durrell lawrence edited (29 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. Book Club Edition. Book club edition. Unclipped dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. 400 pp. A bright clean copy. Attractive bookplate on pastedown. [528].

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Also prints an author's introduction. Cloth edges modestly sunned, near fine in about very good rubbed dust jacket with small chip on spine head, short creased tear on bottom edge on front panel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Modest edgewear, near fine in a good only edgeworn dust jacket with internal tape repair, spine sunned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Edited with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Edges of red cloth and pages lightly soiled, else very good in a good only dust jacket with edges chipped and stained. Marboro Book Club dust jacket.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Cover art by Dwight Ripley. Small quarto. 48pp. About near fine in wrappers with tiny spot on front wrap, small tear and some tanning along the spine. Poetry anthology with contributions from C. Day-Lewis, Lawrence Durrell, James T. Farrell, Theodore Roethke, Stephen Spender, and others.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Also prints an author's introduction. Binding slightly cocked, edges lightly foxed and topstain a bit sunned at the crown, very good in a moderately worn, about very good dust jacket with a short tear on the upper shoulder and a sunned spine (although not as bad as sometimes seen on this title).

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Issue Number One. Slim octavo. 84pp. Printed wrappers with modest rubbing and the spine lightly tanned, near fine. Prints Lawrence Durrell on Sappho and a book review by Hugh MacDiarmid among much else. The Saltire Society was founded n 1936 to promote Scottish culture.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine with a few tiny spots, boards with modest edgewear, very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a small round tear on the spine (affecting the title), tanning, an ink mark on the front flap and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 301-356pp. Perfect bound paper wraps. Slight tanning to the wraps, crease to corner and miniscule chip, about near fine. Poetry anthology with contributions from Lawrence Durrell ("Deus Loci"), Rachel Annand Taylor, Wilfrid Gibson, R.H. Mottram, Wilfred Rowland Childe, Stanley Snaith, D'Arcy Cresswell, Wrenne Jarman, Geoffrey Johnson, Gawsworth, Hugh Gordon Porteus, Phoebe Hesketh, John Heath-Stubbs, David Marcus, George Moor, Arthur Caddick, James Brockway, Theodore Roscoe, Lionel Johnson, and Marvin Magalaner.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, board edges slightly sunned, spine ends bumped, very good in a spine-tanned very good dust jacket with slight foxing and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. FitzClarence (Jacket design) (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, published in the UK in 1960. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. There wasn't an equivalent American edition of this collection. ***Near fine in navy-blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with just light tanning to the paper. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown 'Ex Libris - Alan Anderson' - Alan was the founder of Tragara Press - the small press based in Edinburgh which published from 1954 onwards. Also a pencilled comment which could be erased 'From the library of Alan Anderson, founder of Tragara Press'. Spine tight. Pages clean. ***In a very good red, black and yellow illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 30s net. The dustwrapper is complete, but has some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling (please see scans). Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No serious creases, chips or tears. The red colour on the spine is sun-faded. ***397 pages including Introduction, Preface, Chronology and Bibliography. 220mm x 145mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Lawrence Durrell, Author's Preface, PLACES - The 14th Ward, Paris and Its Suburbs, Dijon, Epidaurus and Mycenae, The Ghetto (N.Y.), Big Sur Invocation. STORIES - Picodiribibi, Reunion in Brooklyn, Max, Goldilocks, Automotive Passacaglia, Berthe. LITERARY ESSAYS - The Universe of Death, Of Art and the Future, Reflections on Writing, The Wisdom of the Heart, Tribute to France. PORTRAITS - Un Etre Etoilique, Hans Reichel, Alfred Perles, Blaise Cendrars. THE MAN HIMSELF - A Commonplace Book of Aphorisms and Ideas. APPENDIX - Defense of the Freedom to Read, Chronology, Bibliography. ***'In 1958, to the surprise of those people who had known of him only as the author of banned books, Henry Miler was elected to the American Institute of Arts and Letters. At that time he was welcomed by his fellow writers as "the veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and his intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our time." ***The material which has been selected by Lawrence Durrell for this representative anthology traces the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller's life work. It includes extracts from a dozen different books including several which are still banned in England: Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Sexus and Plexus.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition in nice collectable condition. An anthology tracing the principal themes of Henry Miller's life work, divided into sections according to the titles; 'Places', 'Stories', 'Literary Essays' and 'Portraits'. Miller contributes a commentary on each essay fitting it into context of his life story. Also includes a chronology of Miller's life, a bibliography and part of an opoen letter protesting the ban of 'Sexus'. Uncommon in this condition now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Periodical. Slim octavo. 93, [3] pp. Text in either French or English (mostly English, as is Durrell's piece). Printed wrappers. Light wear and bottom corners gently bumped throughout, near fine with the printed wraparound band present and a printed publisher's advertisement laid in.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4 - January-February 1941 - the fourth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by Herbert Blackburn. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and red printed stapled covers. The covers are slightly marked and creased, commensurate with age and handling. The front cover is clean and largely uncreased, but the back cover is slightly creased and surface marked (please see scans). Red title to front cover bright. No tears. Spine tight. Internally near fine, with no inscriptions. No marks or significant creasing. No tears. ***36 printed pages plus adverts on the inside covers. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fourth letter by Tambimuttu, dated January 15, 1941; Two poems by Walter de la Mare; On a Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas; A Wartime Dawn by David Gascoyne; Two War Poems by George Scurfield; The Dyke-builder by Henry Treece; In a Time of Crisis by Lawrence Durrell; Reviews, including: Richard Eberhart by Nicholas Moore; T. S. Eliot's East Coker by James H. Kirkup; En Partant Pour Syrie by G.S . Fraser. Four Lyrics by Tambimuttu. ***Also poems by Anne Ridler, Gavin Ewart, Peter J. Little, G. S. Fraser, John Malcolm Brinnin, J. C. Hall and Nicholas Moore. ***Particularly interesting is the perceptive two-page review of T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" (Faber & Faber 1s.) by James H. Kirkup. This issue also contains an essay "The Unconscious: Spirituality: Catastrophe by Pierre Jean Jouve (translated from the French by David Gascoyne). ***Vol. 1. No. 4 - the fourth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, particularly on the front cover. Top corners of pages quite creased, and bottom corners of pages slightly creased. Interior pages clean - just a pencil annotation to p.153 - could be rubbed out if so wished (please see scans). Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean, with just some very light foxing to the front endpaper and pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions - just a small pencil price at the top of the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label to the bottom of the front pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. Top corners of some pages slightly creased - otherwise, no creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Note that this copy has been bound upside down - a rare variant! ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners sharp - just slightly creased lower corners. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with a neat contemporaneous gift inscription in black fountain pen ink to the top of the front free endpaper: 'To my darling wife 12.1.46'. Interior pages clean with no foxing. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is virtually complete, with just some small areas of loss at the top edge. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Fading to the red titles on the spine. Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed, with some browning to the top and bottom margins of the boards. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Unobtrusive very light sporadic foxing to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Some light production creasing to a couple of pages. Interior pages clean. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is complete, which is very unusual for this book - the dustwrapper normally has some loss. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear to the top edge of the front panel, and a couple of closed tears and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper also slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background), and very slightly foxed at the edges. Tiny crease to the bottom corner of the front cover. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Small marks to inside of front cover and contents page, otherwise interior pages clean. The top corner tips of the last few pages are slightly creased. No tears. ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. No. 4/5 (double issue), softcover issue. Tall octavo. 191pp. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket (tipped-on inside the front cover), printed on several paper stocks. Jacket and early (exposed) foredges foxed, and wrappers soiled, middle 20 or so pages (on tan stock) with light but unobtrusive staining, sound and near very good. (Without the fragile outer jacket and sealed flowers, but we are unsure if they were issued with the softcover edition.) Contributions by William Wantling, Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Durrell, Michael Hamburger, Douglas Blazek, d. a. levy, Thomas Merton, Robert Bly, Jackson Mac Low, Jean Cocteau, and many others. Also prints an "Homage to Kenneth Patchen" with contributions by Bro. Antoninus, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, and others. A cool magazine, "Handset, Mostly, & Hand Bound At Loujon's Desert Workshop Printery, Arizona U.S.A. .".

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, with very light sporadic foxing to the fore-edge of the front cover. Interior pages clean. Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition, and this is a very clean largely uncreased copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4 - January-February 1941 - the fourth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by Herbert Blackburn. ***Near fine in the original thin cream, black and red printed stapled covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. No tears. Red title to front cover bright. Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Top and bottom corners of pages just lightly creased. No tears. ***36 printed pages plus adverts on the inside covers. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fourth letter by Tambimuttu, dated January 15, 1941; Two poems by Walter de la Mare; On a Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas; A Wartime Dawn by David Gascoyne; Two War Poems by George Scurfield; The Dyke-builder by Henry Treece; In a Time of Crisis by Lawrence Durrell; Reviews, including: Richard Eberhart by Nicholas Moore; T. S. Eliot's East Coker by James H. Kirkup; En Partant Pour Syrie by G.S . Fraser. Four Lyrics by Tambimuttu. ***Also poems by Anne Ridler, Gavin Ewart, Peter J. Little, G. S. Fraser, John Malcolm Brinnin, J. C. Hall and Nicholas Moore. ***Particularly interesting is the perceptive two-page review of T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" (Faber & Faber 1s.) by James H. Kirkup. This issue also contains an essay "The Unconscious: Spirituality: Catastrophe by Pierre Jean Jouve (translated from the French by David Gascoyne). ***Vol. 1. No. 4 - the fourth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Rare variant with 'The Gotham Book Mart, 51 West 47th Street, N.Y.C.' on the bottom of the front cover, indicating the American distributor of the magazine (please see scans). ***Near fine in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are exceptionally clean. Staples rusted as usual. Internally also near fine - pages clean without any of the usual foxing. No tears. Lower corners just very slightly creased. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Signed by Durrell, Victor Selwyn, John Waller, & Tambimuttu. Book measures 24x16.5.cm. xxxiv,254pp. Bound in original publishers brown hardcover, with gilt title lettering. Slight lean on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket rubbed on edges. Jacket in very good clean condition. Internally, pages clean. A very nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Chilmark Press, New York. 1966. 152 pgs. Illustrated. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Few records of war are a lucid, vivid and sensitively written as Keith Douglas' "Alamein to Zem Zem". The author himself was a man of great poetic gifts who had established himself as a leading light in the Oxford literary circles, tutored by no less a person than First World War veteran and acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden. A talent that did not outlast the war, killed in action in Normandy 1944, but his lasting legacy is contained in this exceptional book. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Near fine in the rarer light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a more common issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. None of the usual rubbing or browning to the boards. Corners sharp with just some creasing to the bottom corner tip of the back board. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. None of the usual foxing - interior pages clean. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is complete, which is very unusual for this book - the dustwrapper normally has some loss. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, but there are no tears and no loss. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper also slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel of dustwrapper really clean (which is unusual, being a white background). Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper - especially in the less commonly found light beige cloth binding. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background). The bottom corner of the page block is slightly creased throughout. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a small black contemporaneous bookseller's label to bottom of first page: 'G. R. Downing, Bookseller, Fore Street, St. Ives, C'. Pages sporadically lightly foxed. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. Lower corners of most pages also lightly creased. The three pages of colour lithographs, including the centrefold, are bright and clean, and are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on normal thick paper (not the thin postwar economy paper as used in comparative Issue No. 9). ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Very nice copy in fragmentary remains of dust-wrapper, bookplate First English Edition of The Henry Miller Reader.