Poetry | Invisible Books

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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