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2014-2019. 1st editions except for vol. [1] (August 2014, preceded by a hors commerce edition in June 2014). Oblong 16mo, occasionally smaller or borderline, except for vol. [1] and [poems 1-100] (oblong 8vo). Stapled or stitched wrappers, the two collections perfect bound. Collected [poems 1-100] [226pp.] and [poems 1-150] [336pp.], both printed on rectos only, otherwise unpaginated (24pp. mostly printed on rectos only except for vol. [2], 16pp.). A complete set (at the time of writing) of this anonymous yet distinctive project, the components of which can (aside from the text) be distinguished by their dates and the colouring of their covers, as follows: [1] August 2014, red covers; there were only about 15 copies of the earlier, slightly different hors commerce edition; [2] October 2014, dark blue covers; [3] January 2015, pink covers; [4] February 2015, blue/grey covers; a second edition of about 150 copies followed in 2018, this 1st edition being one of about 40; [5] May 2015, black covers; [6] August 2015, mirrored covers; [7] September 2015, white covers; [8] November 2015, yellow covers; [9] January 2016, plum covers; [10] February 2016, gold covers; [11] April 2016, pink, green, navy blue, and gold, on grey covers; [12] May 2016, red on white marbled covers; [13] June 2016, gold on blue decorative covers; [14] July 2016, cornflowers embedded in white covers; [15] October 2016, blue and yellow marbled covers; [16] December 2016, red and gold covers; [17] March 2017, mould-colour and gold covers; [18] May 2017, floral pink, mint, and purple, on lilac; [19] July 2017, floral pink, mint, and gold, on dark blue covers; [20] October 2017, floral red, mint, and gold, on bright blue; [21] January 2018, pinkish sparkly covers; [22] April 2018, grey and gold marbled covers; [23] July 2018, pink and blue marbled covers; [24] October 2018, scumbled gold on red covers; [25] February 2019, gold on green covers; [26] May 2019, gold on blue covers; [poems 1-100] May 2016, orange wrappers; and [poems 1-150] [December] 2016, bright blue wrappers. Edition sizes (except for the first appearances of books [1] and [4]) were usually between 80-100 or -150, closer to 200 or 250 on a few occasions, but only about 35 and 85 copies of the collected volumes were printed, respectively. The books are not on the Face Press website; rather, Heames would announce them by email from time to time and also sell copies at readings here and there. Therefore, it is already difficult to put together a set, and this one is in Fine condition. With the errata slips bound in to vols. [5], [8], and [10] and loosely inserted in the collected volumes; in the second collected volume, one poem is mistakenly printed twice and another is missing, sometimes found on a separate sheet of paper but, as the error was spotted later, the sheet is not present in all copies (and is not considered to be part of the publication). It is not here, but the poem can be found in vol. [11]. Loosely inserted in vol. [19] and [poems 1-100] are autograph notes signed ('Ian') from Heames to John (James), and vols. [14] and [16] are in their original envelopes addressed from Heames to James. Seller Inventory # 004321
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