Ouch by Peter Ackroyd (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine Condition. First Edition. Original purple wraps, mimeographed in blue ink. Faint wear at edges, otherwise unmarked - a fine copy of Ackroyd's first solo publication. One of 200 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048008.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Curiously Strong vol IV No 2 October 31st 1971 and edited by Ian Patterson, London. Slim soft cover volume which is stapled along spine, black title and square on front of purple paper covers, and including 15 unnumbered pages with blue ink typing. Scarce copy and in near fine condition with no wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The sole UK printing published by The Curiously Strong, London in 1971. According to Ahearn, one of only 200 copies issued. The BOOK is in Fine condition. 15 unnumbered leaves mimeographed in blue ink from typescript printed on rectos only, stapled with black and plum stiff card covers. The author's rare first book, a collection of poetry, edited by Ian Patterson and issued as 'The Curiously Strong v. 4, no. 2, Oct. 31, 1971'. Some homoerotic content. Ackroyd of course would become the famous biographer of the City of London, and his early works are suffused with the lights of the city a remarkable work. He has also been very prolific, publishing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and has won many literary prizes. This first book so scarce that his second 'London Lickpenny', is sometimes erroneously cited as his first. The first copy that we have handled with only 4 copies located on COPAC. The book is protected in a transparent archival folder. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

First Edition. First printing. Small quarto. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets with printed card covers; [15]pp, printed recto-only. Mild corner-creasing; still a clean, Very Good or better copy in the original wrappers. A generic bookplate hand-signed by Ackroyd has been loosely laid-in by a previous collector. Ackroyd's somewhat uncommon first book, a poetry collection; issued as v.4 no.2 of "The Curiously Strong," a London avant-garde literary journal edited by Ian Patterson. Reputedly issued in an edition of "around 200 copies" (see Ahearn, Collected Books 2011). Signed.