Literary Criticism & Memoirs

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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

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

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

Ron Dart | Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades | Prospect | minor wear to cover, most evident at extremities of spine | £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

Ronald Bush | The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s Cantos | Princeton | outer edge lightly marked | £20

William Cookson | Reader’s Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound | 1985 | edge of cover sunned | £40

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

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