Tenebrae by Hill, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First printing. Signed & dated by the author on title page. Minor shelf wear to binding with sunning around edges. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. Dj lightly worn, toned & sunned in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.

8vo. Second impression. First published in 1978. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Signed and dated in black ink on the title page. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine and parts of the front panel. There is a nick to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in very good+ d/w. The second impression was printed to cope with demand after the book won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1979. Uncommon signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a slightly spine-faded else near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the titlepage at a later date.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with the spine titling just a bit off-center. Signed and dated by Hill on the title page. A handsome copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Two first English and one first American edition. English editions, one with the "Duff Cooper Memorial Prize winner 1979" wraparound band, are fine in fine dust jackets. The American edition, a review copy with the slip and a half-page bio laid in, is fine save for a gentle bump at the spine base, in a trifle worn about fine dust jacket with a bit of very light internal foxing (the bio sheet has a bit of toning and wear at the edges). Both the English edition without the wraparound band and the American review copy are Signed by Hill on the title page. Housed together in a fine custom maroon clamshell case with spine titling and Hill's facsimile signature gilt. A nice collection of first editions of Hill's fourth book-length collection of poetry.

A group of poems which would subsequently appear in Hill's most overtly religious collection of poetry, Tenebrae, here found photocopied from their very first publication in the journal Agenda, inscribed by Hill, and presented to a long-standing Leeds University colleague and friend. Seven octavo-sized pages, held with a staple, and inscribed at the head of the first sheet with Hill's additional manuscript note at the tail giving publication details in Agenda. With a compliments slip. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) joined the staff of the Department of English Literature at Leeds in 1954 taught there for almost three decades. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

Second impression. Octavo. 48 pages. Poems, including the Lachrimae sequence.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''T.G. Rosenthal - best wishes, Geoffrey Hilll, 10.ii.85.'' The recipient is Tom Rosenthal who at this time was running the firm of André Deutsch and was himself a writer, broadcaster and art historian.Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper.