Beecham Audrey (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Pages tanned with spotting. DJ is toned with little wear.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Printed wraps. Single issue of this little magazine featuring an article on Mallarme; paintings by Paul Klee; poetry by Audrey Beecham, etc. GOOD condition. General fading and toning to the wrappers. Faint dampstain to the lower rear cover. Minor curling and creasing along the edges.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 76 pages. "The Ruins," by Laurence Binyon; "Sea-Scape" by Audrey Beecham; "Kirkwall 1942" by Anne Ridler; "Bread & Butter and Architecture" by John Summerson; "The Wicked Baronet" by Logan Pearsall Smith; "Mallarme" by Raymond Mortimer; "Memories of Paul Klee" by Jankel Adler; "The Freedom of Necessity--III" by Archimedes. Illus. w/ 2 architectural photos and 2 paintings by Paul Klee.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. x, 66pp. Red cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. 8vo. 2cm light scratch on front board. Spine heel bumped. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated 13.10.76. A few pen corrections through volume. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine heavily sun-faded, very light chipping at ends. Dust jacket covers have light chipping at corners and light wear along top edge, not price-clipped. Dust jacket interior moderately tanned along spine. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 66pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-seven poems; the author's first book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket is has shelf wear top and bottom with slight foxing to edges. Not price clipped. Red cloth boards. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Spotting to top page edges. Dedicated by Audrey Beecham and dated 1966. 8vo. A good small collection of her poetry.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Poet's first book. 66 pages. In unclipped dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 66 pages of a collection of new poems and the first by this poet. Red cloth and pages all near fine the covers of the wrapper have a little handling and a tiny closed chip at bottom edge. Small slim octavo. 1957. *Admired by Kathleen Raine and found in other poetry magazines and anthologies, this is her1st published single poet collection. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, 66 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.63-126. Publisher's card wraps, stapled. Cover design by Henry Moore, decorations by John Craxton. Neat ownership to inside of front cover, edges toned, some rubbing to spine and the edges of the covers, some toning to rear panel. Very good.…

First Edition. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper to Bertram Rota In the printed text on the dust-wrapper, Kathleen Raine expresses her admiration for Beecham's poems, saying that they are reminiscent of the paintings of Paul Nash.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol.2, No.8 - the eighth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with the Henry Moore designed colour cover illustration of The Lyre Bird. This is an exceptional copy in virtually fine condition - a very rare wartime survivor. ***Near fine in the original colour illustrated stapled card covers. The covers are exceptionally clean, even the white back cover. Light creasing to the bottom corner tips of the last few pages. Slight splitting to the paper at the top of the spine. Staples rusted as usual. Internally also near fine - pages clean with hardly any of the usual foxing. A few marks and light creases - mainly production creasing as very thin paper was used (wartime paper restrictions were in force). No tears. The centre-spread of illustrations is printed on higher quality cartridge paper. Spine tight. ***64 pages (plus adverts on inside of front cover, and to make the maximum use of the covers, continuation of text on both sides of the back cover. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Kenneth Allott: The Memory of Yeats; Audrey Beecham: Poem; Laurence Clark: To the Muse, Memo, First Fortnight of War; Stephen Coates: Poem; G. S. Fraser: To a Scottish Poet, Syntax and Imagery in Poetry; Robert Gittings: September 3rd, 1939; W. S. Graham: Here Next the Chair, I, No More Real than Evil, Who, With a Pen; Keith Douglas: The Prisoner; Geoffrey Grigson: Journey in May, The Well in the Valley; John Hall: The Fairs, No Mercy; John Heath-Stubbs: Elegy in a Town Churchyard; Sean Jennett: Spring Tide, Andromeda and Perseus, Missing; Sidney Keyes: The Uncreated Images, Two Variations, Seascape, Rome Remember; Francis King: On a Child's Hand, Endymion and the Moon; Patricia Ledward: Air Raid Shelter; The Corn Ripens; Emanuel Litvinoff: What do You Look for in World, in War?, Passover; H. B. Mallalieu: Excerpt from a Play; Fred & Senta Marnau: Red and Black; Nicholas Moore: Requiem; Norman Nicholson: Before I was Born; Barbara Norman: Song of the Mary who Did Not Turn Back, For the Children of Eve; Robert Payne: The Persian Boy, A Song for Yao and Shen, The Chinese Solder Speaks of Death; Francis Scarfe: The Pearl of Life, Ode to Christ; Terence Tiller: The Acid of the Heart, On One Side Lay the Ocean; Vernon Watkins: Sonnets of Resurrection; George Woodcock: Song from the North, Spoken in Love; David Wright: Illusions Perdues, For George Rapp; Points of View: The Poet as Critic by Kathleen Raine; Poets and Journalists by Francis King; Time and the Poet by George Woodcock; A Book of New Lyric by Derek Stanford; Cover by Henry Moore. ***Vol. 2. No. 8 - the eighth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during 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. Issue No. 8 was the second of the series to have a full colour cover, and be expanded from 36 to 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. A superb example of this magazine. ***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. Henry Moore (Colour cover design) (illustrator).…