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Paul Bowles; Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.) | Conversations with Paul Bowles | University Press of Mississippi | 1993 | 9780878056507 Minor wear to cover & edge from previous storage/display. | £15.00
Keith Abbott | Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: a brief extract | Beat Scene | 1998 | One of an edition of 100 copies. Crisp pamphlet with rusted staples, old selling price marked on ffep in pencil. | £30
Simon Strong et al | A William Burroughs Birthday Book | Temple Press | 1994 | Stapled pamphlet with worn cover & edge. | £25
Aidan Warlow | Jackdaw No. 137: Lewis Carroll | Jackdaw | 1973 | 305620754 Facsimiles & other loose printed items in folder. The folder is quite worn, the binding at its edges has perished, & the flap is a little marked. The contents are all present & in very good condition. | £30
Erika Ostrovsky | Celine and his Vision | University of London | 1968 | 034008930X Very good hardback in rather worn & price-clipped jacket. | £30
Brian Louis Pearce | Clemo the Poet | Magwood | 2002 | 0946603146 Light wear to cover & edge. | £50.00
L. Sprague de Camp | Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers | Arkham House | 1976 | 870540769 First edition in unclipped jacket, spine a little faded, top edge of page-block foxed. | £35
Wolfgang Kort | Alfred Doblin | Twayne | 1974 |0805722661 No jacket, boards rather worn & marked, outer edge of page-block foxed, no problem with text pages. | £15
Jad Adams | Madder Music, Stronger Wine | I. B. Tauris | 2000 | 9781860644702 Hardback in unclipped jacket. Outer edge of page-block lightly foxed. | £20
T. S. Eliot | For Lancelot Andrewes | Faber | 1970 | 571094198 Light wear to cover. | £15
Constance de Masirevich; Roy Campbell (fwd) | On the Four Quartets of T. S. Eliot | Vincent Stuart | 1965 | Second impression, no jacket, boards lightly marked. | £50
Jane Gallop | Intersections: a reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski | Nebraska | 1981 | 080322110X The upper edge of this book has been exposed to damp at some time. This is clearly evident on the reverse of the dustjacket & on the rear endpaper. There is a faint watermark at the very top edge of the margin of many text pages, but no problem with the main area of the text pages themselves. A few blotchy foxing marks on outer edge of the page-block. This is a useable copy of a hard to obtain book for reading or study. | £25
Naomi M. Garret | The Renaissance of Haitian Poetry | Presence Africaine | unlaminated cover is worn & marked, with a short split & some loss at the top of the spine, edge worn, lower corner bumped, name on ffep, date marked at foot of title page | £25
Jean Marie Goulemot | Forbidden Texts | Polity | 1994 | 9780745610214 Very good hardback in jacket. | £30
Robert Graves | The Common Asphodel | Hamish Hamilton | 1949 | No jacket. Cover rather worn. Name on ffep. The book is slant, with the front cover set very noticeably forward. | £15
Wilson Harris; C. L. R. James (appendix) | Tradition, the Writer and Society | New Beacon | 1967 | Cover & edge of pageblock foxed, lower corner a little bowed, pencil marking in the margins of at least 2 pages. | £80
John Keats; Frederick Page (sel.) | Letters of John Keats | Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press | 1954 | First printing. A World’s Classics pocket edition in unclipped jacket. A couple of creases to spine of jacket, along with a few small ink marks. A few short closed tears to edges of jacket, with a little loss at top of spine & corners. Ownership signature from time of publication on ffep, & a couple of brief pencil annotations in the same handwriting on front fllap & reverse of back flap. Fore edge lightly foxed. Text pages in excellent condition. | £30
Arthur & Kit Knight [eds.] | Beat Angels | the unspeakable visions of the individual | 1982 | 0934660050 cover scuffed, edge rather worn, tea or coffee splash at top of spine, is visible at uppermost inside corner of first & last few pages of the book | £20
Christopher D. Knight, Isabel Cardigos, Jose Gabriel Pereira Bastos | Maidens, Snakes and Dragons: CESIL Papers – 1 | Centre for Symbolism and Imagination in Literature | 1991 | 0951763504 Cover rather worn & marked, outer edge of page-block foxed, one page corner folded over. | £50
S. T. Joshi | H. P. Lovecraft: A Life | Necronomicon Press | 1996 | 9780940884885 First printing. A very evidently secondhand copy, with worn cover & edge. Text pages are unmarked. | £30
Ron Dart | Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades | Prospect | minor wear to cover, most evident at extremities of spine | £15
Lawrence Durrell | The Happy Rock: about Henry Miller | Village Press | 1973 | lower edge slightly bumped | £15
Michael Fraenkel | The Genesis of The Tropic of Cancer | Village Press | 1973 | exaggeratedly tall & narrow book is very slightly bowed, lower edge of cover is a little sunned | £15
Knud Merrild | All The Animals in The Zoo: about Henry Miller | Village Press | 1973 | exaggeratedly tall & narrow book is very slightly bowed | £15
Alfred Perles | My Friend Henry Miller | Neville Spearman | 1955 | at first glance, a very good hardback in unclipped jacket – but the book shows traces of being pored over & lived with: there are a few pencil markings in the margin, what look like light cigarette singe marks in the top corner of a couple of pages, a light splash at the edge of one page of the bibliography | £30
Emil Schnellock | Just a Brooklyn Boy: about Henry Miller | Village Press | 1973 | lower edge of cover is very slightly sunned, a little wear to corners, plain white back cover is marked | £10
Les Murray | A Working Forest | Duffy & Snellgrove | 1997 | 9781875989157 Edge of page-block foxed, remainder stripe on lower edge. | £30
Charles Olson | Additional Prose: A Bibliography on America, Proprioception, & Other Notes & Essays | Four Seasons Foundation | 1974 | cover worn, name on ffep, no problem with text pages | £15
Christine Brooke-Rose | A ZBC of Ezra Pound | Faber | 1971 | 0571091350 First edition in unclipped jacket. White back cover of jacket is a little rubbed and marked, and the spine and edge of the front cover are lightly faded. Name on ffep. | £20
Ronald Bush | The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s Cantos | Princeton | outer edge lightly marked | £20
William Cookson | A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound | Croom Helm | 1985 | hardback in jacket, name on ffep – First edition | £100
William Cookson | Reader’s Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound | 1985 | edge of cover sunned | £40
Michael Heller (ed) | Carl Rakosi: Man and Poet | National Poetry Foundation | 1993 | Paperback. Spine and strip of front cover sunned. Tiny mark on edge of page block. Lower corner slightly bumped. | £25
John Cowper Powys | The Art of Growing Old | Village Press | 1974 | Spine very lightly creased, cover rather worn at the corners, paper lightly tanned with age. Name on ffep. Text pages in very good condition. | £20
John Cowper Powys | Dorothy M. Richardson | Village Press | 1974 | Minor wear to cover & edge, light foxing to pages. | £30
John Cowper Powys; Frances Gregg; Oliver Wilkinson; Christopher Wilkinson | Jack and Frances: two volume set | Cecil Woolf | Both volumes of the Powys-Gregg correspondence, published in 1994 & 1996, in unclipped dustjackets. Some wear to jackets, most evident around folds of vol. I; outer edges of page-blocks foxed, most heavily on vol. I. | £300
[John Cowper Powys]; G. Wilson Knight | The Saturnian Quest | Barnes & Noble | 1964 | A book once owned by Powys acolyte Kenneth Hopkins, with his signature on the ffep. Hardback in rather worn jacket. Flaps of jacket, endpapers & outer edge of page-block are heavily foxed. At least one instance of marginal annotation on text pages. | £20
Gary Snyder | On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion Between Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen | Grey Fox | 1977 | 0912516275 apparently unread copy with light foxing to outer edge | £30.00
Charles Molesworth | Gary Snyder’s Vision | Missouri | 1983 | 0826204147 spine lightly faded, bumped at the top; upper edge of pageblock foxed; top corner of final pages & back cover lightly bowed | £20.00
James Campbell, Gary Snyder | High Peak Haikus: An Interview with Gary Snyder | Beat Scene | 2006 | No. 17 of an edition of 100. | £20.00
Gary Snyder, Julia Martin | Nobody Home | Trinity | 2014 | 9781595342515 lower edge of pageblock dustmarked, one page corner folded over | £10.00
Howard McCord | Some Notes to Gary Snyder’s Myths & Texts | Sand Dollar | 1971 | name on ffep | £15.00
Charles Doyle (ed.) | Wallace Stevens: the Critical Heritage | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1985 | 9780710096470 In unclipped jacket. Edge lightly foxed, upper corner of rear endpaper lightly marked. | £20.00
Clara Watts Dunton | The Home Life of Swinburne | A. M. Philpot | 1922 | Minor wear to extremities of spine, paper foxed, pencil markings in margins, faint tape traces on endpapers. | £15.00
Stefan Themerson | Logic, Labels, and Flesh | Gaberbocchus | 1974 | Front cover set a little forward, author’s name faded on spine, white cover a little marked. | £100
R. S. Thomas | Selected Prose | Seren | 1995 | 9781854111043 Minor wear to cover & edge, most evident at corners of cover. | £20.00
Simon Karlinsky | Marina Tsvetaeva | Cambridge | 1985 | 0521255821 Minor wear to jacket. | £20.00
Paul Valery; Jackson Meadows (ed.) | Moi (Collected Works of Paul Valery Volume 15) | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1975 | 710079117 Remainder sticker on front panel of jacket. Jacket is worn, with loss to edges. Boards are rather worn, & top edges of back cover & spine are bumped. Name on ffep. Lower corners of pp.319-322 are creased, leaving a faint impression on those of the surrounding pages. | £15
Gillian Beer | Virginia Woolf: the Common Ground | Edinburgh UP | 1996 | 9780748608140 Minor wear to cover & edge. | £25
Louis Zukofsky | Prepositions | Horizon Press | 1968 | vg- hardback in jacket, white background of jacket has become discoloured | £25.00
