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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Softcover, stapled wraps, 9 x 6 inches, 32 pp. Very good. Addendum sheet laid in "Contributions to Books (1932-44)". Limited edition, #207 of one thousand numbered copies. (K060).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Pink, stapled wrappers. Spine lightly sunned, else fine. Addendum slip laid in. This is number 996 of 1000 numbered copies.

200 / 216 pp. Good condition; touches of wear on covers.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. 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. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator).…

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. 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. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator).…

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. 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. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A trifle bumped at the crown else fine in very good dustwrapper with chip at the bottomof the front panel. A small poetry anthology that is particularly noteworthy as Sylvia Plath's first book appearance, preceding the rare offprint *Sculptor* by two years. After contributions from a host of already-established poets there is a small "Undergraduate" section which contains two Plath entries: "Aubade" and "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea." Also includes an entry from James Wright, his first book was published this year was well. Other contributors include Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, John Ciardi, Donald Hall, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Louis Macneice, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Robert Penn Warren, John Hall Wheelock, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Dannie Abse, Eric Barker (First Prize), Thomas Blackburn, J.R. Brownfield, Jean Burden, Kenneth M. Cameron, Grace Carnot, Charles Causley, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Barbara D. Cooper, Allan Donaldson, Leah Bodein Drake, Carleton Drewry, Evelyn Eaton, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, David Ferry, Robert Francis, Frances Frost, Jed Garrick, Kenneth O. Hanson, John Heath-Stubbs, Elizabeth Henley, Robert Horan, Elizabeth Jennings, Dilys Laing, Joseph Langland, Fred Lape, Norman MacCraig, Harold Grier McCurdy, Jackson Morris, David Morton, Thomas Moult, Hubert Nicholson, Gloria Rawlinson, Alastair Reid, Dorothy Roberts, James L. Rosenbert, Arthur M. Sampley, Ernest Sandeen, Marcia Masters Schmid, Burns Singer, Radclive Squires, Jean Sewell Standish, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, A.M. Sullivan, Robert A. Wallace, Peter B. Walsh, Lynne Lawner, Donald Lehmkuhl, Henry D.M. Sherrerd, Jr., Richard Roe, and Barbara Stewart. A nicer than usual copy - the thin paper jacket is very prone to tearing.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. 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. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator).…

First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Miller to his Polish translator. In publisher's photographic binding. vi [2] 216 p. Inscribed association copy of the first edition of Miller's selected works on writing. Inscribed to Miller's Polish translator, Zygmunt ?anowski "For my old friend from afar", in 1965. ?anowski (19111989) was a Polish translator of English and Nordic languages who translated Miller's The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (U?miech u stóp drabiny, 1964). . Bumped, otherwise in fine condition. In publisher's photographic binding First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Miller to his Polish translator.…