Christopher Middleton Contributors (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 48pp + 4pp card covers. The twenty-first issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories. Drawings by Laurie Preece and Robert McAuley. Mike Foreman has designed the cover. This issue contains seventeen poems. Purple, white and black covers. Staple bound. Touch of shelf wear to top and tail of spine. Dusty fore edge of front cover and also dusty margins of rear cover. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk. Laurie Preece; Robert McAuley (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 48pp + 4pp card covers. The twenty-second issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories. Drawings by Christopher Middleton, John Parsons and Mike Foreman (who has also produced the cover illustration). This issue contains twenty poems. Orange, white and black covers. Staple bound. Light spotting to lower margin of front cover. Dusty edges of rear cover. Otherwise in VG+ condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk. Laid in is a promotional leaflet for The Heritage Book society for Children. Mke Foreman; Christopher Middleton; John Parsons (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 48pp + 4pp thin card covers. The nineteenth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories with drawings by Jeff Nuttal and Klaus Micklitz. Mike Foreman has designed the cover. This issue contains twenty-two poems. Orange, white and black covers. Staple bound. Slightly dusty rear cover. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk. Jeff Nuttal; Klaus Micklitz; Mke Foreman (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol. 87, No. 4 from Poetry magazine. Wraps. Themed "First Appearance Number," it appears that all the contributors in this issue are making their first appearance in the magazine. Further notable because it includes Michael McClure's first publication in general, "2 for Theodore Roethke." As his contributor note says, "Michael McClure is twenty-three years old and lives in San Francisco. His two poems this month mark his first publication anywhere." The famous Six Gallery Reading, during which Ginsberg read "Howl" for the first time, and Gary Snyder read "A Berry Feast," and Michael McClure read as the youngest, was only in October of the preceding year, 1955. In this issue William Carlos Williams also writes on Wallace Stevens. And much more. Very good with sunning to spine and some minor stains to rear cover. Front cover is clean, a nice shade of blue.…

First 25 issues with no. 25 supplement; nos. 6&7 and nos. 11&12 released as double-issues, and issues 13, 19, and 21 separated into three parts, all softcovers. 25 Octavo issues (19cm); stapled pictorial wrappers; black-and-white illustrations. Full pagination available upon request. All issues have modest shelf-wear and light soil, with tiny tears to wrapper edges; overall Very Good. Includes first 25 issues of the literary magazine of verse and reviews, with contributions by Jon Silkin, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Robert Creeley. Publications continued from 1962 to 1972, for 30 issues total. [88738].…