Sixteen Poems: written 1942-1945
George SIMS
Published by [Loanhead]: privately printed (at the Tragara Press), 1995
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Dark green wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 85 numbered (and 15 lettered) copies "designed and printed" by Alan Anderson, this copy from the collection of Alex Bridge, with his bookplate and ownership inscription, 11 October 1995; loosely inserted the author's (Tragara-) printed prospectus, single sheet, one corner slightly creased, inscribed by Bridge, "order 5.10.95". "Wind's littoral work is / To make beds uneasy / To counterfeit dreams and / To disturb them coldly, / Hold us where we know not. / Tide's trick is to present / Irons and bewilder, / Uncovering scars and / Washing them. (The absent / Swellstrength with dignity / Lifts distant heads that are / Not to be recognised). / What is this lost object? / A fish head, immobile / Clown face, refusing its / Death story . . ." Alex Bridge was a collector of wide interests, with a particular penchant for Byron, whom he started collecting in his teens. He was the author of an article on the Tragara Press for the Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, October 1991: "The work of this excellent small Press is, I think, not as widely known as it deserves to be." Halliwell B78. Seller Inventory # GS100068
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Title: Sixteen Poems: written 1942-1945
Publisher: [Loanhead]: privately printed (at the Tragara Press)
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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Sixteen Poems Written 1942-1945
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Tragara Press, 1995
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Softcover
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 6 3/8" wide by 9 1/4". Copy #14 of 85. Inscribed by the author on a front blank, signed with first name only. Seller Inventory # 337978
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Sixteen Poems: written 1942-1945
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[Loanhead]: privately printed (at the Tragara Press), 1995
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Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dark green wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 85 numbered (and 15 lettered) copies "designed and printed" by Alan Anderson. "Wind's littoral work is / To make beds uneasy / To counterfeit dreams and / To disturb them coldly, / Hold us where we know not. / Tide's trick is to present / Irons and bewilder, / Uncovering scars and / Washing them. (The absent / Swellstrength with dignity / Lifts distant heads that are / Not to be recognised). / What is this lost object? / A fish head, immobile / Clown face, refusing its / Death story . . ." Halliwell B78. Seller Inventory # GS100067
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Sixteen Poems (written 1942-1945) [Numbered edition]
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Privately Printed at The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1995
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Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 23pp unpaginated collection of sixteen poems. Printed on white Teton wove paper at The Tragara Press in a limited numbered edition of 85 copies. This is copy #78. Green card wrap-around covers with white title plate tipped to front cover. No inscriptions. Appears unread. Seller Inventory # 012046
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Sixteen Poems written 1942-1945
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Privately Printed at the Tragara Press, [Edinburgh],, 1995
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Wrappers
First Edition
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
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Wrappers. First Edition. One of only 85 numbered copies Fine copy. Seller Inventory # 1339
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SIXTEEN POEMS: WRITTEN, 1942-1945.
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Privately Printed By Tragara Press, No Place Noted, 1995
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First Edition
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
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8vo. pp [22]. Large format paperback. Original publisher's dark green textured paper, lettered black on the front cover. Number 18 a limited edition of 85 copies. Including a flyer for the book, loosely inserted. Fine. Seller Inventory # C28290
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SIXTEEN POEMS. WRITTEN 1942 - 1945. [ SIGNED]
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Privately Printed By Alan Anderon At The Tragara Press., 1995
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Softcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Nicola Wagner, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
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8vo. pp 17. Original dark green wraps with tipped in label on cover. Signed presentation copy on the front end paper:" The Bowden copy. George S. 2/12/95." Edition of 85 numbered copies - this being number 12. on Teton Wove paper. Loosely inserted is a singed typed letter from George Sims to Nancy Bowden, - good letter discussing his anothology' A Darkened Being' and his religious views:" Agnositc of the questing, doubtful Thomas Hardy kind ." Also mentions a burglary. Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Seller Inventory # 60751
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Sixteen Poems: written 1942-1945 - printer's corrected proofs with author's original manuscript/typescript
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[Loanhead]: privately printed (at the Tragara Press), 1995
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Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Author's manuscript/typescript, 21pp. 8vo, with his numerous corrections and alterations throughout; printer's proofs, 19pp., printed rectos only, with Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections on five pages, and the Tragara Press-printed prospectus for the book, single sheet, slightly creased and with one small mark, printing on the verso the poem "Come deceptions of each kind". Wartime poems reprinted in the evening of the author's life by his "oldest friend", Alan Anderson of the Tragara Press; the bookseller George Sims had been the press's "first customer" in 1954. Sixteen Poems was published in an edition of 85 numbered and 15 lettered copies; its original title, evidently, was "Ten Poems", and the author intended an epigraph, L.P. Hartley's "The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there". First a poet, and quite widely published, George Sims (1923-1999) became an antiquarian bookseller and then a writer of well-received crime fiction. "Come deceptions of each kind: / Those of gulls who whirl through / Frail snowfall taste of / Sea's spiced breath upon my window, / Then ease themselves upon tumbling, / With senseless cry celebrating / This world's terror / Those of thin thrush, sick / With cold, balanced on bare stick, / Piping of neglected hedges thick / With rose and cream-lipped honeysuckle. / Old crows, thrown like scraps away / In this grey hour of day / Make your tuneless cry your only song, / Bring forth your unsteady young, / Come, deceptions of Springkind.". Seller Inventory # 32M100459
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