Lawrence Durrell Contributors (27 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in wrappers.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Volume XVII, No. 102, June 1948. 75 pp. Vol. XVII, Number 102, June 1948 only! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Damage to lower spine. Slightly discolored front cover along fore and bottom edges.

Illustrated wraps, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 118+ pp., b/w illustrations. VG+ (some sunning of spine, else fine). Contains an interview of Lawrence Durrell and contributions by William Styron, Harold Norse, James Dicky and others. (3214014).

Wraps. Condition: Good. 8vo, 64 pp. Wrappers worn, chipped and stained, pages tanned. Contributors include Lawrence Durrell, alexander Blok and Paul Rosenfeld.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Nice copy.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Very good in magenta and yellow card wrappers with flat spine. Covers nice and clean, with just some light marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling. Contents very good and clean. 255mm x 185mm. 96 pages plus two pages of adverts on the inside covers. ***This issue includes first publication of extracts from the revised edition of 'Conversations with Kafka' by Gustav Janouch, as well as 'Going Into Europe - Again - A Symposium Part III', an article about Britain's possible entry into the E.E.C., and new verse by Peter Porter, D. J. Enright, Gavin Ewart, Elizabeth Jennings. ***'The first - and incomplete - edition of Gustav Janouch's memoir of Kafka was published in 1951, and it immediately took its place as a valuable and fascinating source-book for literary research. Yet for many years the author was unhappy with the version, the fragmentation of which he thought was the fault of Max Brod to whom the original manuscript had been sent. But in this he was mistaken. As it turned out, a large part of the original text - which was based on Janouch's youthful diaries and his manuscript "Treasury of Ideas" - had never been sent off to Brod for publication. Janouch was at the time (1947) under arrest in a Prague prison; and although he was innocent, his wife had burned his papers during the year-long interrogations. As Janouch writes in a post-script to a new edition(shortly to be published by Andre Deutsch in London, and New Directions in New York), "The mutilated book became a spiritual torment to me. I was an important witness who refused to testify." Luckily enough, a missing copy of his old "Treasury of Ideas" (originally put together two years after the death of Kafka in 1924) did turn up in a dilapidated old cardboard box on the bookshelves of the lavatory of Janouch's old house in Prague's Nationalstrasse. These papers included the missing sections of his "Conversations with Kafka" --- "Max Brod had not wilfully bowdlerised my book. He had not omitted or supressed a single paragraph. I had been unjust to him for years." The following extracts (translated by Goronwy Rees) are from this new, and previously missing, material. The self-caricature (on p.19) and the other drawings in the text are from Kafka's own notebooks.' [Taken from notes accompanying the article] ***'Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. It was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal, originally associated with the anti-Stalinist left. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication" intended to counter the idea of cold war neutralism. The magazine was rarely critical of American foreign policy and generally shaped its content to support the geopolitical interests of the United States government. The launch of Encounter was sponsored by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was an organization of largely centre-left artists and intellectuals founded in 1950. It was dedicated, in line with its title, to countering on behalf of the non-communist West the overtures and influence in culture of the Soviet Union, still under the Communist Party rule of Joseph Stalin until 1953. Encounter celebrated its greatest years in terms of readership and influence during the 1960s, under Melvin J. Lasky, who succeeded Kristol in 1958, and would serve as the main editor until the magazine ceased publication in 1991. [Wiki] ***A very good copy of this famous literary magazine, which includes the first publication of extracts from the revised edition of 'Conversations with Kafka' by Gustav Janouch'. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A near-fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($12.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. An attractive copy, of erotic selections from John Cleland, Jean Genet, Philip O'Connor, Henry Miller, Chester Himes, Beardsley & Glassco, Lawrence Durrell, William Burroughs, Maxwell Kenton, Paul Ableman, Gregory Corso, George Bataille, James Sherwood, J.P. Donleavy, Akbar Del Piombo, Roger Casement, Pauline Reage, C.H. Ford, P. Tyler, Marquis de Sade, Raymond Queneau, Samuel Beckett, and more. Anthologies.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Publisher's tribute-book, stated to be a Limited Edition of 3,000 copies - of which only 750 were issued on publication; this an un-numbered copy (probably a later issue as the cover is dated 1947). Quarto-size, 176 pages (xiv, 162) on stock of differing colours, one or two black-and-white illustrations; publisher's buff paper-covered boards printed in sepia and black; backed in untitled grey cloth; white dust-jacket: Very Good, no marks of previous ownership; jacket rather tired. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4 - January-February 1941 - the fourth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by Herbert Blackburn. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and red printed stapled covers. The covers are slightly marked and creased, commensurate with age and handling. The front cover is clean and largely uncreased, but the back cover is slightly creased and surface marked (please see scans). Red title to front cover bright. No tears. Spine tight. Internally near fine, with no inscriptions. No marks or significant creasing. No tears. ***36 printed pages plus adverts on the inside covers. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fourth letter by Tambimuttu, dated January 15, 1941; Two poems by Walter de la Mare; On a Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas; A Wartime Dawn by David Gascoyne; Two War Poems by George Scurfield; The Dyke-builder by Henry Treece; In a Time of Crisis by Lawrence Durrell; Reviews, including: Richard Eberhart by Nicholas Moore; T. S. Eliot's East Coker by James H. Kirkup; En Partant Pour Syrie by G.S . Fraser. Four Lyrics by Tambimuttu. ***Also poems by Anne Ridler, Gavin Ewart, Peter J. Little, G. S. Fraser, John Malcolm Brinnin, J. C. Hall and Nicholas Moore. ***Particularly interesting is the perceptive two-page review of T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" (Faber & Faber 1s.) by James H. Kirkup. This issue also contains an essay "The Unconscious: Spirituality: Catastrophe by Pierre Jean Jouve (translated from the French by David Gascoyne). ***Vol. 1. No. 4 - the fourth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of 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 in any 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.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, particularly on the front cover. Top corners of pages quite creased, and bottom corners of pages slightly creased. Interior pages clean - just a pencil annotation to p.153 - could be rubbed out if so wished (please see scans). Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of 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 in any 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean, with just some very light foxing to the front endpaper and pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. 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. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions - just a small pencil price at the top of the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label to the bottom of the front pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. 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. Top corners of some pages slightly creased - otherwise, no creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in paper-covered boards with shelf wear and wear at the spine extremities and offsetting on the endpapers and very good dust jacket with chips at the spine extremities, faded spine, crease and relatively light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Note that this copy has been bound upside down - a rare variant! ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners sharp - just slightly creased lower corners. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with a neat contemporaneous gift inscription in black fountain pen ink to the top of the front free endpaper: 'To my darling wife 12.1.46'. Interior pages clean with no foxing. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is virtually complete, with just some small areas of loss at the top edge. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Fading to the red titles on the spine. Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed, with some browning to the top and bottom margins of the boards. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Unobtrusive very light sporadic foxing to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Some light production creasing to a couple of pages. Interior pages clean. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is complete, which is very unusual for this book - the dustwrapper normally has some loss. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear to the top edge of the front panel, and a couple of closed tears and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper also slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background), and very slightly foxed at the edges. Tiny crease to the bottom corner of the front cover. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Small marks to inside of front cover and contents page, otherwise interior pages clean. The top corner tips of the last few pages are slightly creased. No tears. ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Square, clean, near fine copy in bright, unclipped near fine dustjacket (mylar protected). Half-title page is warmly INSCRIBED by Landesman to the countercultural poet/photographer/filmmaker/publisher/world traveler Ira Cohen; SIGNED and DATED: "To Ira Cphen / a very early fellow / conspirator - / Best, Jay Landesman / London / 1982". A very attractive copy and an excellent association. With a 7 pp. introduction by John Clellon Holmes. Inscribed & Signed by Editor.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, with very light sporadic foxing to the fore-edge of the front cover. Interior pages clean. Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of 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 in any condition, and this is a very clean largely uncreased copy. ***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.

Boards. Condition: Good. Limited edition. One of 750 copies bound for distribution in 1945 (no. 69). Tall 8vo, 157 pp. Includes Chronology and Bibliography. Laid in are the July 1954 issue of Guilde du Livre (complete) with a Miller article, "Litterature et canard creve", a clipping of a 1974 New York Times article by Miller on Erica Jong, two other Miller-related clippings, and a mimeographed list of "Additional Titles for Sale" (by Miller and others, bookseller unidentified). Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, light soiling to covers including small stain to top edge of front board, page edges tanned, front free endpaper missing.

Softcover. Complete set, comprising two volumes, of the short-lived literary and arts periodical. Vol. 1 Very Good plus in saddle-stapled wrappers, with both front and rear wrapper detached from the binding. Vol. 2 Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4 - January-February 1941 - the fourth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by Herbert Blackburn. ***Near fine in the original thin cream, black and red printed stapled covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. No tears. Red title to front cover bright. Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Top and bottom corners of pages just lightly creased. No tears. ***36 printed pages plus adverts on the inside covers. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fourth letter by Tambimuttu, dated January 15, 1941; Two poems by Walter de la Mare; On a Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas; A Wartime Dawn by David Gascoyne; Two War Poems by George Scurfield; The Dyke-builder by Henry Treece; In a Time of Crisis by Lawrence Durrell; Reviews, including: Richard Eberhart by Nicholas Moore; T. S. Eliot's East Coker by James H. Kirkup; En Partant Pour Syrie by G.S . Fraser. Four Lyrics by Tambimuttu. ***Also poems by Anne Ridler, Gavin Ewart, Peter J. Little, G. S. Fraser, John Malcolm Brinnin, J. C. Hall and Nicholas Moore. ***Particularly interesting is the perceptive two-page review of T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" (Faber & Faber 1s.) by James H. Kirkup. This issue also contains an essay "The Unconscious: Spirituality: Catastrophe by Pierre Jean Jouve (translated from the French by David Gascoyne). ***Vol. 1. No. 4 - the fourth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of 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. ***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.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Rare variant with 'The Gotham Book Mart, 51 West 47th Street, N.Y.C.' on the bottom of the front cover, indicating the American distributor of the magazine (please see scans). ***Near fine in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are exceptionally clean. Staples rusted as usual. Internally also near fine - pages clean without any of the usual foxing. No tears. Lower corners just very slightly creased. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of 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. ***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.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo in red and black printed stiff card covers, pages numbered 125 to 186. Includes first printings of Pound's 5pp essay 'Symposium: I. Consegna and Nin's 5pp essay 'Creative Principle in Analysis' . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved near FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (covers moderately tanned and very faintly marked, tiny slight bump to top corner tip of front cover). An unusually nice copy of this very elusive journal (1929 - 1940) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Near fine in the rarer light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a more common issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. None of the usual rubbing or browning to the boards. Corners sharp with just some creasing to the bottom corner tip of the back board. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. None of the usual foxing - interior pages clean. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is complete, which is very unusual for this book - the dustwrapper normally has some loss. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, but there are no tears and no loss. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper also slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel of dustwrapper really clean (which is unusual, being a white background). Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper - especially in the less commonly found light beige cloth binding. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background). The bottom corner of the page block is slightly creased throughout. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a small black contemporaneous bookseller's label to bottom of first page: 'G. R. Downing, Bookseller, Fore Street, St. Ives, C'. Pages sporadically lightly foxed. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. Lower corners of most pages also lightly creased. The three pages of colour lithographs, including the centrefold, are bright and clean, and are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on normal thick paper (not the thin postwar economy paper as used in comparative Issue No. 9). ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***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.

One number (all published), one of 1000 copies, signed by John Waller; 4to (24.5 x 16.8 cm); partly unopened, illustrations by Osbert Lancaster, holograph corrections to the Editorial, some toning to leaves, else unmarked internally; original wrappers printed in red and black, slight creasing to corners and extremities, mild soiling, some loss to spine at foot, else very good. The first and only appearance of Greek Horizons, a literary journal founded in Athens in 1946 by British author and war correspondent Derek Patmore (1908-1972). This copy is signed three times by one of the contributors, British war poet Sir John Waller (1917-1995), a cofounder of the Salamander Society of poets and writers in Cairo during World War II. Inscribed by him on the editorial page, 'John Waller's signed copy / JSW'. He has also signed both his poems on pp.24-25. Patmore intended Greek Horizons to be a literary quarterly, highlighting Greek culture through the lens of prominent British authors and artists living in Greece at the end of World War II (while the Greek civil war was still raging), but the 1000 copies printed in 1946 marked its only appearance. What makes this volume exceptional is the notability of the contributors, among whom were classicist Rex Warner, who contributed an unpublished translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, novelist Lawrence Durrell, and author and environmentalist Kaity Argyropoulou. Durrell, perhaps the best known of the contributors, wrote The Telephone, a short story that was an early version of Patmos, which appeared in Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953). Durrell was a significant influence on Patmore and helped inspire the idea for Greek Horizons (Genova, p.92). Patmore's plans for a second issue came to a premature halt when he left Athens abruptly in the autumn of 1946 - never to return. As such, copies of this important publication are incredibly rare. An important English publication in Greece, one of only 1000 copies, and featuring a superb group of contributors. Genova, A.M. 2022. "The Making of Greek Horizons (1946): Derek Coventry Patmore and the History of His Literary Quarterly", in Leger, John M. (ed.), Princeton University Chronicle. Hollis: Puritan Capital Press: 73-101.

FIRST EDITIONS, various illustrations, some with a small amount of colour-printing, the odd faint spot, pp. 81; 81; 81; 96, 4to, original wrappers, a little rubbed, the inside covers of first volume faintly foxed, backstrip of final volume a little nicked at foot, this last with a little fading to covers, a touch of corner-creasing, very good condition overall. Girodias's journal has, as one might expect, a preoccupation with censorship, which probably explains its short-lived nature - indeed, the 'Apology', in the nature of a defence, that begins the penultimate number confirms its troubles with the authorities. As well as the excerpts from the Press's own books - including Burroughs, Harriet Daimler, Donleavy's 'The Ginger Man', Miller's 'Sexus' - there is a column by Terry Southern, 'Spy's Corner', in the first three issues, an article on chastity belts by Henry Crannach, selections from Robert Giraud's photographs of French criminal tattoos, and erotic postcards from the same collection, and instructions by Brion Gysin on how to construct your own 'Dream Machine'. Uncommon as a complete set.