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An archive of Jim Burns poetry books. From the collection of Martin Bax founding editor of the Ambit magazine. Eight of the book are signed and dedicated to Bax by Burns. The collection includes a broken run of 22 issues 'Palantir' edited by Burns and published between 1976 and 1982. The run includes three copies of issue no. 3. Also included are some quite early works by Burns, for example, 'A Way of Looking at Things' which was self published in 1964. 37 in total.

Hogarth Press.- White (T.H.) & Julian Bell, contributors. Cambridge Poetry 1929, Basil Wright's copy with his ownership inscription to endpapers, signed by various contributors, including Ronald Bottrall, William Empson, K. A. Mathews etc., and with inscription from J. D. Cullen, all after their respective poems, light toning to endpapers, spine repaired, 1929 § Cornford (Frances) Different Days, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, 1928; and 2 others, all from the Hogarth Living Poets series, original boards, some light rubbing and toning to extremities, the Hogarth press, 8vo (4)⁂ The first is a good Hogarth Press association item, being one of the editor's copies, signed by 14 of its contributors. It is also the final volume with a Vanessa Bell cover design. The title also precedes Julian Bell's first book of poems Winter Movement, which was published the following year.

BUCHAN JOHN.  Sir Walter Scott, A Centenary Address, bound with A Forgotten Antiquary by William C. van Antwerp. Ltd. ed. 300. 27pp. Fldg. frontis. Plates. Leather backed orig. brds. Book Club of California, 1932; also 8 other items by Buchan ref. literature & poetry incl. some re. Scott & The Poetry of Neil Munro with preface by Buchan, 1931.  (9).

Forster (E. M.). Commonplace Book, facsimile edition, Yorkshire: Scolar Press, 1978, monochrome facsimile pages, calf spine with paper label to marbled boards in slipcase, spine lightly faded & rubbed, slipcase slightly marked, folio, limited edition 42/350, together with: Manhood (H. A.), Bread and Vinegar, London: The White Owl Press, 1931, some minor toning, signed by the author to the limitation page, front gutter cracked, original grey cloth, 8vo, limited edition 47/205, plusTrevelyan (R. C.), The New Parsifal an Operatic Fable, London: printed for the author at the Chiswick Press, 1914, period inscription to the head of front endpaper, some light spotting, original white cloth spine to blue boards, slight tone, 4to, and other late 19th century & modern fiction & poetry, including The Novels of Dostoevsky, 9 volumes, mixed editions, 1918-27, original uniform red cloth, 8vo, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, some odd volumes, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves )

Local Interest. Miscellaneous manuscripts and some printed ephemera, 18th c and later, including 12 quit notices and 3 corresponding letters relating to John Leacroft's property in Litchurch, Derby, all dated 1796, and before the estate was sold to Joseph Strutt, who later, along with other properties, created the Derby Arboretum there, a 1715 MS poor law examination of Francis Nallson of Bolsolver, Derbyshire, a former solider, examined before and signed by Lord James Cavendish as JP, 1770 Freedom of Perth for a Nottingham merchant, printed and hand-scrivened on vellum, with seal, The Humble Petition of the Innkeepers and Victuallers, of Nottingham, to the House of Commons, Sherborne: Cruttwell & Son, Printers, n.d. [1804], 2pp, folio, a 1776 legal bill of [2]pp of MS, a Victorian schoolboy's manuscript book of verse, Poetry [by] Master William Green, Park House Academy, Nottingham, 1873, [4]ff of MS, loose and loosening leaves, original wrappers, 4to, 1807 Nottingham Academy school bill, a 1788 certificate of bastardy, Sarah Heath of Leek, Staffordshire, signed by John Sneyd as JP, 1842 Royal Hospital Chelsea pensioner's questionnaire, an 1840s Derby Savings' Bank pocket book, split, original calf over printed papered boards, 12mo, 1862 printed and inscribed vellum freedom of the then town of Nottingham, an earlier burgher's certificate dated 1820 conforming, four 19th c indentures, etc

Politics Annotated with Poetry. A Copy of a Poll of the Burgesses and Freeholders Of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, For electing Two Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the said Town [...] April 1754; (in the exact Order they voted) before John Fellows and Thomas Sands, Gentlemen, Sheriffs. Candidates, [...] Lord Viscount Howe, Sir Wilughby (sic, i.e. Willoughby) Aston, Bart. [&] John Plumptree [...], Nottingham: Printed by Tho. Collyer, and sold by R. Ware on Ludgate-Hill London, et al., 1754, pp: [1], 76pp, interleaved, [4]ff of which between pages 2-9 are inscribed in contemporary ink manuscript with a 33-stanza poem, 'The Tories Lamentation' by J.D. of Leicester, the verse untraceable by us thus far, contemporary calf boards, rebacked and repaired, inner-margins reinforced, 8vo Provenance: 1) John Soare/Nottingham/1766; MS inscription to ffep. 2) John Walker. 1807/January 1* Bottle Lane; MS inscription to recto pastedown. 3) Frederic Arthur Wadsworth (1871-1943), Nottingham historian and book collector; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Swinburne (Charles Algernon), approx. 65 volumes by, mostly first editions in their original publisher's bindings, verse and some drama, including Clarke (Harry, illustrator), Selected Poems, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1928, plates and vignettes, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over pictorial scarlet cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, [association copy] A Century of Roundels, presented by the author's mother Lady Jane Swinburne (1809-1896) to Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1906), the authoress and a neighbour on the Isle of Wight, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, Hugh Walpole's copy of The Sisters, 1892, both the author's armorial bookplate and cypher book label, original cloth, 8vo, Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, 1870, original wrappers, 8vo, Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876, original wrappers, 8vo, A Word for The Navy, popular edition, 1896, original wrappers, 8vo, Studies in Prose and Poetry, 1894, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, two Mosher imprints on Van Gelder hand-made paper, some secondary studies of the man and his literary work, various, etc., mixed sizes

Miscellaneous, approx. 30, including the occult: The Letters of Hargrave Jennings, sole collected edition, one of 100 copies, Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1895, original publisher's cloth over printed papered boards, ex Theosophical Society Library copy, their marks and stamps, with expected wear and faults, 4to, Sarmiento (Domingo F.), Life in the Argentine [...], first American edition, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868, original publisher's cloth, some wear, 8vo, Bailey's English Dictionary, fourth edition, London: J. Darby, et al., 1728, contemporary panelled calf, worn with some losses, 8vo, Edgeworth (Maria), Helen, three-volume set, first edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1834, some quires with movement, contemporary three-quarter green-stained calf over marbled boards by Porter & Custard of Yeovil, [Somerset], their ticket, Coker Court copy with their book label, 12mo, medicine: Armstrong's Art of Preserving Health, London: T. Cadell, et al., 1796, original marbled boards, spine exposed, 8vo, The English Annual, London: Edward Churton, [1836], undated engraved title-page only, steel engraved plates, original publisher's morocco gilt, chipped spine, all edges gilt, 8vo, other leather and part-leather bindings, Cruikshank's Fairy Library, Hop-o'-my-Thumb and The Seven League Boots, London: David Bogue, n.d. [1853], original pictorial wrappers, disbound and tatty, 12mo, Cruikshank (George, illustrator), Mornings at Bow Street [...], fourth edition, London: Thomas Tegg & Son, 1838, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, [Percy (Thomas)], Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, three-volume set, fifth edition, London: F.C. and J. Rivington, et al., 1812, slightly later quarter-calf, chipped and worn William Horatio Crawford copies, of Lakelands, Cork, Ireland, his bookplates, 8vo, Arbuthnott's Henwife, twelfth edition, 1886, original pictorial boards, perished spine, wear, 8vo, Hawkesworth's Voyages, volume III only, Dublin, 1773, contemporary calf, worn, 8vo, a defective 18th c copy of Raffald's English Housekeeper, 8vo, a defective 18th c road book, an armorial binding, poetry, decorative diminutive 'miniature' books, etc

A collection of seven 19th century leather bound books with leather spines. To include: 'Mullers Ancient Art' - Ancient Art and its Remains or a Manual of the Archaeology of Art by C.O. Muller (1850)', 'Hudibras in Three Parts, Written in the time of the late wars by Samuel Butler', 'Mavor's Classical Poetry - Classical English Poetry for the use of Schools and Young Persons in General by William Mavor' (1829)', 'British Poems - Poetical work of John Milton, Complete in one Volume' (1827), 'Hamiltons Progress Of Society - The Progress of Society By The Late Robert Hamilton (1830), 'A Voyage Around the World in the Years 1740,1 , 2, 3, 4 by George Anson' (1812), 'Herschel's Preliminary Discourse - Preliminary Discourse on the study of Natural Philosophy by Sir John F .W. Herschel, Bart .K.H (1851) and 'Brewsters Life of Newton - Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton Vol II (1860). Largest book measures 22cm x 14.5cm. 

A Large Quantity of Books, various subjects including: Plants, including trees and fungi; WWI/WWII; Heritage Buildings, including works on Westmorland and Cumberland; Scandinavia; Biographies, such as James Lees-Milne and Freya Stark; Art; Politics; Royal; Toynbee (Arnold) & history; Poetry and Verse, including Robert Burns and the Oxford Book of American Verse; etc. (17 Boxes)

FIVE BOXES OF BOOKS, approximately eighty to one hundred titles to include vintage children's titles, twenty Giles books, a Harry Potter four book boxed set, Lord of the Rings titles, modern, vintage and antiquarian fiction, poetry and literature, etc (5 boxes) (sd)

[Byron (George Gordon Noel)] Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B. Sheridan, first edition, first issue with first line on p.11 starting "To weep..." and last four lines on p.12, half-title, 2 advertisement leaves at end, some scattered spotting or light foxing, a few instances of light marginal finger-soiling, handsomely bound in modern green half morocco for Chas. J. Sawyer, spine gilt in compartments, spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed, t.e.g., [Wise 115], John Murray, 1816 § [Middleton (Marmaduke)] Poetical Sketches of a Tour in the West of England, half-title, wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces, a few abrasion marks to front pastedown where bookplate removed, title with contemporary ink ownership inscription to head, occasional very light spotting, contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt, spine slightly sunned, rubbed with a few light stains, g.e., Sheffield, Printed for the Author by J. Montgomery, 1822, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century poetry, v.s. (c.25)

Mickle (William Julius) Almada Hill: An Epistle from Lisbon, with half-title and final advertisement leaf, very small stab-holes to inner margin, half-title with very short tear to head and subtle repair to inner margin, E1-3 with small paper repair to upper inner margin, some light soiling, particularly to half-title, endpapers lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco spine label, an attractive copy, Oxford, W. Jackson, 1781 § Pye (Henry James) The Progress of Refinement. A Poem, half-title, A4 with tiny rust hole within text, some light browning and scattered foxing, final leaf with short closed tear to fore-margin, modern marbled wrappers, Oxford, at the Clarendon-Press, 1783, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 18th century poetry of Oxford imprint or interest, some disbound, v.s. (c.17)

Strawberry Hill Press.- Jones (William) The Muse Recalled, An Ode, Occasioned by the Nuptials of Lord Viscount Althorp and Miss Lavinia Bingham, [one of 250 copies], book-label of J.O. Edwards, small stab-holes to inner margin, a fine copy, modern calf, lightly rubbed, spine a touch sunned, [Hazen 28], Strawberry-Hill, Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1781 § Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, Who made this amusement a substitute for Society, Which the disturbed situation of the country prevented their enjoying, half-title with small paper repair to head, just touching ink inscription "The gift of Sir John & Lady Legard June 1797", the odd patch of light soiling, some scattered foxing, heavier to peripheral ff., handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked and recornered in modern calf, spine with gilt floral motif and red morocco label, old covers a little rubbed with a few minor ink spots, Strasburg, in the month of February 1792; and others, 18th and 19th century poetry, attractively bound, 4to (5) ⁂ The second a scarce and anonymous work, printed shortly after Strasburg had been annexed by France. The city was reduced to the status of a French provincial capital and its German university suppressed. Many English nationals caught there during these troubles became de facto prisoners. The work contains pieces by Goldsmith, Gray, Lyttleton, Sheridan and Pope, among others.

[Shillito (Charles)] The Country Book-Club. A Poem, title with etched vignette by J. Rowlandson after James Dunthorne, 4pp. list of subscribers, stab-holes to inner margin, faint ink numbering to head of each leaf, water-stained, some light soiling, particularly to outer leaves, disbound and loose, Printed for the Author, 1788 § Temple of Imposture (The); A Poem, engraved satirical frontispiece, lacking half-title, first two leaves working loose, frontispiece lightly offset, lightly browned, occasional light spotting or marginal staining, final leaf with portion of loss to inner margin, repaired with later paper, disbound, for J. Bew, 1778, first editions; and others, 18th century poetry, 8vo & 4to (c.16)⁂ The second an attack on John Wesley, sometimes attributed to William Coombe.

American Revolution.- Poems Fit for a Bishop; Which Two Bishops will read, first edition, book-label of J. O. Edwards, title lightly soiled and with lower margin neatly repaired, modern wrappers, for J. Almon, [Sabin 63615], 1780 § Mob in the Pit (A): Or, Lines Addressed to The D--ch-ss of A---ll, second edition, half-title, edges a little soiled and frayed, two tiny holes to final leaf, one affecting a letter of text, half-title and verso of final leaf soiled, stitched, unbound, for S. Bladon, 1773; and others, 18th century poetry, 8vo & 4to (c.20)⁂ The first including the poem An American Prayer, For the Year 1777. It "consists of fifteen four-line stanzas, which might be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle" (Sabin).

NO RESERVE Lang (Andrew) The Red Book of Heroes, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, 1909; Animal Stories, light foxing, 1899; The Pink Fairy Book, new impression, 1901; The Blue Poetry Book, second edition, ownership name to half-title, 1896; The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1898, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, some spines sunned with fraying and creasing to ends, but overall very bright covers; and 9 others, illustrated, mostly Lang, 4to (14)

Bath & Bristol.- [Pratt (Ellis)] "E. P. Philocosm". The Art of Dressing the Hair. A Poem. Humbly inscribed to the Members of the T.N. Club, first edition, book-label of J.O. Edwards, title with small ink mark to head and book-label of W.S. Lewis to verso, worm trace to foot throughout, reducing to small holes to final two leaves, a few times touching text but no loss of sense, some light spotting or soiling, modern marbled wrappers, [Roscoe A422], Bath, R. Cruttwell, for the Author, 1770 § [Anstey (Christopher)] An Election Ball, In Poetical Letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his Wife, at Glocester, second edition, frontispiece bound after E4 (lightly offset), a little chipped at edges, title with a few short tears to fore-edge, title and final f. a little browned and soiled, the odd light stain or spot elsewhere, later wrappers, chipped and worn, housed in a custom drop-back box, Bath, Printed for the Author, by S. Hazard, 1776; and others, poetry of Bath and Bristol interest or imprint, some disbound, v.s. (c.12)

Provincial imprint.- [Evans (Evan)] "a Curate from Snowdon". The Love of Our Country, A Poem, second edition, book-label of J. O. Edwards, title with contemporary ink ownership inscription to head and library ink stamp to verso, a couple instances of ink underlining or marginalia, title lightly browned and soiled, scattered light foxing, heavier at end, a few marginal chips or short tears to final few leaves, repaired with tape or later paper (tape just touching pagination to D4v), modern half cloth, corners and spine ends very lightly rubbed, Carmarthen, J. Ross, 1773 § Law (Samuel) A Domestic Winter-Piece...Exhibiting a full View of the Author's Dwelling-Place in the Winter-Season, first edition, half-title, light browning, the odd spot or small stain, heavier to verso of final leaf, disbound, Leeds, James Bowling, 1772; and others, poetry of provincial imprints including Newcastle, Whitby, Dunstable, Sudbury, Canterbury, Bishopstone (Sussex) &tc, v.s. (c.23)

Lucas (Henry) Poems to her Majesty: to which is added a new tragedy, entitled, The Earl of Somerset, half-title, list of subscribers, tinted engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate, some light foxing or spotting, mainly to peripheral ff., minor browning towards end, uncut in original marbled boards, quite worn, a few light stains, lacks most of spine, Printed for the Author, by William Davis, 1779 § Oram (Samuel Marsh) Poems...An Introduction, By Percival Stockdale, title with engraved vignette, list of subscribers at end, book-labels of John Sparrow and J.O. Edwards, title very lightly soiled and with ink manuscript number to head, endpapers lightly browned, modern boards, spine chipped and a little faded, corners rubbed, Printed at the Philanthropic Press, for T. Cadell, 1794, first editions; and others, 18th century poetry, v.s. (c.20)⁂ The second mentioned with Edward Jerningham, Hannah More and Anna Seward among the subscribers.

Scottish poetry.- Sillar (David) Poems, title with ink initial to head, A2-3 loose, browned and foxed, a few ink doodles to lower pastedown, uncut in original boards, rebacked with later paper, old covers quite worn and soiled, front endpaper renewed, Kilmarnock, John Wilson, 1789 § [Mercer (Thomas)] The Sentimental Sailor or St. Preux to Eloisa, engraved vignette title, divisional title following title-page, book-label of J.O. Edwards, title with two tiny holes to fore-margin, some scattered spotting, heavier foxing and light browning towards end, hinges repaired, later half calf, lightly rubbed, Edinburgh, for A. Kincaid and W. Creech, 1772, first editions, the odd small stain; and others, poetry of Scottish interest or imprint, a few disbound, including another copy of the second, 8vo & 4to (10)⁂ The second inspired by Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse and dedicated to him. Little is known about the author, possibly a Scot, whose collected poems appeared in Edinburgh and London in 1774.

Hurdis (Rev. James) Tears of Affection, A Poem, Occasioned by the Death of a Sister Tenderly Beloved, first edition, with half-title and final advertisement leaf, book-labels of Simon and Judith Adams Nowell-Smith, half-title lightly browned, a few light spots, advertisement leaf with scattered spotting, modern parchment-backed boards, parchment a little toned, for J. Johnson, 1794 § Wonder of Wonders! The Secrets of the Rock; Or, The Rock-Dove and Jay, lightly browned, some faint water staining, inner margin skilfully repaired, two further very small repairs to verso of final leaf, modern half calf, Sold by G. Terry, 1788, book-label of J.O. Edwards, spines gilt; and others, 18th century poetry, v.s. (c.18)⁂ The second scarce. ESTC records two editions of 1788, one 11pp. (4 copies worldwide) and the other 15pp. (one copy in North America). This copy numbers 11pp.

HEANEY, Seamus 'Door into the Dark' The poet's second collection is in fine condition including the unclipped dust jacket, first edition, a Poetry Book Society Bulletin supplement with contribution from Heaney loosely inserted, Faber, 1969.

HEANEY, Seamus 'North' First edition, wrapper issue, very few hardbacks produced and these mostly went to libraries, Poetry Book Society Bulletin supplement with a contribution by Heaney is loosely inserted, fading to spine, Faber, 1975.

LARKIN, Philip 'The Whitsun Weddings' First edition, loosely inserted is a Poetry Book Society supplement with a contribution from Larkin, fine condition including unclipped dust jacket, Faber, 1964.Some very light sun bleaching to front panel of dj, a small amount of spotting to the top fore edge and spotting to the supplement.

Body and Raiment book. Sketches In Free Verse of People And Things Seen In The Interior.Collection of Chinese poetry. Depth: .5." Contains 58 pages. Artist: Eunice TietjensIssued: 1917Dimensions: 5.25"W x 7.75"HManufacturer: Alfred A Knopf, Inc.Country of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.

A large collection of erotic novels, art books and publications. To include Pin-Up: A Modest History, A Pictorial History Of Striptease, Sex and the British, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Erotic Poetry, Pink Samurai, Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage & Sex in Contemporary Japan, The Naughty Nineties: A Pop-up Book for Adults Only, Man Ray 1890-1976 (Taschen), Nudes of the '20s and '30s, Amsterdam Streetwalker, Erotica: Volume Four, Erotic Art (Taschen), Sex and Character (Otto Weininger), Erotic Antiques: Love is an Antic Thing, and Eros Kalos (Jean Marcade). 60+ in total.

A Large Quantity of Books, various subjects including: Plants, including trees and fungi; WWI/WWII; Heritage Buildings, including works on Westmorland and Cumberland; Scandinavia; Biographies, such as James Lees-Milne and Freya Stark; Art; Politics; Royal; Toynbee (Arnold) & history; Poetry and Verse, including Robert Burns and the Oxford Book of American Verse; etc. (17 Boxes)

Attwell (Mabel Lucie, illustrator). Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie, London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [1921?], 12 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), line illustrations to text, original pictorial light blue cloth gilt, 4to, together with:Goble (Warwick, illustrator), The Book of Fairy Poetry, edited by Dora Owen, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920, 16 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), few illustrations to text printed in black, pictorial endpapers with some offsetting to free endpapers, original pictorial cloth, 4to,Robinson (Charles), The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, London: Duckworth & Co., [1915], 12 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), illustrations and decorative initials to text, pictorial endpapers, original cloth, gilt-blocked spine, 4to,Robinson (William Heath), Old-Time Stories told by Master Charles Perrault, translated from the French by A. E. Johnson, London: Constable & Co Ltd., 1921, 6 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), illustrations to text (one neatly hand-coloured), occasional light scattered spotting, original cloth gilt with pictorial roundel to upper board, few blemishes mostly to rear board, 4to, plus other similar children's illustrated books etc., many in original pictorial cloth bindings, including some illustrated by Edmund DulacQTY: (24)

FIVE BOXES OF BOOKS & SHEET MUSIC containing approximately ninety-five miscellaneous book titles in hardback and paperback formats and a small collection of classical and popular music scores, book subjects include encyclopaedic works (ten volumes of The Children's Encyclopaedia and six volumes of Modern Electrical Engineering), atlases, history, gardening, poetry and classical and contemporary fiction (5 boxes)

Vellum bound c19th scrap book, containing hand-written prose, riddles, etc. and articles from the c18th and c19th glued to pages, articles covering odes, prose and poetry

CLARE, John (1793-1864). Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London, 1820, 12mo, half title, attractively bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.CLARE, John (1793-1864).  Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. By John Clare. A Northamptonshire Peasant. London: "Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street; and E. Drury, Stamford," 1820. 12mo (166 x 100mm). Half title, glossary at the end comprising L1-[L3] (spot to front blank, half title and title, some very faintly mainly marginal spotting and staining, without the publisher's advertisements [L4-L8], as often). Attractively bound in contemporary straight-grained panelled burgundy morocco decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (joints and corners rubbed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate with monogram [?]"H.L." and motto "Courage sans Peur"; "Lady Mary Lowther, 29th Feb. 1820, from Right Hon. [?illegible name]" (inscription on front free endpaper); "Taylor & Hessey Bookseller, Fleet Street" (blindstamp on rear endpaper). FIRST EDITION of the author's first published work. "The following Poems will probably attract some notice by their intrinsic merit; but they are also entitled to attention from the circumstances under which they were written. They are the genuine productions of a young Peasant, a day-labourer in husbandry, who has had no advantages of education beyond others of his class; and though Poets in this country have seldom been fortunate men, yet he is, perhaps, the least favoured by circumstances, and the most destitute of friends, of any that ever existed" (from the Introduction). Hayward English Poetry. A Descriptive Catalogue 236: "The poet's first book."

BINDINGS - Henry FIELDING (1707-54). The History of Tom Jones, London, 1915, 2 vols., large 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary burgundy morocco gilt by Hatchards. With various other works in 43 vols. bound in calf and morocco. (45)BINDINGS - Henry FIELDING (1707-54).  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915. 2 volumes, large 8vo (210 x 140mm). Half title, Title printed in red and black. Attractively bound in contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt by Hatchards, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut (head of upper joints of vol. one rubbed). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate); "To Anthony Eden, from Godfrey Locker-Lampson, With best wishes - New Year 1926" (inscription on front free endpaper). Godfrey Locker-Lampson (1875-1946) was a Conservative Member of Parliament and writer. He was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from December 1925 to June 1929 and a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations at Geneva in 1928, being appointed a Privy Counsellor in the same year. With various other works in 43 volumes bound in calf and morocco including Thomas Babington Macauley's The History of England ... Tenth Edition (London, 1854-61, 5 vols., large 8vo, contemporary half red morocco gilt, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden, with his very sparse pencil annotation and highlighting), Evelyn Ashley's The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (London, 1876, 2 vols., large 8vo, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces), Poggio Bracciolini's Les Facéties (Paris, 1878, 2 vols., 12mo, contemporary half calf gilt, NUMBER 451 OF 750 COPIES), Andrew Marvell's The Poems (London,1892, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary brown morocco gilt by H. Sotheran, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), Anthologia Graeca ad palatini codicis fidem edita (Leipzig, 1893, 3 vols., small square 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary limp vellum gilt with yapp edges), George Meredith's The Tale of Chloe (Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1899, tall 8vo, contemporary green calf by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt with red and tan morocco lettering pieces, spine faded, rubbed, inscribed, "Goonie [i.e. Lady Gwendeline Spencer-Churchill] from [?]L.L. 1913"), The Oxford Book of French Verse (Oxford, 1907, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt, inscribed, "To Lady Gwendeline Bertie [i.e. later Spencer-Churchill] on her marriage, with best wishes from [?]T.H.W, M.J.W. [initials indistinct], Magdalen College, Oxford"), The Pageant of English Poetry (London, 1909, 8vo, contemporary vellum-backed cloth boards, spine with green morocco lettering-piece and floral design stamped in gilt, the front free endpaper inscribed, "Anthony [Eden] with love - June 12th 1974. From Clarissa"), Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution (London, 1911, 2 vols., large 8vo, contemporary burgundy half calf gilt by Spottiswoode & Co., inscribed, "R. A. Eden [i.e. Anthony Eden], Brinckman Divinity Prize, Eton 1911"), Rudyard Kipling's Songs from Books (London, 1913, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco gilt by Truslove & Hanson, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), William Shakespeare's Works ... Gathered into One Volume ([London], 1947, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, with Anthony Eden's initials "R.A.E." [i.e. Robert Anthony Eden] stamped in gilt on the upper cover); together with an Islamic manuscript with some illumination bound in red morocco. The lot sold as a collection of bindings, not subject to return. (45)

Waring (Edward Scott) A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad, half-title, engraved frontispiece and plate, some water-staining, last leaf laid down, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original spine, [Wilson p.240; Ghani p.387; Diba p.222], 4to, 1807.⁂ The first edition of this work was published in Bombay in 1804. This London edition has a greatly expanded section on the language and poetry of Persia and was "an important book in its day as it constitutes one of the first attempts to introduce Persian poetry to the West." (Ghani)

Lewis (Clive Staples, writer and scholar, 1898-1963) 2 Autograph Letters signed Clive S Lewis to Cyril H. Hartman, an important correspondence on the proposed formation by Lewis, Hartman and Pasley of a literary coterie at Oxford: the first 6pp. & envelope, 8vo, Strandtown, Belfast, 25th July 1919, lamenting that he has had to go to Belfast for a "family circle" because his brother is leaving to go to Jamaica, taking a side swipe at "Sitwellism" before discussing an undergraduate theatrical project in ?Oxford, "... I am driven to the conclusion that we must rally round the theatre. The first play produced at this new place must be by one of us, preferably by you, it must be play we would like to have written if we didn't", suggesting a play by Hartman called Pauline, "we should get hold of lion-guests: Masefield is good and solid and we may hope for Yeats", folds; the second 3pp., sm. 4to, Oxford, University College, 1st September 1919, a wide ranging letter touching on various subjects, including, referring to a letter from Rodney Pasley about writing, "I wonder will the afterborn publish it as a blue-book when they look back and recognise us as one of the great formative influences of the 29th century?", his view at the time of the protestant church, "the consistent failure and approaching dissolution of the protestant Church", discussing the Sitwells, "It is no use to attack 'The Swiss family Sitwell' unless we offer something in its place", a discourse on literature, "Eccentricity is continually threatening to swallow literature... You say that we shall certainly not find a banner - but I think that the trouble is that we are beginning at the wrong end", and his annoyance with Pasley, "I am very sorry that Pasley published the 'Circus' it is quite unworthy of him", folds; together with 3 other pieces, comprising: (1). Pembroke College Martlets and University College, Oxford Martlets, printed menu signed "C.S. Lewis" and several others, in pencil, on card, ribbons on spine, 8vo, 9th March 1920 (2). Pasley (Rodney Marshall Sabine, university friend of C.S. Lewis, writer and editor, schoolteacher, 1899-1982) 2 Autograph Letters signed to Cyril H Hartman, together 8pp. & 1 envelope, 8vo, Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, August & 12th December 1919, about publishing an annual poetry volume, and his suggestion of calling it the Yearlings, disagreeing with Lewis's and Hartman's ideas on literature, "I am delighted to be able to disagree with both yourself and Lewis about having some 'definite banner' to march under. We are not all going to march in the same direction," and to prove his point, he confesses that he has just published his poem, The Circus in the Monthly Chapbook, "You remarked when you read it, that it was just what the Sitwell crowd would like to write," folds, 4to and 8vo (5 pieces).⁂ A fine group of early CS Lewis letters and related material hinting at his later involvement with the more famous "Inklings" of which Tolkien too was a member. "In Oxford a small college club, the Martlets, encouraged the literary and dialectical interests Lewis had been able to pursue while recovering from his wounds [from the First World War] in hospital. He met W. B. Yeats and formed lasting links with Owen Barfield, who became his solicitor and philosopher-critic." - Oxford DNB.Provenance: Private UK collection.

`I work constantly with Breton. This morning and this afternoon we wrote “The feeling of nature” ‘ ELUARD PAUL: (1895-1952) French Poet, widely considered one of the founders of the surrealist movement. A rare and very good content love letter, A.L.S., `Ton Paul´, one page, 12mo, n.p., Tuesday evening, n.d. [Summer 1930], to Marie Benz, Nush, in French. One of the very few letters by Eluard to Nush as they were almost never far one from each other until her death, the present one is written shortly after their first encounter. Eluard states `Ma petite Nush chérie, j´ai reçu ta lettre ce matin. Elle est très bien écrite et m´a consolé un peu de ne pas t´avoir auprès de moi´ (Translation: `My dear little Nush, I received your letter this morning. It is very well written and consoled me a little for not having you with me´) Eluard further refers to his work with André Breton, saying `Je travaille sans arrêt avec Breton. Ce matin et cet après-midi, nous avons écrit “Le sentiment de la nature” et ce soir nous faisons “Il n´y a rien d´incompréhensible”. Nous voulons avoir fini dans deux jours car je vais partir´ (Translation: `I work constantly with Breton. This morning and this afternoon we wrote “The feeling of nature” and this evening we are writing “There is nothing incomprehensible”. We want to have it done in two days because I'm leaving´) Further again, Eluard sends very warm words to the woman he is in love with, saying `Ma belle Nush, je pense à toi. Je t´aime, tu sais. Dis-moi bien tout ce que tu fais. Ecris-moi chaque jour. Je t´embrasse, je te tiens dans mes bras, je regarde tes beaux yeux. Ton Paul´ (Translation: `My beautiful Nush, I'm thinking of you. I love you, you know. Tell me everything you do. Write to me every day. I kiss you, I hold you in my arms, I look at your beautiful eyes. Your Paul´) With blank integral leaf. VG Maria Benz (1906-1946) Best known by her nickname “Nusch”. French Model and surrealist Artist. She was introduced to Eluard in 1930 by Man Ray and Pablo Picasso, getting married in 1934. They produced a surrealist photomontage and other work, and was the subject of "Facile," a collection of Éluard's poetry published as a photogravure book, illustrated with Man Ray´s nude photographs of her. She was also the subject of several cubist portraits and sketches by Picasso in the late 1930s, and is said to have had an affair with him. Nusch worked for the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. She died at the early age of 40 due to a stroke. During the summer of 1930, Paul Eluard and Andre Breton wrote jointly L´Immaculée Conception (“The Immaculate Conception”). The two prose poems mentioned in the present letter by Eluard, “Le sentiment de la nature” and “Il n´y a rien d´incompréhensible” are regarded as some of the most important examples of surrealist prose. 

Eleven mid century cloth bound illustrated books, to include Gulliver's Travels, colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, published by The Temple Press, London, Barrie (J M). Peter Pan and Wendy, My Picture Poetry Book, etc. (11)

The Dreams of Descartes by Jacques Maritain. First Edition. First Published in1946 by PL Editions Poetry London. Hardback book 173 Pages. Front sleeve slightly ripped; pages show signs of age. Spine in good order. Good Condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

Bardachd Ghaidhlig Specimens Of Gaelic Poetry. Second Edition. By William J. Watson. Published by A. Learmonth and Son. 401 pages. Hardback Book. Spine in Good Order. Good Condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

First edition of the royal folio green and blue "A Day Book" designed by Ronald Brooks Kitaj (American, 1932-2007) in consultation with poet Robert Creeley (American, 1926-2005). This poetry and art book contains silkscreens, etchings, and lithographs on canvas and on different papers. Each page was set in a different type face by Star Illustration, London with typography by Eugene Stuttman. All the plates are signed by R.B. Kitaj and numbered 199/200. Edition Graphis, Berlin. This exceptional item has its original green canvas casing and includes a red shaped ornament on its cover page. Book size: 16.80"L x 1"W x 24.50"H; size with case: 17"L x 1.50"W x 25"H. Artist: Robert Creeley and R.B. KitajIssued: 1972Edition Number: 199 of 200Country of Origin: United StatesProvenance: The Bass Museum of Art Condition: Good condition.

Walt Whitman Complete Poetry and Selected Prose and Letters Edited by Emory Holloway. First Edition. Published by The Nonesuch Press London. 1116 pages. Outer Paper Cover Torn. Hardback Book. Spine in Good Order. Good ConditionSold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

HAMILTON (IAN)A significant series of 88 autograph and typed letters signed ('Ian') to the poet John Fuller (mostly 'My dear John'), the earliest (10 June 1959) enclosing the first issue of Tomorrow ('I would be most interested to hear what you think of it...'), the last in late 2001 ('... As to the illness, it is the big C, I'm afraid... I made the mistake of going to the docs for some quite other thing'), but the vast majority from Sixties relating to their joint work on The Review (detailing strong views on contemporary poets and poetry, progress in finding contributions, finances and practicalities), his reviewing duties (for T.L.S., The Guardian, etc.), and organising a literary programme for the Chichester Festival, as well as private matters relating to his marriage to Gisela Dietzel, money problems, etc., together approximately 130 pages, including airmail letters with integral address, letter cards headed 'The Review', etc. from various addresses (including T.L.S. office), various sizes, June 1959-late 2001, but the majority 1960s; together with complete runs of Tomorrow, The Review, and The New Review, a first edition in dust-jacket of Hamilton's The Visit. Poems (1970), various pieces of ephemera (small archive)Footnotes:'HAVE A POEM FROM LARKIN - PRETTY FEEBLE REALLY BUT PRINTABLE - I'LL SEND TO YOU A COPY '(15 Nov. 1962).A rich series of letters from the poet, literary critic and magazine editor Ian Hamilton (1938-1963) written to the poet John Fuller who was his main collaborator on the influential poetry magazine The Review, edited by Hamilton, 1962-1972. The majority were written during the early sixties, when Fuller was teaching in Buffalo, USA and then Manchester, but heavily involved in all aspects of the magazine [see provenance].Shortly after the first issue had appeared (April/May 1962) Hamilton writes 'Is it worth going on with The Review, you ask... we thought that there was a need for a good, selective, hard-hitting poetry magazine, and we might be able to provide one. Of course, all the cards are stacked against us... We are not, I agree, a close-knit group or anything like one - we don't agree about a lot of things, perhaps very basic things (for example, I loathe leisured 'witty' knowing poetry, I loathe that which is assured because it has so little to be in doubt about... I could go on and list my prejudices... [but] what I am personally convinced is that... you, Francis, Falk and Fried are talented, perceptive, rigorous, and for all your possible differences you make up a group that will generate ideas... [we must not] be utterly demoralised by every trifling set back... And it is more important still not to settle for any old second best... I intend to go on with the thing and hope you will be able to, also', capturing the tone of his, at times, messianic belief in the importance of poetry, and his notoriously forthright opinions, which are expressed throughout the letters. For example, '[Peter] Redgrove I am increasingly less sure about - he seems inventive enough, but that's the point - its all invention: no discrimination, he's overawed by his own fecundity: (in every sense)', 'Edwin Morgan delivered on Macdiarmid and it is'nt too bad at all', and (12 March 1963) 'You heard about Sylvia Plath's death, I guess. App. Hughes had just moved out. Awful. Lucie-Smith wrote to say 'touche - one laughs while one winces and to say how much he hated Roy's poems'.Elsewhere Hamilton expresses his disdain for the influential critic Edward Lucie-Smith ('I keep getting letters from the scrawny, little cock suggesting we meet when he's next in Oxford and all - we must keep cool.'. The issue (October 1963 issue No. 9) devoted to Plath (including 9 recent poems, 2 of which did not subsequently appear in Ariel) was a success, Hamilton writing 'Orders for Plath are pouring in - the Guardian review helped a lot i think - all the main London bookshops have sold out & re-ordered'. Of fellow critic (and supporter of the magazine) Al Avarez's review of a Roy Cambpell volume he states it 'was a disgrace... all his remarks could have been applicable to any dull Movement poet, there was no indication of any sort that he had opened the book, I mean - not one hint, even'. Writing in October 1965, having reviewed Roy Fuller's latest poems for London Magazine he confesses to John that 'I really don't agree very basically with all kinds of technical premises and have said so... one is left more or less assenting that if this and that is true about poetry now, then there really is perhaps no way of writing the stuff. I hope that you and Roy won't hate the review', and feels free to write 'I have'nt made a change to your poem yet, John - it's at the printer. I don't feel comfortable at the responsibility you've so flatteringly handed me... I am irritated whenever (especially in a rhyming poem) I find line-break cutting in on the natural shape of movement of a statement... I am made suddenly aware of how artificial the form is, how pre-judged etc... the struggle is always between experience and form, of course...'. Commenting on a group of poems sent to him by Fuller, Hamilton chooses 'Manzu' and 'Letchworth Park' as 'the best... both seem to have a more movement which I like, there is a voice in them and the images are nicely fractional and alive. I only have one tiny quibble which I know you'll reject and that is the first line of the fourth stanza of Letchworth. Can't the 'on' go the beginning of the next line and the hell with metre...'. Fuller evidently took on board the suggestion as when the poem appeared in issue No.8 of The Review Hamilton's suggestion had been followed.Amongst the letters are many proof copies of Hamilton's own poems, sent for Fuller for comment, for example (2 Oct. 1962) 'Been re-reading Prufrock - could, do you think - Prufrock be a poet, an urban 20C synthesiser and the woman his audience... the last line could be simply an exercise in escapist poetics... The only thing I've brought to completion is the enclosed (not title yet) which I offer for your comments, and to print if you wish. Feel no qualms about rejecting, John, really'. The poem, in greatly altered form was printed as 'Windfall' in Pretending not to sleep. Poems by Ian Hamilton issued as Pamphlet Series No. 3. of The Review (1964). Asking for Fuller's thoughts he sends on a copy of the poem ('effort') 'Wild Oats' offered to The Review by Philip Larkin and quotes Larkin's accompanying message ('I wonder if the enclosed snatch of pseud-autobiography would be of any interest to you? Three guineas, first British rights only'. The poem appeared in issue No.5. The letters convey Hamilton's immersion in all aspects of the magazine, for example writing (undated 1962) 'Baddish news and, I'm afraid, more requests. [Michael] Fried has suddenly welched on his marker [no longer providing an essay on the New American Poetry]... [instead he] has been amassing new and more lucrative assignments. Which leaves me strictly embedded in the shit', (15 Nov. 1962) 'The Eliot no. appeared in all its glory (it really does look rather good) on Friday... On Monday an irateish letter from W.E. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

POUND (EZRA)Personae, THE POET'S OWN COPY, inscribed 'Ezra Pound his book' on front paste-down, and with the poem 'Marvoil' on p.51 marked up in pencil for reading aloud, 1909; Exultations, 2-PAGE POEM 'SESTINA: ALTAFORE' MARKED UP IN INK AND PENCIL BY THE AUTHOR, 1909, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, publisher's boards, titled in gilt on upper covers and spines, extremities of spines slightly rubbed [Gallup A3(a); Gallup A4(a)], 8vo, Elkin Matthews (2)Footnotes:EZRA POUND'S OWN COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUES OF HIS THIRD AND FOURTH BOOKS OF POETRY, EACH WITH ONE POEM MARKED UP FOR READING ALOUD. In Exultations Pound has extensively marked up the poem 'Sestina: Altafore' for reading aloud, underlining words or syllables for emphasis, a couple of words with spellings corrected, and with notes in margin 'read', 'fast', etc.Of the 1000 sets of sheets printed for each work, approximately only 500 were issued, the remainder later being used for the 1913 issue when both works were bound together.Provenance: Roy Fuller (1912-1991, poet), with handwritten note 'Exultations. Personae. Ezra's own copies (bought by me at Foyles for 6d. each, found among a mass of Nelson's 7d novels etc.)' on an envelope addressed to Fuller at Blackheath, stamped 24 May 1973, and a one-page note in pencil loosely inserted; John Fuller, poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, publisher's printed paper wrappers ('Not for Sale. Nor for review or serialization without the publisher's permission. Publication date not yet settled'), [1965]; Ariel, FIRST EDITION, ROY FULLER'S COPY, with his signature on front free endpaper, with one pencil amendment on p.23, and 12-lines of pencil notes ('11 [Moring Song] Examples of compression. Fundamentally 10 2 6 metre... 20 [Tulips] 7-line stanzas...') by Fuller, and printed 'Poetry Book Society Bulletin No. 44' (with review of 'Ariel') loosely inserted, publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket (spine soiled), [1965]; The Colossus, FIRST EDITION, ROY FULLER'S COPY with signature inside upper cover, Heinemann, [1960]; Crossing the Water, FIRST EDITION, 1971, all but the first publisher's cloth, dust-jackets , 8vo; and 3 others with contributions by Sylvia Plath, including 'Gemini 2. Summer 1957' (7)Footnotes:Provenance: Roy Fuller (1912-1991), poet, with his ownership inscription in two of the works. Fuller wrote a review of The Colossus for The London Magazine, March 1961; John Fuller, poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Finlay, Ian Hamilton (1925-2006) An extensive collection of letters, sent to Wilma Paterson Over 50 letters, dating from the 1970s to 1990s, many typed and several handwritten, all signed; many small items of ephemera, such as small Christmas cards, including: ‘National Flags Series, Arcadia’, referred to in one of the letters, with a hand-drawn skull and crossbones to the reverse; 1990 Little Sparta Christmas Card [potatocut robin/linocut garden fork/ wood-engraved tree] contained in small manilla envelope printed ‘A Valentine’; Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1986, with image of a pear; ‘Larder’, a small book of words on orange and green; Finlay, Ian Hamilton. Wildwachsende Blumen… Staedtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus, 1993. Small 12mo, original brown clothNote: Note: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s complex and wide-ranging practice resists categorisation. He became the leading proponent of 'concrete poetry', employing words and poetic forms for visual effect. Finlay's writing was thus his art, and this took another turn when he applied his poetic-artistic theory to gardening, creating Little Sparta at his home in Stonypath, South Lanarkshire, from the md-1960s onwards. Ian Hamilton Finlay's vision of art encompassed the meeting of poetry, visual art, gardening and sculpture, and his relationship with The Establishment was far from straightforward. He famously once wrote: "If I hear the words Arts Council, I reach for my water pistol", however his deviation from recognised artistic norms has meant that his output can be described as one of the most significant contributions to Scottish art of the 20th century. As a conceptual artist, he often devised projects, rather than making them himself, and employed collaborators to bring his ideas to life.The archive presented here is candid and highly personal, written by Ian Hamilton Finlay to one of his collaborators, Wilma Patterson. The collection documents a close and lasting friendship between the pair, displaying Hamilton Finlay's slightly cantankerous, yet caring, nature. Several of these letters are addressed to Paterson in her capacity as a musician: Hamilton Finlay hoped to create a film entitled 'Fifies and Zulus', with Paterson's collaboration, in addition to a potential suite of 'national anthems' to accompany his 'national flags' series.Alongside providing a record of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work with Wilma Paterson, the archive reveals much about Hamilton Finlay's passions, insecurities and moods. Writing in 1990, Hamilton Finlay declares:I am about to be in the middle of my big Berlin project, which will be wonderful if it is realised, but nowadays I get into gloomy moods in which I think, Well, how super this could be, but of course I wont [sic.] live to see it realised…..and in another, undated, letter:Do you ever feel you are a genius? I do, quite often. Other times I think I am just hopeless.Ian Hamilton Finlay’s letters often have a humorous, sardonic tone, which can be seen here. He does not shy away from self-congratulation, often ironically, writing in 1974 (regarding his ‘National Flags’ series of postcards):The wit (of course) consists in my (inspired) realisation that the skull in the Poussin painting has exactly the weight/force of the skull in the Pirate Flag…Other notes reference some of his well-known works, such as this bizarre occurrence relating to his Diana and Actaeon on 1st December 1992:My missing monument to Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, which was stolen from a tree in Munster in 1987, has been found! (Did I tell you this?) It was in the garden of a lady who thought herself on very good terms with the Transcendental and supposed that my plaque arrived in her garden as a message to her from The Beyond.

A selection of hardback books, primarily relating to art and antiques, titles including: An Introduction to Italian Painting, by C. J. Holmes; Georgian Cabinet-Makers, by Ralph Edwards; The Poetry of Architecture, by John Ruskin; Sketching in Water Colours, by James Steuart; Art Nouveau, by Mario Amaya; A Thousand and One Fore-Edge Paintings, by Carl J. Weber; The Art of the Book, by Bernard H. Newdigate; Furniture in the Ancient World, by Hollis S. Baker; and others, contained across two boxes.

(1) Textos y Antitextos. Madrid, Parnaso 70, 1970. Softcover, 19 x 17.5 cm, 40 pp. First edition of 850 copies. Striking concrete poems printed in various colours, with a short text in Spanish. Seminal Spanish visual poetry publication. (2) Prosae. Madrid, Editorial Garsi, 1980. Softcover, 24.5 x 18.5 cm, unpag. Added are two copies of the artists' book, one signed and numbered 95/750 in colophon (with wear on spine), one unnumbered/unsigned. All covers with moderate shelf wear, interiors fine. (total 3) Active since the late 1960s, Fernando Millán (1953) is an important Spanish theorist and promoter of experimental poetry in all its forms, such as visual poetry, textual poetry, object books/poems, action poetry, video poetry.

Heaney, Seamus, et al. Responses, signed, National Book League and The Poetry Society, 1971, edition of 500, Fo. on handmade paper, bright red wrappers in black, pp43, uncut, signed by Seamus Heaney at his contribution 'A Servant Boy' on page 24. 'Responses' is a collection of 19 poems by different authors.

A WW I Victory medal, naming 5252 PTE. C.L. GORDON 16-LOND. R., together with the accompanying discharge certificate, a diary recalling "Important Dates" the first entry being March 21st 1918, and a book of hand written poetry. (4)

Shakespeare source book.- Fraunce (Abraham) The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe, first edition, title within typographic border, woodcut head-pieces and initials, folding table after 2I2, 2A2 blank, a few ink annotations, some light mostly marginal water-staining, modern calf, [STC 11344], 4to, Imprinted by William How, for Thomas Gubbin, and T. Newman, 1588.⁂ 'From this work Shakespeare is supposed to have acquired some of his legal knowledge'. (Sweet & Maxwell I p. 167 no. 12). One of 3 variants, with different imprints. Fraunce was a poet as well as a lawyer and this work includes quotations from poetry and prose alongside his important use of logic in legal argument.Provenance: Birmingham Law Library (circular ink stamp to title and several other leaves).

MEARY JAMES THURAIRAJH TANBIMUTTU (Ed): POETRY LONDON/APPLE MAGAZINE, London 1979, vol 1 numbers 1 and 2, first editions, number 2 with record in pocket at end, 4to original pictorial wraps plus THEATER OF ALL POSSIBILITIES, London, Editions Poetry London, 1980 first edition, 4to, original pictorial wraps, book plate of John Amfanwy Piper, plus PATRICK KAVANAGH: LOUGH DERG, London, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1978 first edition, 4to, original cloth d/w, vgc plus EZRA POUND: CANTO C X, trans Pierre Alien [Paris] L'Herne, 1967 first edition in English and French, unopened, folio original wraps, plus DAVID RAIKES: THE POEMS OF DAVID RAIKES, intro Charles Wrinch, Eynsham Oxford, Fantasy Press 1954 first edition, signed and inscribed by Charles Wrinch, original cloth plus THOMAS HARDY: YULETIDE IN A YOUNGER WORLD, ill Albert Rutherton, London, Faber & Faber [1927] first edition, ariel poes number 1 original wraps plus JEFF NUTTALL: THE CASE OF ISABEL AND THE BLEEDING FOETUS, London, Turret Books 1967 (500) (400), original cloth d/w, plus IAIN HAMILTON: EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERA, intro Sir John Betjaman, London, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1974 (50) signed and inscribed "One of the Few Remaining ....the Publishers Gave Me", original cloth d/w (9)

EDWARD BYSSHE: THE ART OF ENGLISH POETRY VOL THE THIRD AND FOURTH WHICH WITH THE TWO FORMER VOLUMES MAKE A COMPLEAT COMMON-PLACE-BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY..., London, printed for W Taylor, 1718, 2 vols, 12mo, contemporary calf worn, armorial book plates of Sir William Pitt of Binfield Berks (2)

THE GERM THOUGHTS TOWARDS NATURE IN POETRY LITERATURE AND ART BEING A FACSIMILE REPRINT OF THE LITERARY ORGAN OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD PUBLISHED IN 1850 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSETTI, London, Elliot Stock, 1901, comprising the four issues in original brown printed wraps, number 2 with part loss of top wrap, the preface by Rosetti, original wraps lettered in red, together with William Michael Rosetti autograph letter signed to Mr Ireland dated 11 Feb 1905, Endsleigh Gardens headed notepaper, four autographed pages "...I do not possess a copy of the Oxford & Cambridge Magazine if I had one to examine I should be able to name the authors of several of the articles but certainly not all...", housed in purpose leather backed marble boards book box

An exceptional and rare WW2 and Post WW2 era medal group and photo archive to 908535 L/Cpl Gerald Hutchinson 1st S.A.S.Including a full size group of 7 medals, corresponding miniatures, WW2 era and Post WW2 era cloth badges, a WW2 era and later photograph album with many unpublished images, a 1st S.A.S. Regiment certificate signed by Paddy Mayne, a ‘Soldiers Service & Pay Book’, plus various post war association membership cards, pay books etc (where his unit is listed as 21st S.A.S. Artists Regt), a 1945 dated telegram informing Gerald of the birth of his son (addressed to HQ Sqd 1st S.A.S.), a scarce 21st S.A.S Regt (Artists) T.A. Christmas card, plus published books relating to the S.A.S.,3 scrap books with newspaper clippings relating to the S.A.S compiled by Gerald in his later life, and a book of poetry written by Gerald in the WW2 era and post war era.Notes: Gerald Hutchinson (1922-1989) started his military career with service in the Royal Artillery 72nd Field Regiment, then later with the Royal Artillery Territorials.His tracer card also clearly mentions ‘Special Raiding Squad 1 SAS’.His medal group is mounted for wear, and includes the 1939-45 Star, the Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, the Italy Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal, 1939-45 War Medal, and the Territorial Efficiency Medal which is named to the edge as ‘908535 Pte G. Hutchinson Para.Regt’.His miniature medal group is also mounted for wear, but additionally the Territorial Efficiency Medal has 2 additional clasps for longer service (these are absent from the full size version).The 1st S.A.S. Regt card certificate certifies that L/Cpl Hutchinson served in the 1st Special Air Service Regiment from 05.06.42 to 16.11.45, during the following campaigns - Western Desert Italy.It also details his campaign stars awarded.This is dated 16.11.45 and is signed, albeit faintly by Lieut-Col Paddy Mayne.The cloth insignia includes a WW2 era set of embroidered wings, a post WW2 set of wings, a post WW2 1st S.A.S. Shoulder title, 2 bullion embroidered badges (the cap badge is possibly WW2 era), and a white screen printed badge, likely from a ski outfit, given its colour.The photograph album contained ‘snapshot’ images of Gerald and fellow servicemen within the regiment.Notably, these include images seemingly taken in North Africa, plus on ski manoeuvres in the Cedars of Lebanon circa 1943.The photograph of Paddy Mayne on the first page we believe is an already published image.The album is a fascinating archive of images relating to the S.A.S from the WW2 era through to the mid 1950’s.The majority of which will be so far unpublished so far as we can ascertain.There are a few loose photographs, one of which show L/Cpl Hutchinson smoking a pipe, and given the type of side cap he is wearing, this will date from circa 1942.According to information supplied by the vendor, Gerald moved to Canada after his service with the armed forces, where he took a job as a miner.He later worked for the DHSS up until his retirement.This is an incredible and rare archive charting the service of one man in one of the world’s most famous regiments.Please note: due to quantity of photographs and items within this archive, not all items are shown in the images.Condition: generally very good throughout.Normal light service wear to the medal groups and the cloth insignia.The photograph album and loose photographs show a little wear and tear, but are mostly in good condition.The paper ephemera shows normal wear, but the details contained on them remains legible.The remaining scrapbooks, publications and other items are mostly good, with just light wear and tear. 

Lang (Andrew, editor). The Blue Poetry Book, The True Story Book, The Book of Romance, The Animal Story Book, mixed editions, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891-1908, colour and monochrome illustrations by H.J. Ford and others, occasional light spotting, contemporary presentation inscriptions to two titles, all edges gilt, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, slight fading to spines, 8vo, together with Penelope's English Experiences/Penelope's Experiences in Scotland/Penelope's Irish Experiences, illustrated by C.E. Brock, mixed editions 1901-02, and George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1906QTY: (8)

Rengifo (Juan Diaz). Arte Poetica Espanola, con una fertilissima sylva de consonantes comunes, proprios, esdruxulos, y reflexos, y vn diuino Eestimulo del Amor de Dios, 1st edition, Salamanca: Miguel Serrano de Vargas, 1592, [12], 324, 40 pp. (pi4, *2, A-2R4, 2S2, a-e4), old ownership inscription to foot of title (probably late 17th or early 18th century), folding letterpress table, some manuscript additions to the lists of vocabulary, a few marks and crease to title, small light waterstain to foot of first few leaves, contemporary limp vellum, yapp fore-edges, lightly rubbed and marked, lacks ties, 4to (198 x 144 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Jesuit College of Vergara (inscription to foot of title-page).Palau 72824.Rare. Only one copy in the UK (Bodleian). Juan Diaz Rengifo was the pseudonym (using his brother's name) of the Jesuit father Diego Garcia (1553/4-1615) who was born in Avila, and studied theology at the University of Salamanca. His Arte Poetica Espanola became the standard manual of poetic metre during the Spanish Golden Age in the 17th and 18th centuries. As a poetry manual, the first section explains various poetic forms and meters, giving brief examples of each. The Divino Estimulo del Amor de Dios (Divine Stimulus of God’s Love) is then offered as a more extensive example of the application of rhyme and meter. The final part of the book has a glossary of rhyming words to be used in writing poetry with the silva meter.

Rexroth (Kenneth). In Defense of the Earth, 1st edition, New York: New Directions, 1956, author's signed presentation inscription to front endpaper 'Wish much love to Derek Savage, Mevagissey, summer 1959, Kenneth Rexroth', original blue cloth, some spotting and fading, in dustwrapper, chipped with a little loss to edges, a little darkened to spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:With a typewritten airmail letter by Kenneth Rexroth to Derek Savage, dated San Francisco, January 222, 1951, plus a signed typewritten poem 'Lament for Dylan Thomas' (2 sheets), both loosely inserted.Derek Savage (1917-2007) was an anarchist poet and critic, and author of The Personal Principal: Studies in Modern Poetry (1944), and The Withered Branch: Six Studies of the Modern Noval (1950). Rexroth's letter to him is a lively survey of current politics and literature. 'What seems to be really wrong with England is the still potent systemised hypocrisy of the C of E.... I don't agree with you about Read. The money he makes seems to me made in an ethical enough way for these days....I don't care if he drinks Chateux Lafitte every night for dinner... I grew up in Chicago in a circle of hard drinking, hard fighting I. W. W. S. real tough sons of bitches. I think they would scare not only Newton, or Adeane but possibly even Woodcock' 'Mysticism-Evelyn Underhill is still one of the best. Have you read the English Mystics? Richard Rolle, Julia of Norwich, The Cloud of Unknowing... Alchemy-do you Thomas Vaughn? his collected works were edited by Waite... Miller's last book - supposed to be his Magnum Opus - The Rosy Crucifixion- of which the first part, Sexus, has been published is simply dreadful. Even his zheeter boog followers of the Cave's of St. Germain found it bad. No one in England seems to realise how close the USA is to war. I think there is very little chance of them not starting it in the next two or three months. Unless they have some superbomb up their sleeves, they are sure to loose.... Hatred of Russia has become a constant mass psychosis...'.

Middleton (Christopher). Poems, 1st edition, London: The Fortune Press, 1944, original red cloth in pale blue dustwrapper, 8vo, authors presentation copy inscribed to front endpaper 'K. J. F. Bickersteth under whose auspices the seed of this book took to earth. In gratitude, Christopher Middleton, July 1944', together withWoodcock (George). The White Island, 1st edition, Fortune Press [1940], original black cloth in grey dustwrapper, spine darkened, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, authors presentation copy, inscribed 'to Derek Savage in friendship, from George Woodcock. Sept. 1940', plusRodgers (W. R.). Awake! and other Poems, reprinted, Secker & Warburg, 1941, some light spotting, original cloth, rubbed and some spotting, spine discoloured, 8vo, with pencil ownership inscription to front endpaper 'from W. S. Graham, Cornwall August 1944', and Corman (Cid). A Table in Provence, poems by Cid Corman, drawings by Barnet Rubinstein, 1st edition, Origin Press, 1959, monochrome collotype reproductions after Rubinstein, original cloth-backed card covers, rubbed and somewhat toned, oblong folio, limited edition 168/200, signed by the author, and other modern poetry, including Robert Kelly, Songs I-XXX, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Pym-Randall Press 1968, limited signed edition 42/90 from a total edition of 1000, Stuart Montgomery, Circe & Shabby Sunshine 1st editions 1969/73 respectively, each inscribed by the author, Les A, Murray, The Boys who Stole the Funeral, 1st edition, 1980, Lorine Niedecker, My Life by Water, Collected Poems 1936-1968, 1st edition, Fulcrum Press, 1970, limited signed editon 80/100, Robert Garioch, Chuckies on the Cairn, 1ste ediiton, Chalmers Press, circa 1940, signed, Anne Stevenson, William Corbett, Laura Riding, FT Prince, Bernard Kops (Poems 1955, limited signed edition of 100 copies), Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, and others, many signed, original cloth, and many in original printed wrappers, 8vo or slim 8voQTY: (approx. 90)

Quevedo y Villegas (Francisco Gómez de). El Parnasso Español [edited by Jose Antonio Gonzalez de Salas], Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera for Pedro Coello, 1648, 7 full-page engraved plates by Juan de Noort and Herman Panneels after Alonso Cano: the crowning of Quevedo by Apollo and the nine Castilian muses, and six individual muses corresponding to the six parts of the book (Clio, Polymnia, Melpomene, Erato, Terpsichore, and Thalia), title with late 18th or early 19th century ink ownership annotation 'De la libreria de San Antonio Abad, Madrid' (some marks and repairs, with upper portion of the leaf replaced in careful facsimile), a few minor ink annotations, some browning and marks throughout, small archival repairs to extreme lower margin of final two leaves, modern antique-style brown full calf, spine lettered in gilt, small 4to (196 x 140 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Libreria di San Antonio Abad, Madrid (inscription to title-page).Palau 244329.Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645) is regarded as one of the great poets of the Spanish Golden Age, and master of the baroque style known as 'conceptismo', a complex form of expression containing elaborate conceits and wordplay and addressing ethical and philosophical concerns, in addition to traditional poetic subjects such as love, desire, and death, similar to the metaphysical poetry of his English near-contemporary John Donne. Quevedo's poems were unpublished durung his own lifetime, but were assembled posthumously by his friend Jusepe Antonio Gonzalez de Salas and first published in 1648 in this edition. All 17th-century editions are rare.

A BOX AND A CASE OF LITERARY RECORDS, to include approximately fifty lps and 78s, plays and poetry with some folk and classical music, including Arnold Ridley 'The Ghost Train', Ewan Maccoll & Peggy Seeger 'The Long Harvest', The Globe Shakespeare Company 'Macbeth' and 'Julius Caesar', T S Eliot reads Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Dylan Thomas reading Poem on His Birthday and other poems, etc (1 box + 1 case) (sd)