Edited by Ruthven Todd (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A standard copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean but has yellowed. Picture boards are good. Dust jacket has edge wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 77pp. Printed wrappers. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, covers with light edgewear, very good in publisher's wraparound band. Index to volume four laid in. Includes an essays on T.S. Eliot by John Wain and Joyce Cary by Andrew Wright; additional contributions by John Holloway, Samuel Selvon, Ruthven Todd, Robert Nye, Jack Carey and more. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 88, Number 5. P. 287-349. Printed pink wrappers. Light soiling on wraps, slightly toned spine, very good. Contributions by: Ted Hughes, Paul Engle, George Barker, Ruthven Todd, Paul Goodman, Neil Weiss, William Abrahams, Marvin Solomon, and more.

hardback, 8vo, 58pp, slight browning, owner's name on endpaper corner, otherwise clean and tight, printed board covers, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1947. 19.5x12.5cm. 58 pages. Clean & tight book. Front end paper has an inscription. No other inscriptions. Jacket has edge wear, a darkened spine and a few tears. Front flap is price-clipped. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref o1.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. binding tight, no markings dj has shelf wear, sticker mark edge chipping & some soiling. . F3 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 184pp, pages browning throughout, text otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, cream cloth, covers browned and somewhat soiled, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Nos. 9-16 in 6 vols. Bound in original green cloth (arranged by the editor) with original wraps bound in. Includes index for this volume. Near fine. Contents fine and in excellent condition. This volume covers the 2nd year of the magazine. Issue 12/13 is the special on American poetry.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 2 - April 1939 - the second issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Illustrated within the text by Edwin Smith. Cover design by Hector Whistler. ***Near fine in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no significant creases or tears. Internally also near fine without marks or creasing. No inscriptions. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***32 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: George Barker: The Death of Yeats; Tambimuttu: Second Letter; Idris Davies: Love Poem; H. B. Mallalieu: The Photograph; Laurence Whistler: October Call; Clifford Dyment: The Eyes, A Daughter of Music, Summer, Movements in Spring; Paul Potts: Michael Gold to Thornton Wilder, Twentieth Century God; Inside; Louis MacNeice [translated by]: First Chorus from the Hippolytus of Eurpides; Maurice Carpenter: Sleep Turning; Tambimuttu: Four Ceylonese Love Songs; David Gascoyne: The Last Hour, De Profundus, Lachrymae, Ex Nihilo; Charles Madge: Flight of the Margarine; George Barker: Elegy No. 3; Ruthven Todd: Christopher Wood; Stephen Spender: The Human Situation; Glyn Jones: Night; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Dorian Cooke: Gethsemane Poem; Reviews; Correspondence - includes congratulatory letters from Dylan Thomas and Lawrence Durrell etc.; Books Received; Poetry London Twice a Year adverts to the inside of rear cover. ***Poetry (London) was called simply "Poetry" when the magazine initially came out. ***Vol. 1. No. 2 - the second issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in April 1939, in nice collectable condition. This pre-war second issue of Poetry (London) magazine is scarce - all the Poetry (London) magazines are very fragile productions, and seldom found now in such clean condition. A magazine now over 80 years old. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***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. Hector Whistler (Cover design), Edwin Smith (illustrations) (illustrator).…