some wear to cover & edge, a couple of small pressure marks on back cover, which have left a faint impression on the last few pages of the book. | £30

Kenneth Patchen; Richard Morgan [ed.] | Still Another Pelican in the Breadbox | Pig Iron Press | 1980 | 0917530144 Previous owner’s rubberstamp on ffep. Light mark on outer edge of page-block. Top corner very lightly bowed. | £30

J. H. Prynne: Sub Songs. Barque 2010. Super colossal stapled pamphlet, light wear to cover. £100

Rendra | Ballads and Blues: Poems | Oxford UP | 1977 | 0196382602 Reading copy with worn, rippled cover & foxed outer edge. Gift inscription on ffep. No problem with text pages. | £30

Kenneth Rexroth | Poetry Readings in the Cellar | audio cd – disc in excellent condition, light wear to cover | £90

John Riley; Tim Longville | What I Own: Versions of Holderlin & Mandelshtam | Carcanet | 1998 | 9781857541755 Very light external wear. | £100

Pedro Salinas; Willis Barnstone (tr.,intr.) | My Voice because of You & Letter Poems to Katherine | Chicago | 2010 | 9780226734262 First printing of this translation in unclipped jacket. Jacket is a little scuffed near the bottom of the fold of front panel/spine, light wear to back panel. Fore-edge is a little worn & marked. | £200

George Seferis; Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard (tr., ed., intr.) | Complete Poems | Anvil | 1995 | 9780856462139 First printing of this translation in unclipped jacket. Jacket is lightly worn & marked, with a diagonal crease to the edge of the front flap. | £30

Iain Sinclair (ed.) | Conductors of Chaos | Picador | 1996 | 9780330331357 Some wear to cover, most evident at foot of spine. Paper tanned with age. | £50

Gary Snyder | Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End | Fulcrum | n.d. | A reading copy. Pale cover is worn & marked, extremities of spine are bumped, top corner is creased, text pages are foxed/marked. | £40

Thomas Southerne / Robert Jordan / Harold Love | The Works of Thomas Southerne : volume 1 | Clarendon Press | 1988. | Volume 1 only. Hardback with lightly scuffed cover. | £50

Alan Spence; Elizabeth Blackadder | Morning Glory – SIGNED BY ELIZABETH BLACKADDER | Renaissance Press | 2010 | 9780954396121 Signed by Elizabeth Blackadder on title page. | £50

Jonathan Swift; Harold Williams (ed.) | The Poems of Jonathan Swift: 3 volume set | Oxford, Clarendon Press | 1966 | Second edition in price-clipped jackets. Pale jackets are rather worn & marked, most evidently on spines. | £35

Alexander Trocchi; William Burroughs [intr.] | Man at Leisure | Calder & Boyars | 1972 | 0714503584 White background of card cover lightly foxed, top of spine lightly bumped, top outer corner of page-block lightly bumped, top outer corner of first page rubbed from the erasure of an old pencilled price, endpapers foxed. Still a good-looking copy. | £30

Derek Walcott | Castaway | 1969 paperback edition, lamination is starting to bubble on the cover, Trinidadian book shop label on reverse of front cover, light reading crease to prelims, no problem with text pages | £30

Lew Welch | How I Work as a Poet | 2001 | some wear to corners, edge foxed, back cover lightly scuffed – text pages unmarked | £50

Yamamoto Kenkichi (ed.) ; William I. Elliot & Nishihara Katsumasa (trs) | The Singing Heart | Hon-no-Shiro | 2018 | 9784901901383 Signed by translator on first page. | £40