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Overleaf: , Five Eleven Ninety Nine; a poem for the millennium. Illustration by Toni Goffe

Aldington (Richard) The Berkshire Kennet; a poem Peacock‟s Press, Hurst, Reading, [1955]. First Edition. One of 310 copies. Four-page leaflet. Somewhat foxed and a little creased, otherwise a nice copy. £25

Amis (Kingsley) [Poems] Fantasy Press, Swinford, Eynsham, 1954. First Edition. Wrappers. Wrappers slightly marked and ownership stamp at foot of lower wrapper, otherwise a nice copy. Scarce. Fantasy Poets No. 22. £180

Anthology Moments of Truth; nineteen short poems by living poets Keepsake Press, 1965. First Edition. One of 328 copies, only 100 of which were for sale. Wrappers. Spine slightly worn, otherwise a very nice copy. Contributors include Betjeman, Gunn and Hughes. £30

Anthology Our Word: Guerrilla Poems from Latin America Translated by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston. Grossman, New York and Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968. First Edition. Royal octavo. Fine copy in soiled dust-wrapper. Parallel texts in English and Spanish. Apart from one poem by Che Guevara all the work was hitherto unpublished. £25

Anthology. Couzyn (Jeni) (Editor) Twelve to Twelve; poems commissioned for the Camden Festival Poets Trust, 1970. First Edition. One of 100 copies, out of series, signed opposite the title page by the poets who read at the Poetry D-Day, Camden Festival 1970. Large quarto. Fine copy in fine dust- wrapper. Contains poems by , Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Lee Harwood, Tom Pickard, Michael Hamburger, Edward Lucie-Smith, , Jon Silkin and William Plomer. £450

Anthology Correspondences Texts by Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney, W.H. Auden, Emily Dickinson and others. Illustrations by Jane Heather, Richard Evans, Brenda Mayo, Jane Bustin and other Eagle Gallery artists. EMH Arts/Eagle Graphics, 1999. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Wrappers. Fine copy. £10 An artists‟ book based on the music of the contemporary British composer John Woolrich. Poets and artists responses to existing pieces of music and thoughts on the nature of influence are interwoven with texts chosen by Woolrich himself.

Armitage (Simon) Five Eleven Ninety Nine; a poem for the millennium Illustrated with drawings by Toni Goffe. Clarion Publishing, Holybourne,1995. First Edition. One of 499 copies, this being one of 349 signed by the poet, artist and designer. Slim quarto. Printed by the Aldgate Press. Sewn wrappers decorated with an attractive logo designed by the artist. Printed in red and black on grey paper. Fine copy. A very appealing edition of one of the poet‟s longer verses, which evocatively describes a millennium bonfire. The atmospheric and skilful illustrations are well-matched to the text. (See cover illustration). £45

Artinian (Emily) From Ararat to Angeltown New writing from the Armenian writers‟ group Bnagir, with texts by Vahram Martirosyan, Karen Karslyan, Vahan Ishkhanyan, Marine Petrossian, Gohar Nikoghosyan and Violet Grigoryan; English by Margarit Tadevoysan-Ordukhanyan. Life-size photographs of the group are sensitively overlaid by parallel text translations of the writers‟ work, together with a running header transliterating a discussion on the perceived „blockade‟ on contemporary Armenian writing. London, 2005. One of an edition limited to 250 signed copies. Folio. Texts set in Nour&Patria, fonts designed in 2000 by Hrant H. Papazian to address the complexities of bilingual Armenian/Latin typography. Stiff wrappers. Preserved in blue cloth-covered portfolio with linen ties; title blind-stamped on upper board. Fine copy. £130

Bently (John) Deptfordia; mythic land, a book thereof Liver & Lights Scriptorium, London, 1995. First Edition. One of the scarce first copies in this binding. Slim octavo. Painted plaster sculpture of a pirate‟s head on upper cover. Rough paper boards in both adhesive and sewn binding. Fold-out pages, extensively illustrated with strong black-and-white images and coloured linocuts. Shades of blue tissue are interleaved throughout the book reflecting the centrality of the river to Deptford‟s history. A very nice copy, covers somewhat sun-faded. Liver & Lights No. 20. Poems in which “historical figures, places, streets and deeds jostle with current characters and buildings.” £80

Bently (John) Concerning the Poetry of Lost Things (Harrow) A compilation of handwritten texts found on the streets of Harrow, together with one collage and original graffiti by a Harrow resident. Liver & Lights Scriptorium, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. Wrappers. Fine copy. Liver & Lights No. 27. £7.99 Commissioned by Harrow Library, this “museum-case containing a selection of recently excavated literary shards” was banned there after publication, on account of the controversial nature of some of the documents. Bently believed his compilation of texts “could say more interesting, intriguing and possibly more profound things about the people of this specific corner of suburban England than any more conventional documentary procedure.”

Bently (John) Yellow Moon in Brockwell Park. Illustrated. Liver & Lights Scriptorium, 2005. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 100 copies signed by the artist. Small octavo. Orange cloth boards with printed dust-wrapper. Fine copy. Liver & Lights No. 34. £35

Blaga (Lucien) Poems of Light. Versions in English by Oltea Simescu and Eric Williams. Images by Sara Philpott. Old Stile Press, Llandogo, 2002. One of 200 numbered copies, printed in dark blue and black, and signed by the translators and the artist. Imperial octavo. Pictorial boards, with cloth spine. Fine copy. £85. These poems (originally published in 1916) constitute the first collection by this important Romanian poet and philosopher (1895-1961), who was much influenced by expressionist painting, and particularly by Van Gogh. Larga was said to have painted “fiery landscapes seen through the interior eye”. For the present edition a literal was prepared and slowly worked into a poem in English. Sara Philpott‟s images are “a powerful mixture of drawing, monotype and collage” which “resonate perfectly with the atmosphere and moods of the poems”.

Bringhurst (Robert). New World Suite Number Three; a poem in four movements for three voices. Afterword by the author outlining his approach to polyphonic poetry. The Center for Book Arts, New York, 2006. First Edition. One of an edition of seventy-five copies signed by Robert Bringhurst, Hedi Kyle, and Richard Minsky. Three volumes. Folio. Printed letterpress in hand-set display type and „Monotype‟ Dante, arranged by Barbara Henry to Robert Bringhurst‟s specifications. Binding structure designed by Hedi Kyle, each volume forming its own lectern when open. Fine copy. £1,250. In his afterword, Bringhurst, a revered poet and book designer, and author of The Elements of Typographic Style, states that „the printed text should be as fine as it can be, but it should never be the final incarnation. A book must be a place where things begin.‟ This innovative interdisciplinary work is a poem for three voices, to be read simultaneously, and its incarnation involves not only literature, but graphic design, fine binding and performance. This work could be seen as the summit of Bringhurst‟s combined design and semantic/philological powers.

Brown (Bob) [Prospectus for An Anthology of] Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine. Roving Eye Press, Cagnes-sur-Mer, A.M., [1931]. Octavo. Single leaf, printed both sides. Slightly browned and creased, otherwise a nice copy. Very scarce. A prospectus for the anthology of specially written texts in the new style called for by Brown‟s newly invented Reading Machine then “being perfected and ... shortly on the market”. The anticipated contributors included Paul Bowles, Kay Boyle, Nancy Cunard, Jolas, McAlmon, Pound, and Stein. £50

Bunting (Basil) The Spoils; A Poem The Morden Tower Book Room, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Migrant Press, 1965. First Edition. Wrappers. Wrappers a little marked, but a nice copy. Name on fly-leaf. £32

Bunting (Basil) and Zakani (Obaid-e) The Pious Cat Freely translated from the Persian by Basil Bunting. Bertram Rota, 1986. First Edition. One of 200 numbered copies. Quarto. Half cloth, boards, pictorial decoration on upper cover. Fine copy. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, with a ten page reproduction of Bunting‟s holograph, a facsimile of the Persian pamphlet he used, and an Afterword. £50

Campbell (Ken) Horse 1994. One of an edition of 35 examples, privately printed and numbered and signed by the artist. 26 x 18 inches. Polychrome letterpress printed broadside. Fine copy. A text based on a translated Sanskrit song to the horse (and by extension, the universe and nature) is laid out as „a visual chant, a kind of concrete poem with an eye and an ear for repetition and rhythm‟. The poem, printed in heavy sans serif wood type in two colours, each running from one end of the broadside to the other, interlaces with itself and thus plays out typographically ancient cycles of migration and sacrifice. £300

Causley (Charles) Ballad of the Breadman; a poem 1968. First Edition. Broadsheet on stiff yellow card, printed one side only. Fine copy. A poem selected from the then forthcoming Underneath the Water and distributed ahead of publication as a prospectus for that collection. £18

Coon (Anne) Henry James Sat Here Watercolour and ink drawings by Kurt Feuerherm. The Old School Press, Hinton Charterhouse, 2006. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 95 copies, numbered and signed by the author and artist. Quarto. Illustrations laser-printed and text printed letterpress in 14pt Octavian on Somerset paper. Twenty accordion-folded pages, which can be opened for display in a circular or a zig-zag format, enclosed in a neat Japanese cloth case portfolio with bone clasps. Fine copy. In a selection of nine poems, the colour and variety of Siena gracefully consorts with darker reflections on transience. The rich tones and expressive lines of Feuerherm‟s illustrations admirably capture these delicate verses. £150

Clandestine Printing Gay (John) The Fox at the Point of Death Illustrated. The Private Press of the Busy Bee, Holland, 1945. One of an edition limited to 525 numbered copies. 18mo. Printed paper wrappers; printed in red and black. A very nice copy, pages uncut. The moral fable was reprinted in secret in the occupied parts of Holland, during the most severe food shortages of the occupation. £30

Connolly (Cyril) The Unquiet Grave By Palinurus Horizon, 1944 [i.e March 1945]. First Edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies. Original wrappers. Wrappers and backstrip a little darkened and backstrip somewhat worn, but internally a nice copy. £125

Corso (Gregory) Bomb City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1958. First Edition, Second Issue, with Gasoline advertised on verso. Eight page concertina pamphlet folding out to vertical broadside of 24 inches by 7 ½ inches. Some slight spotting but otherwise a very nice copy. An important early Beat poem, the political protest is given added impact by the „mushroom cloud‟ layout of the text. £40

Cotton (John) Out There In Rows. Illustrated with wood-cuts by Rigby Graham. The Happy Dragons Press, Tiptree, 2003. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 100 copies; number five in the „New Garland‟ series. Octavo. Printed paper wrappers. Fine copy. £10

Creeley (Robert) Corn Close; a poem Sceptre Press, Knotting, 1980. First Edition. One of 250 copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. Dedicated to Basil Bunting. £15

Crossley-Holland (Kevin) Moored Man; Poems of North Norfolk Watercolours and etchings by Norman Ackroyd R.A. Enitharmon Editions, 2006. First Edition. One of a limited deluxe edition of 115 copies, this numbered and signed by poet and artist . Quarto. Text designed and set in Collis by Libanus Press and printed at BAS printers. Full cloth, with printed paper label and title gilt to spine, bound in cloth slipcase with a signed and numbered original etching by the artist. Fine copy . Crossley-Holland evokes the „mesh of saltmarshes, tidal creeks, sand dunes, sand-flats and shingle ridges‟ found on the north Norfolk coast through the voice of a mythic character. The Moored Man possesses a virile, brooding, questing philosophy reminiscent of Ted Hughes or Heaney‟s Grendel. £295

Crossley-Holland (Kevin) The Seafarer. Illustrated with woodcuts by Inger Lawrance. Old Stile Press, Llandogo, 1988. One of an edition of 240 copies, signed by the writer and the artist. Octavo. Printed in hand-set Albertus types on Zerkall Silurian. Oriental four-hole binding with printed wrappers, enclosed in cloth portfolio with ribbon ties. Fine copy. A beautiful publication of Crossley-Holland‟s acclaimed translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem. £75

Day Lewis (C.) Christmas Eve; A Poem Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ariel Poem, New Series, 1954. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine copy in publisher‟s envelope. £20

Day Lewis (C.) Going My Way? - a poem Poem of the Month Club, 1970. First Edition. Broadsheet, 11 x 15 inches. Very nice copy. With the author‟s autograph signature. £20

De La Mare (Walter) The Winnowing Dream; a poem Illustrations by Robin Jacques. Ariel Poem, New Series, 1954. First Edition. Wrappers. Very nice copy. With the author‟s initialled autograph presentation inscription to Morchard Bishop [Oliver Stonor] on the title-page. Together with the publisher‟s original envelope, addressed to Morchard Bishop in another hand, and postmarked 12th December 1954; somewhat faded and worn. £40

Di Prima (Diane) Ferlinghetti (Lawrence) This Kind of Bird Flies Backward Cover design by Fred Herko and Mike Weiner, line-drawings by Bret Rohmer. Totem Press, New York, 1958. First Edition. 12mo. Printed paper wrappers. Wrappers slightly yellowed and former crease on lower wrapper but otherwise a very nice copy. £200 Diane di Prima was the founder of Poet‟s Press and Eidolon Editions in New York. This was the author‟s first book, more commonly found in the Paper Book Gallery edition of 1963.

Eaves (Will) Small Hours Dust-wrapper illustrated with a wood engraving of „Mwtawintji Gums‟ by Edwina Ellis. Brockwell Press, 2006. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Octavo. Printed letterpress in Monotype Bembo on Canaletto paper. Wrappers. Fine copy, signed by the author on the title page. The first publication from Brockwell Press. £10

Fainlight (Ruth) 18 Poems from 1966 Turret Books, 1966. First Edition. One of 150 copies. Wrappers. Fine copy. Turret Booklets No. 13. £50

Fainlight (Ruth) Two Fire Poems Sceptre Press, Knotting, 1977. First Edition. One of 150 copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Feinstein (Elaine) At the Edge; a poem Sceptre Press, Rushden, 1972. First Edition. One of 150 copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Ferlinghetti (Lawrence) The Old Italians Dying City Lights Bookshop, San Francisco, 1976. First Edition, Second Printing. Quarto. The text is a reproduction of the author‟s holograph manuscript. A very nice copy with one horizontal fold, upper cover slightly darkened. Author‟s Presentation Copy, inscribed on the upper cover, with a holograph correction to the second line of the poem. One of Ferlinghetti's most important poems of later years, this a significant contribution to the literature documenting the immigrant experience in America. It is sold together with a photocopied typescript (2 pages) of the poem „Expressionist History of German Expressionism‟, a keepsake „History of the Airplane‟ produced to celebrate the dedication of City Lights Books as a Cultural Landmark on October 28 2001, and a photocopy of a poem from The New York Times, inscribed „Op/Ed‟ by the poet. £100

Fuller (Roy) Re-Treads; poems Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1979. First Edition. One of 130 numbered copies. Wrappers. Very nice copy. £30

Gibbs (Barbara) Pawlet 2: Poems Written in Berlin Pawlet Press, Vermont, 1959. One of an edition of 526 numbered copies. Quarto. Printed by Claude Fredericks on Amalfi and hand bound in maroon wrappers with printed paper label on front wrapper. Fine copy in original printed mailing envelope. The Banyan Press was founded in 1946 in New York before its move to Vermont, and published numerous Beat writers such as John Berryman and James Merrill. Fredericks‟ stated mission as a printer was to exercise “a simplicity in design, consistency in execution, and a relentless solicitude for each and every detail.” This publication marks an early issue from his successful pamphlet series. £25

Gowrie (Grey) The Bidden Guest; A Bread and Butter Letter in the Heroic Mould. One of an edition limited to forty copies, hand-printed on deckle-edged paper, signed and numbered by the poet. Folio. Fine copy. Addressed to Vivien Duffield, this skilful pastiche of Alexander Pope casts an astute satiric eye on contemporary culture. £10

Graves (Robert) and Riding (Laura) Prospectus for The Seizin Press Deya, Mallorca, c.1930. Hand-printed on laid paper. 30.5 x 22 cm. A fine copy with one neat central fold. Announces Laura and Francisca, the upcoming „poem-miniature‟ by Riding, and „To Whom Else?‟ by Graves, which „consists of poems and as it were poems [sic] in which the problem of dedication is treated without poetic ambiguity.‟ £15

Gross (Phillip) The Abstract Garden. Wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Old Stile Press, Llandogo, 2006. First Edition. One of an edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed by poet and engraver. Quarto. Fine copy. £125 “This book is a three-way collaboration of the word‟s (the poet‟s) and the image (the engraver‟s) and the space between (the printer‟s/book designer‟s). We were determined it should not be just one art form responding to another.” An edition of new poems by the accomplished poet. The engraved images of landscape and abstract forms are reminiscent of Nash at his haunting best.

Hamburger (Michael) Conversations with Charwomen; a poem Sceptre Press, Rushden, 1973. First Edition. One of 150 numbered copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Hardy (Thomas) Yuletide in a Younger World; a poem Drawings by Albert Rutherston. Faber & Gwyer, Ariel Poems, 1927. First Edition. One of 350 numbered copies on hand-made paper. Thin paper-covered boards. Upper cover severely discoloured, but internally a nice copy. £35

Heaney (Seamus) The Testament of Cresseid; a retelling of Robert Henryson’s poem With an introduction by Seamus Heaney . Illustrations by Hughie O‟Donoghue. Enitharmon Editions, 2004. First Edition. Of an edition limited to 350 copies, this is one of the numbered regular edition, signed by author and artist. Large quarto. Printed by Sebastian Carter at The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. The prelims and introduction are set in Perpetua and the poem is hand-set in Golden Cockerel Roman. Plates of oil paintings reproduced litho at BAS Printers. Full cloth. Fine copy. The plates are directly inspired by passages within the text. Heaney thought Henryson‟s theme would be „commensurate with [the artist‟s]... mastery and gravitas, a combination of detachment and answerability, of intimacy and bigness‟. With

these indisputable qualities, together with

Carter‟s clean printing and design, the dramatic

oil paintings sit gracefully within the intimate

space of the page. £175

Horovitz (Michael) Nude Lines for Larking in Present Night Soho Goliard Press, London, 1965. One of 160 copies. Wrappers. Fine copy. £10

Jennings (Elizabeth) Hurt; a poem Poem of the Month Club, 1970. First Edition. Broadsheet, 11 by 15 inches. Very nice copy. With the author‟s autograph signature. £25

Labé (Louise) and Price (Richard) Lute Variations Rack Press, Kinnerton, 2006. Octavo. One of an edition limited to 100 copies. First Edition. Labé, or La Belle Cordière, first published her Oeuvres in 1555. In this collection two of Labé‟s sonnets are accompanied by English improvisations by Price. £4

Levertov (Denise) Nine Poems Quelquefois Press, California,1996. One of an edition of ninety copies, signed by the poet and the printer Mary Laird. A sumptuous non-adhesive binding constructed of hand-made walnut-crinkled papers and heavyweight cream Rives text paper references the simplicity of the medieval world described by Levertov in this sequence. Fine copy. £125

Lowbury (Edward) The Ring Pardoe Press, Birmingham, 1979. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 135 numbered copies. Octavo. Handset in Spectrum and Castellar and Printed on T & J Kent paper from Turkey Mill. Printed wrappers. Fine copy. A collection of six love sonnets. Lowbury won the Newdigate Prize in 1934 with Fire, A Symphonic Ode. £15

MacBeth (George) Missile Commander; poems Turret Books, 1965. First Edition. One of 150 copies. Wrappers. Fine copy. Turret Booklet, No. 1. £30

MacCaig (Norman) Three Manuscript Poems Facsimile of the author‟s manuscript. Rougemont Press, Exeter, 1970. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Quarto. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15.

MacCaig (Norman) Midnights; a poem Poem of the Month Club, 1970. First Edition. Broadsheet, 11 by 15 inches. Very nice copy. With the author‟s autograph signature. £15

McAlmon (Robert) A Hasty Bunch [Privately Printed, Paris, 1922]. First Edition. One of 300 copies printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. Wrappers. Backstrip slightly creased and worn, but a very nice copy. The author‟s second book. Its title was suggested by James Joyce and it was printed at McAlmon‟s expense and published about a month before Ulysses. Although bearing no publisher‟s imprint, it is in effect the first of the Contact Editions books, the Contact Publishing Company being officially established in 1923. £300

McClure (Michael) and Harman (James) (Eds) Ark II Moby I; Poetry Cross Section Illustrated with half-tone reproductions of work by Ronald Bladen. Privately Printed, San Francisco, 1956-1957. First Edition. Octavo. Printed blue wrappers, stapled . Despite slight sun fading to the wrappers on spine and upper cover and a light stain on the lower cover, this is a very nice fresh copy of a scarce item. „The successor to The Ark, a collection of verse, drawings and articles published in San Francisco in 1947‟ (Editorial). Contains contributions by Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Jonathan Williams, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, Kenneth Patchen, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Richard Eberhart. £50

Mitchell (Adrian) Out Loud; poems Cape Goliard Press, 1968. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. £18

Morgan (Edwin) Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rillie. Enitharmon Press, 2006. First Edition of this selection. One of 120 numbered copies, signed by the author. Printed by the Tragara Press. Octavo. Marbled paper wrappers, printed paper label. Fine copy. The poet‟s homage to a colleague in the English Department at Glasgow University is accompanied by a birthday tribute to Ian Hamilton Finlay and „Conversation in Palestine‟. Morgan writes „Many things come together in this remarkable book‟ - not least of which is the choice of a Scottish printer, the redoubtable Alan Anderson, who accepted this commission while in retirement, having decided he would print no more after the publication of his bibliography in 2006. £35

Motion (Andrew) A Long Story Illustrated with wood engravings by Simon Brett. The Old School Press. Hinton Charterhouse, 2001. First Edition. One of 230 numbered copies signed by the poet and artist. Quarto. Quarter cloth, with Larroque hand- made paper over boards. Fine copy. A fine production, this poem by the British Poet Laureate is the fifth in a series of six volumes celebrating the work of contemporary British poets. £72

Munro (Harold) Seven Rhyme Sheets from The Poetry Bookshop Second Series Alexander Pope: On a Certain Lady at Court (No. 3); Michael Drayton: The Parting (No. 7); Thomas Flatman: The Sad Day (No. 10); Shane Leslie: Bog Love (No. 11); William Blake: Love‟s Secret (No. 13); Harold Monro: The Rebellious Vine (No. 15); Ralph Hodgson: A Song (No. 24) Illustrated in colour by John Nash (No. 3), Claud Lovat Fraser (No. 7, 10, 11, 13, and 24) and James Guthrie (No. 15). The Poetry Bookshop, 1921. Approximately 13 x 7 inches. Contained within a portfolio with decoration on the upper cover, possibly designed by a previous owner. Despite some light creasing these are fine copies. Woolmer B2:3;7;10;13;15;24. £300

Neruda (Pablo) We Are Many Parallel text with translation by Alistair Reid. Front wrapper bears silhouette cut-out by Jim Dine; photographs of Neruda and the view from his desk by Hans Ehrmann. Cape Goliard, London, 1968. Second Edition. 12mo.Wrappers, in original glassine wraps. A very nice copy, despite slight impression on upper wrapper and tear to glassine wrap at head of spine. £20

Patten (Brian) The Homecoming; poems Turret Books, 1969. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. Wrappers. Very nice copy. With the author‟s autograph presentation inscription above his signature on limitation leaf. £70

Pearlberg (Gerry Gomez) Radiance and Repose: Portrait of My Neighbor’s Tree in Bloom and Litany at Dusk. Z‟roah, New York, 2003. First Edition. One of an edition limited to fifteen sets, signed by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Roni Gross and Peter Schell. Folio. A two accordion book set designed by Roni Gross. Portrait of My Neighbor‟s Tree in Bloom (quarto), set in Diorama, printed on Bockingford, with scarlet Moriki paper used in the central panel drawing by Peter Schell. Litany at Dusk (oblong quarto) is designed to be read as a hanging broadside, 70” in length, set in Diorama and printed on Shikoku paper. Both books are bound in Japanese cloth with title gilt on upper board. The two books are housed side by side in a square cloth clamshell box with a printed paper label. Fine copy. £650

Plath (Sylvia) American Poetry Now Edited by Sylvia Plath. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, No. 2, [1961]. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. A selection of twenty-six poems by eighteen poets, with a very brief introduction by the editor. The poets include Creeley, Denise Levertov, Merwin, Nemerov, Adrienne Rich and Anne Sexton. £15

Plomer (William) The Planes of Bedford Square; a poem The Bookbang, Bedford Square, 1971. First Edition. Eight-page leaflet, folded. Fine copy. Printed on an Albion Press during the course of the „Bookbang‟ celebrations in Bedford Square. £18

Read (Herbert) Naked Warriors; poems Cover design by David Bomberg. Art and Letters, 1919. First Edition. Covers somewhat soiled and marked and slight split at foot of spine, but internally a very good copy. £75

Redgrove (Peter) The Fortifiers, the Vitrifiers and the Witches; a poem Sceptre Press, Knotting, 1977. First Edition. One of 150 numbered copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Redgrove (Peter) The white, night-flying moths called souls; a poem Sceptre Press, Knotting, 1978. First Edition. One of 150 numbered copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Ridler (Anne) A Dream Observed and other poems Poetry London, [1941]. First Edition. Wrappers. Staples rusted and some foxing throughout, but a nice copy. PL Pamphlets No 2. £20

Rimbaud (Arthur) Boat Trip. Woodside Press, Brooklyn, 2006. First Edition. One of an edition limited to seventy numbered copies, signed by the translator, Nancy Campbell. Hand-printed in Garamond on Kitakata paper and bound in Japanese sewn wrappers with excised design. Fine copy. A modern rendition of Arthur Rimbaud‟s poem „Le Bateau Ivre‟. £30

Rimbaud (Arthur) Le Bateau Ivre / The Drunken Boat Translated from the French by John McGonigle. Russell Maret, New York, 2002. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered by the translator. Octavo. Parallel text set in Quadraat, hand-printed on Durotone Aged Newsprint Paper, and hand-bound in wrappers. Fine copy. The third volume in the chapbook series, Poetry in Translation. £38

Rodker (John) Poems Wrapper design by David Bomberg. [Privately Printed for and] To be had of the Author, 1 Osborn Street, Whitechapel, [1914]. First Edition. Printed by Hazel, Watson & Viney, Ltd. Wrappers. Very slight foxing to preliminaries and edges of some leaves, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy. The author‟s scarce first book. £450

Scannell (Vernon) Meeting in Manchester ... for Edmund Blunden; a poem Sceptre Press, [Knotting], 1974 First Edition. One of 200 copies. Thin white card, octavo, printed one side only. Fine copy. Printed as a tribute to Edmund Blunden. £15

Shuttle (Penelope) The Dream; a poem Sceptre Press, Knotting, 1975. First Edition. One of 150 copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Shuttle (Penelope) Four American Sketches; poems Sceptre Press, Knotting, 1976. First Edition. One of 150 copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Silkin (Jon) „Air that pricks earth...’; a poem Sceptre Press, Rushden, 1973. First Edition. One of 150 copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Silkin (Jon) The Lapidary Poems Sceptre Press, Knotting, 1979. First Edition. One of 150 copies, this unnumbered. Wrappers. Fine copy. £15

Smith (Patti) and Verlaine (Tom) The Night. Aloes Books, 1976. Second Impression. Signed. Octavo. Stapled wrappers, 16 pages. „Cover and title page design after an 1896 edition of Rimbaud‟s Les Illuminations.‟ Text printed in Baskerville with decorative flourishes in red ink. Wrappers somewhat stained and creased, pages evenly yellowed as usual, but otherwise this is a nice copy and an extremely scarce survival of one of Patti Smith‟s earliest works. Signed by Patti Smith on the title page. £300 The text was co-authored by Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine (who fronted the band Television), each writing alternate verses. The former lovers collaborated on numerous other occasions: Verlaine contributed to the composition of „Break it Up‟ and played guitar on the recording of the song for Smith‟s iconic album Horses. This second impression was issued very shortly after the first limited edition of 500 copies in July 1976.

Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay Siixha / Floating Overhead; The Qquuna Cycle 3.3. Translated from the Haida by Robert Bringhurst. Russell Maret, New York, 2007. First Revised Edition. One of an edition limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered by the translator. Tall 8vo. Designed and printed in Seria by Russell Maret and bound in printed wrappers by Judy Ivry. Fine condition. The Qquuna Cycle is the longest extant work of classical Haida literature and perhaps the greatest literary monument in any Native North American language. This edition by Russell Maret, with the translator‟s textual revisions, is exemplary in its design and production as indeed befits a publication from the writer of The Elements of Typographic Style. £65

Spender (Stephen) Art Student; a poem Poem of the Month Club, 1970. First Edition. Broadsheet, 11 x 15 inches. Very nice copy. With the author‟s autograph signature. £25

Szirtes (George) Mirrors. Illustrated with mirrored female profile constructed and designed by Ronald King. Circle Press, 2005. One of 100 copies signed by poet and printer. Quarto. Wrappers. Fine copy . £60.

Tarn (Nathaniel) The Beautiful Contradictions Illustrated with graphics by Verifax collage. Cape Goliard Press, London, 1969. First Edition. One of fifty copies signed by the author. Quarto. Cloth with a vivid dust-wrapper of purple Japanese paper, enclosed in a slipcase. Dust-wrapper slightly rubbed but still bright and fresh, otherwise in fine condition. £50

Thomas (R.S.) Frieze Babel, Schondorf am Ammersee, 1992. First Edition. Of an edition limited to 500 copies, this is one of 100 hardbound copies signed and numbered by the author on the colophon. Slim quarto. Half-cloth with deep blue Ingres paper; text printed in Bodoni at Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, on deckle-edged Magnani paper. Fine copy. £125

Thorp (Jane) 5 Poems No Two Basement Editions, Reigate, 1999. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 100 copies, signed by the author and John Spencer, the printer. Oblong Folio. Handset in Baskerville and Gill Sans and printed on Zerkall mould-made on an Albion Press. Stiff wrappers with outer mylar sleeve. Fine copy. One of the poems is dedicated to the printer, comprising „an unfinished conversation with John Spencer‟. Loosely inserted at the front of the volume is a polychrome relief print incorporating the printer‟s hand, printer‟s „flowers‟ and striking woodgrain and brushstrokes. The quality of the printing and of the writing is exemplary. £35

Farrer (Julia) Thurman (Judith) Lo EMH Arts Publications, 2001. First Edition. One of an edition limited to fifteen copies signed and numbered by the artist. 60.5cm x 13.5cm. Intaglio and letterpress on Moulin de Gue paper; the paper is incised and sculpted to form an abstract architectural design down the book‟s centrefold. Accordion structure loosely enclosed in cloth-covered casing, with matching slipcase. Fine copy. £750 Judith Thurman is a contributor to 'The New Yorker' magazine and the acclaimed author of biographies of Isak Dinensen and Colette. The poem published in the present work has a restrained elegance, which is echoed in the book's aesthetic. The minimal text is presented running down pages of totemic height; as it is read the letterforms and line shapes acquire an architectural grandeur. The book artist Julia Farrer has created an impressive work in which the precision of execution and the sparse, skeletal purity of the construction are lightened by intricate gradations of etched grey line and seductive folds of card printed in tones of pink.

Valentine (Jean) Strange Lights The five „Hospital‟ poems are accompanied by illustrations by Peter Schell. The Center for Book Arts, New York, 2005. First Edition. One of an edition of 100, signed and numbered by the author. 12mo. Book designed by Roni Gross; letterpress printed and hand-bound in altered wrappers of Chautaura Lokta and Mulberry paper at The Center for Book Arts. Fine copy. £20

Voznesensky (Andrei) Dogalypse; San Francisco Poetry Reading Illustrated with photographs of the event taken by Beth Bagby. City Lights, San Francisco, 1972. First Edition. Number 29 in the Pocket Poets series. 12mo. Wrappers. A very nice copy with one small tear on lower wrapper, signed by the author on the half-title. A selection of poems recited by the „stray Moscow mutti‟ at Project Artaud, San Francisco, on October 22 1971. £25

Warner (Sylvia Townsend) Two poems Displays the poems „East Anglia‟ and „Song from a Masque‟, typeset in Gill Sans on light paper. Grasshopper Broadsheets No.3 Series 4, 1945. 30.5 x 20 cm. Fine copy. £15

Williams (C.K.) Interrogation II; after the painting by Leon Golub The Center for Book Arts, New York, 2004. One of 150 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Oblong quarto. Text set in Bembo and Chicago, and letterpress printed on Nepali paper. Designed and printed by Roni Gross; bound in wrappers, the inner pages utilising a three-fold hinge structure to suggest the voices of separate interrogators. Fine copy. £30

Yeats (W.B.) Three Things Drawings by Gilbert Spencer. Ariel Poems, [1929]. First Edition. Wrappers. Wrappers slightly faded, otherwise a very nice copy. £25