
Poetry
JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems
London: Constable, 1964
Small 8vo, pp. 53. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TONY AND JUNE TILLINGHAST:... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEANEY, Seamus
Wintering Out
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 80. Original printed card wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This issue precedes the hardbound edition.
This,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
(BAUDELAIRE, Charles) (illus. NOLAN, Sidney) (trans. LOWELL, Robert)
The Voyage:
London: Faber, 1968
4to, pp. 60. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Two brochures for the Sidney Nolan Trust laid in.
First ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. HUGHES, Ted] PLATH, Sylvia
Collected Poems
London: Faber, 1981
8vo, pp. 351. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, photographic portrait of Plath to front panel.
First UK edition, softbound issue, INSCRIBED... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. GRIGSON, Geoffrey]
New Verse
London: Drummond, 1933-1939
34 issues in 32. Small 8vo. Stiff paper wrappers. Red wraparound band to Auden double issue (26-27), perforated subscription forms to many... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[COGHILL, Nevill] SCAIFE, C.H.O.
A Collection of Books by C.H.O. Scaife, from the Library of Nevill Coghill
V.p.: V.p., V.d.
C.[hristopher] H.[enry] O.[ldham] Scaife [1900-1988] was a contemporary of Coghill's at Oxford, and remained a lifelong friend. Professor of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"collected" works is now occupying me, and I find it inexplicable that he should suddenly have written work of such power after so many slighter things. And as he is alive still and blind, it is very hard to avoid an obituary note! He is a year younger than me.'
vi) More Poems for the Speaking Voice [Florence: N.p., 1983]. First edition, no. 118 of 250 copies signed by the author. No other inscriptions.
JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems Two
London: Trigram Press, 1972
Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.
First trade edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. SANDERS, Ed]
Fuck You
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964
4to, 55 pink, purple and orange mimeographed leaves, unpaginated, secured by staples running the length of left edge.
First edition. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. SANDERS, Ed]
Fuck You
New York: Fuck You Press, 1963
4to, 46 pink mimeographed leaves, unpaginated, secured by staples running the length of left edge.
First edition. Issue Number 9 of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[contrib. AUDEN, W.H.]
Public School Verse
London: Heinemann, 1924
Small 8vo, pp. 38. Original grey three-quarter boards, printed spine label.
First edition. One of only 500 copies, and Auden's first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Spain
London: Faber, 1937
8vo, pp. 12. Original red stiff paper wrappers with foldover flaps. Partly unopened.
First edition.
Auden donated all royalties from ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, R.S.
The Bright Field/Das Helle Feld
Munich: Babel, 1983
8vo, pp. 20. White pamphlet, lettered in black to front and rear panels, stapled in to unprinted dark blue oversized wrappers.
First edition.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. SCOTT, Laurence] AUDEN, W.H.
Marginalia
Cambridge, Massachussetts: Ibex Press, 1966
Oblong 8vo, 20 pp.
First edition. One of 150 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, LAURENCE SCOTT.
HEGLEY, John
Uncut Confetti
London: Methuen, 2006
8vo, pp. 85. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers with fold-over flaps.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ALAN RICKMAN: .... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEANEY, Seamus
Land
London: Poem of the Month Club, 1970
Single sheet broadside, 11" x 15".
One of 1000 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Founded in 1970 by Jack H. Clark and Winston Fletcher, the Poem of the Month Club sought to publish new work by leading poets, work which was to be signed by the authors and presented on high-quality materials suitable for display. Roy Fuller and C. Day-Lewis acted as recruiting sergeants for the enterprise (and were also part of the roster themselves), and the print run for each poem was 1000 copies.
A lovely example.
AUDEN, W.H.
Spain
London: Faber, 1937
8vo, pp. 12. Original red stiff paper wrappers with foldover flaps. Partly unopened.
First edition. English literary scholar Nevill Coghill's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEANEY, Seamus
Door Into The Dark
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 56. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First paperback edition of Heaney's second commercially published collection, first published in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LARKIN, Philip
The Whitsun Weddings
London: Faber, 1964
8vo, pp. 46. Original deep red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition. Published in February 1964 in an edition of ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
