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  • Poet’s Poems No. 8 Robert Creeley

    £8.50

    First published in 2001 by AGGIE WESTON’S EDITIONS. One of a series of Poet’s Poems pamphlets co-ordinated by poet Stuart Mills,  (1940–2006) co-founder of the Tarasque Press and designed by Colin Sackett. 20cm by 14cm cream wraps. A selection of poems by other poets chosen by Robert Creeley. Includes Losing Track by Denise Levertov and…

  • Poet’s Poems No.16 Adrian Mitchell

    £8.00

    First published in 2003 by AGGIE WESTON’S EDITIONS. One of a series of Poet’s Poems pamphlets co-ordinated by poet Stuart Mills,  (1940–2006) co-founder of the Tarasque Press and designed by Colin Sackett. 20cm by 14cm cream wraps. A selection of poems by other poets chosen by Adrian Mitchell who writes: “So here are eight poems…

  • Poet’s Poems No.5 Edwin Morgan

    £8.50

    First published in 2001 by AGGIE WESTON’S EDITIONS. One of a series of Poet’s Poems pamphlets co-ordinated by poet Stuart Mills,  (1940–2006) co-founder of the Tarasque Press and designed by Colin Sackett. 20cm by 14cm cream wraps. A selection of poems by other poets chosen by Edwin Morgan, including poems by Auden, Manley Hopkins, Blake,…

  • Poet’s Poems No.9 Iain Sinclair

    £8.50

    First published in 2002 by AGGIE WESTON’S EDITIONS. One of a series of Poet’s Poems pamphlets co-ordinated by poet Stuart Mills,  (1940–2006) co-founder of the Tarasque Press and designed by Colin Sackett. 20cm by 14cm cream wraps. A selection of poems by other poets chosen by Iain Sinclair who writes: “The task of nominating favoured,…

  • Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes

    £3.00

    Faber, 2008. Reprint. 20cm by 12.5cm, 124 pages. First published in 1967 and sub-titled “A Handbook for Writing and Teaching.” Condition: covers slightly edge-worn and pages uniformly browned.

  • Present Lives Future Becoming by Cosmo Pieterse and George Hallett 1974

    £35.00

    Sub-titled: A South African Landscape in words and pictures, this collection of poetry, prose and photos is by eminent South African playwright, poet, literary critc, Pieterse and fellow South African, George Hallett, known for his work during Apartheid and the country’s early democracy. First edition. Hickey Press, Surrey, 1974. 29.5cm x 21cm, 90 pages illustrated…

  • Puffin Post Vol 8 No.2 1974 ed. Kaye Webb

    £5.00

    Published by Puffin (Penguin) Books, Puffin Post was the magazine of The Puffin Club, which was the brainchild of Puffin Books’ editor, Kaye Webb. The club was born in 1967 after Kaye persuaded Sir Allen Lane, the owner of Penguin Books, that the club would make children into adult readers. This edition from 1974 measures…

  • Rat City Poems from Northern Ireland by Mike Jenkins

    £15.00

    Edge Press, Barry, Wales, 1979.  Published in a limited edition of 300 copies. 21cm by 14.5cm,  22 pages. Jenkins is a Welsh poet born in 1953 and has been published for over 40 years. This pamphlet is one of his earliest. Jenkins is also the father of  Plaid Cymru politician Bethan Sayed  and  the journalist…

  • San Camilo, 1936 by Camilo José Cela

    £4.00

    Duke University Press, 1998. Third Printing in paperback. 23.5cm by 14.5cm 302 pages. Translated from Spanish by John H.R. Holt.  Cela was winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. Condition: front cover slightly sunned towards spine, covers slightly soiled and edge-worn but contents clean. Appears unread.

  • Sea Garden by H.D. 1975

    £15.00

    St. James Press, London, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1975. Sea Garden was first published in 1916. This reprint is photographed from the copy in University of London library. Part of the Poetry Reprint Series: Set One featuring Robert Graves, Wallace Stevens, John Betjeman, Conrad, Aiken and H.D.  This copy is from the library of…

  • Selected Poems 1963-1983 by Charles Simic

    £8.00

    Secker & Warburg, 1986. First edition. Paperback 21.5cm by 14cm, 186 pages. From the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: faded to top left hand edge of front cover and spine, some edge-wear but clean contents.

  • Selected Poems by Denise Levertov

    £8.00

    Bloodaxe Books, 1986. First edition. 21cm by 14cm, 189 pages. Back cover declares “This new SELECTED POEMS covers all Denise Levertov’s collections up to Candles in Babylon (1982).” From the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: White spine a little browned with age plus light edge-wear to covers.

  • Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam

    £3.50

    Penguin, 1977. Penguin Modern European Poets series. Translated by Clarence Brown and W.S. Merwin. 20cm by 13cm, 138 pages. Includes insightful Introduction by Clarence Brown on this Russian poet who died on his way to a Siberian labour camp. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003)….

  • Smack Family Robinson by Richard Bean

    £4.00

    Oberon Modern Plays, [2003]. A play presented at Live Theatre, Newcastle and first performed there 20th May to 14th June 2003. This 21cm by 13cm, 88 page paperback lists original cast and production staff and includes the script of this “darkly disturbing comedy” set in Whitley Bay. Condition: Ticket for the play from 28th May…

  • Spring In This World of Poor Mutts by Joseph Ceravolo

    £15.00

    Published for the Frank O’Hara Foundation at Columbia University Press, 1968. First edition. A Frank O’Hara Award Book. 21cm by 14cm green hardback 85 pages. This book was the first one to win the Frank O’Hara Award for Poetry. At the time Ceravolo was 34 years old and a civil engineer as well as a…

  • Strange Singing by Sandy Chadwin

    £3.00

    Private printing, 2020. 21cm by 14.5cm, 22 pages. Poetry pamphlet by poet and storyteller, Sandy Chadwin. Condition: white card wraps a little shelf-worn.

  • Strix magazine No. 3 Spring 2018

    £5.00

    Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Glyn Edwards, Tom Kelly, Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Jayne Shipley and more. Condition:  Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.

  • Strix magazine No. 5 Autumn 2018

    £5.00

    Poetry and Short Fiction magazine printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Ian Harker, Arji Manuelpillai and more. Condition: Covers slightly soiled and edge-worn.

  • Strix magazine No. 6 Winter/Spring 2019

    £5.00

    Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by SJ Bradley,  Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Lydia Harris, Avril Joy and more. Condition:  Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.

  • Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

    £4.00

    Granta, 2011. First paperback edition. Nearly 20cm by 13cm, 331 pages. “An intoxicating brew of keen-edged satire, social prophecy, linguistic exuberance and emotional wallop” David Mitchell. Condition: an unread copy with shelf-wear to bottom edge.

  • Svetislav Stefanovich signed card plus book

    £45.00

    Svetislav Stefanovich (1877-1944) was a poet, critic, translator, essayist, drama writer and doctor. He was founder of the Department of Pathology and President and founder of the Yugoslav Medical Association. Stefanovich participated in the Balkan Wars and the First World War and was decorated several times. During WW2 he was accused of defamation of the…

  • The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim and Ron by Ron Padgett and Jim Dine

    £15.00

    Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. 27.5cm by 20.5cm colour illustrated wraps. Unpaginated (120pp.). Poems by Padgett and illustrations by Dine. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Cover edges and spine slightly worn. Pages slightly browned with age.

  • The Birth Rug by Iain Sinclair

    £30.00

    Albion Village Press, 1973 in an edition of 200. Blue and silver wraps and blue pages filled with poetry and images, 21.5cm by 14.5cm.  From  the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003)  Condition: There are brown marks on spine plus front and rear wraps from sunning but contents clean an…

  • The Blind Men and the Elephant by Bernth Lindfors

    £5.00

    Africa World Press, Inc, 1999. First printing. 21.5cm by 14cm colour illustrated paperback with 200 pages. The full title is The Blind Men and the Elephant and other essays  in biographical criticism and looks at the lives and works of writers including Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Wole Soyinka and others. Condition: Slight edge-wear, flyer for…

  • The Blue Winged Bee by Peter Whigham. INSCRIBED.

    £15.00

    Anvil Press Poetry, 1965. 18cm by 14cm, 61 pages, brown cloth boards in yellow dustwrapper. Includes Love Poems of the VIth Dalai Lama and The Ingathering of Love. First edition but not one of the 50 signed by the author. However, this copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard…

  • The Carpathians by Janet Frame 1989

    £5.00

    First UK paperback by Pandora, 1989. Fantastic fiction by New Zealand’s Janet Frame. Almost 20cm by 13cm 196 pages. Condition: Page edges browned with age but book appears unread.

  • The Collected Poems 1955-1995 by Anne Stevenson

    £10.00

    Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1996  but labelled as published by Bloodaxe in 2000. 20cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 276 pages. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Slight wear to covers and light yellowing with age to page edges.

  • The Easter Party by Vita Sackville-West 1955

    £5.00

    First edition thus, Mermaid Books, 1955. 19cm by 12.5cm 189 pages in illustrated boards. Condition: front board a little bowed and some fading to the orange of the covers.

  • The Estate by Issac Bashevis Singer 1975

    £4.00

    Penguin 1975 18cm by 11cm 334 page paperback reprint. The Estate concludes Singer’s epic story which began with The Manor. Condition: Ink signature of previous owner on title page plus notes on rear of final page dated 17/3/1979 about literature.

  • The Garden A Theophany by Martin Corless-Smith INSCRIBED

    £12.00

    Spectacular Books, New York 1998. 14cm by 11cm cream illustrated wraps. Martin Corless-Smith is an English poet and painter who lives and teaches in Boise; Idaho.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) with the following inscription on fly-leaf:“To Ric with love from Martin Corless-Smith Durham Feb…

  • The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley Penguin 1966

    £4.00

    A Penguin Modern Classic. First published by Heinemann in 1929, this is a 1966 reprint of the Penguin edition first published in 1962. 18cm by 11cm, 618 pages. Cover illustration by Paul Hogarth. Condition: in the top left hand corner of the front cover there is the eivience of a fight with one of those…

  • The Green Lake Is Awake by Joseph Ceravolo

    £9.50

    Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 1994.  First edition. Selected Poems by Joseph Ceravolo with an Introduction by Kenneth Koch. 22.5cm by 15.5cm pink and black laminated wraps, 131 pages. In the 1960s Ceravolo won the inaugural Frank O’Hara Award for Poetry. He produced several books of poetry and died aged 54 in 1988. This copy is…

  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

    £3.00

    Harper Perennial, 1992. US paperback reprint. 20cm by 13.5cm, 452 pages. Condition: Page edges uniformly browned with age. Appears unread.

  • The Man Who Was Loved by Kay MacCauley

    £3.00

    Telegram, London,  W2 5RH, 2006. First paperback edition. 20cm by 13cm illustrated wraps, 392 pages. Robert Plant is quoted on the covers: “A breathtaking debut.”  Condition: Shelf-worn with slight water damage to top edge of front cover and fly-leaf. Book appears unread.

  • The Most Beautiful Woman in Town by Charles Bukowski

    £10.00

    City Lights Books, San Francisco, [1988]. Reprint paperback 20cm by 13.5cm, 240 pages. A collection of 30 short stories. Condition: Very Good tight, bright copy. Spine sunned, slight soiling and shelf-wear to pages.

  • The New Poetry Selected and introduced by A. Alvarez

    £3.00

    Penguin, 1967. Reprint. First published in 1962. 18cm by 11cm, 245 pages. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). A.A’s very own canon of British and American poets from John Berryman to David Wevill via Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton with Jackson…

  • The Observer’s Book of Birds by S. Vere Benson 1968

    £12.00

    Frederick Warne, 1968. Third reprint of the 1965 Revised Edition. Brown boards, 14.5cm x 9cm, 223 pages with b&w plus colour illustrations throughout. Condition: Slightly faded and worn boards but clean contents in somewhat soiled, edge-worn, chipped and torn dustwrapper. See photos.

  • The Other Wing by Louis MacNeice

    £25.00

    Faber and Faber, 1954. 21.5cm by 14cm blue wraps in envelope. An Ariel Poem, part of a series including Auden, Eliot and Spender illustrated by artists including John Piper, Edward Ardizzone and David Jones. MacNeice’s poem is illustrated with two black and white drawings and one full page colour illustration by Michael Ayrton. Condition: Pamphlet…

  • The Penances by Iain Sinclair INSCRIBED

    £30.00

    The Many Press, 40 Walford Road, London, N16 8ED, 1977. Published in an edition of 200 copies. 21cm by 15cm brown wraps in cream illustrated dustwrapper. Cover and drawing by Donal Ryan. This copy from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is inscribed but not dated by Sinclair…

  • The POW! Anthology INSCRIBED by Michael Horovitz

    £15.00

    New Departures, 1996. Edited by Michael Horovitz and Inge Elsa Laird. 21cm by 15cm red wraps, 100 pages. An illustrated anthology of poets, singer-songwriters, musicians and performance artists of the world to celebrate, commemorate and consolidate the first Poetry Olympics Weekend festival. Features Damon Albarn, Simon Armitage, Nick Cave, John Cooper Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy,…

  • The Romany Rye by George Borrow

    £8.50

    John Murray, 1907. Reprint. Sub-titled “A Sequel To Lavengro” this is “a new edition containing the unaltered text of the original issue, with notes, etc, by the author of The Life of George Borrow.” 20.5cm by 13cm blue cloth boards, 403 pages.  Condition: Spine and board edges sunned, weak hinge to rear board, scattered foxing…

  • The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca

    £8.00

    New Directions paperback, [1960s]. The 16th printing of New Directions paperback first published in 1961.  Edited by Federico’s brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca and Donald M. Allen. Spanish and English parallel text. 20cm by 13cm, 180 pages. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Covers a…

  • The Swimming Pool Season by Rose Tremain 2003

    £3.00

    Vintage, 2003. First published by Hamish Hamilton in 1985. This 20cm by 13cm paperback has 274 pages. Condition: edge-wear to cover and pages and pages uniformly browned with age.

  • The Tale of Driver Grope by Richard Ingrams and Ralph Steadman

    £28.00

    Dobson, 1969. First edition. 29cm by 21cm blue boards illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. It might have been published by a children’s publisher but this is a title for adults to read, digest and act on. Richard “Private Eye” Ingrams wrote this messed up fairy tale of greed, capitalism, and environmental concerns. Ralph Steadman provided…

  • The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda

    £3.00

    Graywolf Press, [1990s]. Reprint paperback, 21.5cm by 13.5cm, 201 pages. Translated and with an introduction by David Rosenthal. Gabriel García Márquez is quoted on the cover: “The most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War.” Condition: Covers a little faded and shelf-worn but book appears unread.

  • The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox

    £3.00

    Vintage, 200. Reprint paperback. 20cm by 13cm, 241 pages. Described in a Times review as “fine, rich, satiny and unpredictable as the vintages that it describes…” Condition: some shelf wear and pages uniformly browned. Appears unread.

  • Transmigration Solo by Joseph Ceravolo

    £15.00

    The Toothpaste Press, Iowa, 1979. First edition. 20cm by 13cm, orange and black decorated boards, 45 pages. In the 1960s Ceravolo won the inaugural Frank O’Hara Award for Poetry. He produced several books of poetry and died in 1988, nine years after this book was published. This copy is from the library of the late…

  • Under Berlin by John Tranter INSCRIBED

    £10.00

    University of Queensland Press, 1988. First edition. 19.5cm by 13cm, green illustrated wraps, 119 pages. Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) with the following inscription on title page:“To Ric Caddell, greetings from Sydney, John Tranter 8/8/88” Condition: some…

  • Under the Clock New Poems by Tony Harrison

    £45.00

    Penguin Books, 2005. Pocket Penguin 38, published as part of Penguin Books’ 70th anniversary celebrations. 18cm by 11cm, 55 pages. INSCRIBED by Harold Pinter on title page “To Stella from Harold” and  a 15cm by 11cm compliments card from Pinter laid in. Could the previous owner have been Stella Powell, granddaughter of Harold’s second wife…

  • Vanishing Lung Syndrome by Miroslav Holub. SIGNED.

    £10.00

    Faber and Faber, 1990. 20cm by 13cm, 68 pages. First paperback edition SIGNED “Miroslav Holub 14.10.90.” This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and the book would have been signed for him. Condition: The spine is faded plus there is 2cm wide fading running down the…

  • Waggoners’ Walk by Barbara Clegg and Alan Downer

    £3.50

    British Broadcasting Corporation, 1975. First edition. Paperback 17.5cm by 11cm, 175 pages with 8 pages of black and white photos. Tie-in with the BBC Radio 2 series set in Hampstead which ran from 1969 to 1980. Condition: covers a little edge-worn, pages uniformly browned with age.

  • You Speak in Constellations by The Poetry Society 2020

    £3.00

    The Poetry Society, 2021. 17cm by 12cm colour illustrated laminated wraps, 36 pages. Anthology of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2020 featuring Lauren Lisk, Leandra Li, Daniel Wale, Libby Russell and more. Condition: as new.