Basil bunting preface (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original black and white illustrated dust-jacket with blue titles, there is some very light wear at spine ends but otherwise fine having been kept in a clear protective sleeve. Book unmarked, unused, as new.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 135pp. Octavo [23 cm] Olive green cloth over boards. In the dust jacket, with a number of small stains to the lower extremities of the front panel, darkening to the spine, and minor chipping to the edges. There is also a 1" slash to the surface of the front panel. Novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) promoted "modernism" and gave it a place in his literary magazine, The English Review, in 1909. Ford's poetry has been admired by Robert Duncan, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Kenneth Rexroth, and Basil Bunting.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition, 8vo., pp. xiii, 235, paperback; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light foxing to prelims and edges, otherwise internally clean, light surface soiling and rubbing to wrappers, overall a very good copy.

First Edition. "Deluxe" issue, no. 40 of 50 numbered and signed copies; printed on blue paper (otherwise indistinguishable from the trade issue, so far as this cataloguer can discern). Small, slim octavo; blue paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 48pp. Fine, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, with no printed price on flap, inconspicuous trace of wear at edges; about Fine. First published collection by the great Tyneside working-class poet, founder and central figure of the Morden Tower Book Room; both muse and mentee to Basil Bunting (who supplied the Preface to this volume) and reputedly a driving force behind the writing of Bunting's masterpiece, "Briggflatts". Perhaps our favorite thing about this book, however, is that the jacket was designed by a very young Ian Dury, later of Blockheads fame, done well before his appearance on the London punk scene, at a time when he was attempting to establish a foothold as a visual artist. A great little book, necessarily uncommon in this limitation. Signed.…