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Published by Cassell & Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1895
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Strongly bound, dark brown cloth boards with leather spine and corners. Gilt decorations and titles. Some rubbing to spine edges and corners with faded edges. A few watermarks to internal paste down edges. Illustrated throughout by various artists in black and white, colour frontispiece (illustrator).
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Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, 25 Marchmont Street, London W.C.1, 1943
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United KingdomOrlando Booksellers
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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a c…olour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers hardly rubbed or creased at all. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Virtually no creasing and no tears. 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. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth 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 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***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 and exceptionally rare in this near fine 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. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, 25 Marchmont Street, London W.C.1, 1943
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United KingdomOrlando Booksellers
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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a c…olour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers slightly creased and rubbed, with a surface crease across the top corner and a smaller surface crease across the bottom corner of the front cover, and a slight bump to the tail of the spine. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. 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. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth 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 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***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. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator).
