Elegy for the Latest Dead
WATKINS, Vernon
Published by privately printed (for Alan Clodd at the Tragara Press), (Edinburgh), 1977
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First edition, hardcover issue. With an introductory note by Gwen Watkins. Octavo. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Fine. Copy number 4 of 25 numbered hardcover copies Signed by Gwen Watkins. Seller Inventory # 572929
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Title: Elegy for the Latest Dead
Publisher: privately printed (for Alan Clodd at the Tragara Press), (Edinburgh)
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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Elegy for the Latest Dead
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Alan Clodd at the Tragara Press, Ediburgh, 1977
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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First edition. Softcover. One of 100 copies from a total edition of 125, although this copy out of series. Introductory note by Gwen Watkins. A poem by Watkins for Dylan Thomas. A fine copy in wrappers with paper label on the front panel. Seller Inventory # 148040
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Elegy for the Latest Dead.
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(np): Alan Clodd, 1977
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Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition. [14 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers and fine integral dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 100 (of 125) numbered copies on Abbey Mills antique laid paper. Watkins' poem for Dylan Thomas, here with an introductory note by Gwen Watkins. Seller Inventory # 59522
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ELEGY FOR THE LATEST DEAD.
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The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1977
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Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
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8vo. pp [13]. Wraps. Original publisher's green covers, lettered black on the front cover. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being no. 44. Fine. Seller Inventory # C48681
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Elegy for the Latest Dead.
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Privately printed for Gwen Watkins by the Tragara Press, Edinburgh., 1977
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First Edition
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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First separate edition. Introductory note by Gwen Watkins. Octavo. [pp 16]. Wrappers with flaps and title-label on front. Out of a total edition of 120 numbered copies, this is one of 95 printed on Abbey Mills antique laid paper. Laid in are various proof sheets. Very near fine. Seller Inventory # WATKINSV005594
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Elegy for the Latest Dead
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privately printed (for Alan Clodd at the Tragara Press), (Edinburgh), 1977
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Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. With an introductory note by Gwen Watkins. Octavo. Self-wrappers. Fine. Copy number 28 of 125 numbered copies. Seller Inventory # 572926
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Elegy for the Latest Dead. With an introductory note by Gwen Watkins
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Edinburgh: privately printed (by hand for Alan Clodd at the Tragara Press), 1977
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Soft cover
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Plain brown wrappers. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies, 25 (signed by Gwen Watkins) on Sheepstor handmade paper, the rest on Abbey Mills antique laid paper, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the printer, "Proof copy on Turkey Mill paper"; loosely inserted some further variant proof pages. The poem is dedicated "for Dylan Thomas". Thomas was to have been best man to Vernon Watkins on his marriage in 1944 to Gwendoline Davies, but he missed the ceremony. Both alumni of Swansea Grammar School, they had first met in 1935; Watkins met his future wife at Bletchley. "Elegy for the Latest Dead was the first of the many poems Vernon Watkins wrote to celebrate the great poet who had been his friend and to learn how to live with his own grief. That grief was never entirely assuaged" (Gwen Watkins). "Over this universal grave the sky / Brings to the grieving earth its great reward, / And it was right to lay ambition by, / The strongest way being deep and the way hard. / This body sleeping where the dead leaves lie / Gives back to trees from colours they discard / The patient light of its own penury / Out of whose silence wakes the living word . . .". Seller Inventory # 32M100503
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