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  • Modern Riddles featuring Julia Darling and Ellen Phethean

    £10.00

    Published by Artists’ Agency and Diamond Twig Press, 1995. 29.5cm by 21cm, 24 pp. Subtitled A Collaborative Work, this was produced by Chilean artist Gonzalo Diaz, Julia Darling and Ellen Phethean from The Poetry Virgins and the North Shields People’s Centre Photography Group. Edited by Dr Stephanie Brown from Newcastle University. Colour and black and…

  • The Lure of the Local by Margaret Harrison

    £12.00

    Exhibition catalogue. Published by Hatton Gallery, 2001. 24.5cm by 21cm, 31pp in card wraps. Illustrated with colour and black and white photos of artworks in the exhibition juxtaposed with artworks by James Ramsey, Lowry, Turner and others. Subtitled ‘New Work by Margaret Harrison’ with introduction by Dr Stephanie Brown, lecturer in Art History at Newcastle…

  • Africa: North London Collegiate School Magazine 1961

    £10.00

    Published 1961, 25cm x 19cm, 48pp. Annual school magazine of private day school in North London.  Designed by the magazine’s Art Editor, Miss Keightley and printed at the Leighton Printing Co Ltd. The magazine’s theme is Africa, with articles on art, history and culture plus linocuts and maps.  The magazine also features news on current…

  • Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson

    £8.00

    Bloodaxe Books, 2000. First edition. 21.5cm by 13.5cm. 80 pages. The “terse brilliance” [Peter Levi] of Stevenson’s style is on display. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Covers slightly sunnned with a little edge-wear.

  • 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.

  • Don’t Forget the Couscous by Amir Darwish

    £5.00

    Smokestack Books, 2015. First edition paperback. Almost 20cm by 13cm, 83 pages, illustrated wraps. A book about exile and home by a British/Syrian poet of Kurdish origin. Condition: Covers slightly curling but almost as new.

  • Five Stories About Michael Portillo Remembered by James Johnston

    £10.00

    14.5cm by 10.5cm black and white stapled booklet, 12 pages. Privately printed. Illustrated by Emily Ross. I picked up this booklet in The Left Luggage Room, a bar on Monkseaton Metro Station in North East England in 2018 or 2019. Condition: one tiny beer stain on front cover.

  • Hemy by Theresa Easton and Ian Horn

    £20.00

    Limited edition 4/12 signed by the artist and printmaker Theresa Easton. Created [2011?]  as part of The Sunderland Book Project. 18.5cm by 18cm blue illustrated boards, concertina book.Thomas MM Hemy (1852-1931), a local Sunderland based artist, was commissioned in 1895 by Sunderland AFC to paint a picture of the team in action. The painting of…

  • Basil Bunting a northern life by Richard Caddell and Anthony Flowers

    £8.00

    Newcastle Libraries & Information Service, 1997. First edition. 25cm by 20.5cm, 64 pages, illustrated wraps. There are some fabulous photos in this book, including Tony Harrison sat next to Bunting in a Newcastle pub with a pint and Allen Ginsberg in a Northumberland field. Buy it to see more! Condition: some shelf wear but overall…

  • Recherches botaniques et zoologiques effectuées, en 1926 et 1927

    £10.00

    Rouen, 1926. 25cm by 17cm,  printed pages numbered from 140 to 203 with four black and white plates. Full title: Recherches botaniques et zoologiques effectuées, en 1926 et 1927 dans le cirque d’Espingo et la partie supérieure du val du port de Vénasque (canton de Bagneres-de-Luchon, Haute-Garonne). Stamped with the “Society For British Entomology” throughout….

  • Pieter Bruegel and the fall of the art historian by John White

    £8.00

    University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980. 21cm by 15cm cream wraps, 28 pages with eight black and white plates. The 56th Charlton Lecture on Art delivered in the University of Newcastle on the 30th November 1978 by John White , Durning- Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at University College, London. The Charlton Lecture…

  • Leonard McComb Drawings Painting Sculpture catalogue 1983

    £15.00

    Catalogue of UK touring exhibition 1983-84 organised by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and the Arts Council of Great Britain. 27cm by 22cm grey wraps, 85 pages, includes colour and black and white photos of McComb’s work plus a piece on the artist by Richard Morphet. The exhibition visited London, Oxford, Sussex, Manchester and…

  • Both by Paul Metcalf

    £15.00

    The Jargon Society, North Carolina, 1982. First Edition.  28cm by 22cm black boards in dustwrapper, 113 printed pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville.  This book is about J.W. Booth, who assassinated American President Abraham…

  • Victor Burgin Mari Mahr Mitra Tabrizian 1986 Photographers’ Gallery exhibition catalogue

    £8.50

    PRESS & The Photographers’ Gallery. Published to accompany the exhibition Idle Times by Mari Mahr, Correct Distance by Mitra Tabrizian at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, January 1986. 21cm by 15cm white wraps 36 pages. Includes black and white images throughout plus article Diderot, Barthes, Hieroglyph by Victor Burgin written January 1985. Condition: Contents clean but…

  • Patagoni by Paul Metcalf

    £18.00

    Small Publishers Company, New York, 1971. First Edition. The Jargon Society, Penland, North Carolina.  26cm by 17.5cm yellow boards in dustwrapper, 140 pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville. This copy is from the library…

  • Genoa by Paul Metcalf

    £20.00

    Jonathan Williams Publisher, 1965. First Edition. Jargon 43. 26cm by 17.5cm yellow boards in dustwrapper, 190 pages. Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose and was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and…

  • 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.

  • 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 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 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.

  • Out Loud by Adrian Mitchell INSCRIBED

    £15.00

    Cape Goliard Press Limited, 1969. Second edition. 25cm by 16.5cm colour illustrated wraps with red endpapers. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is inscribed “Peace Adrian Mitchell” with a ink drawn elephant on the title page. Condition: Cream covers browned and soiled with age….

  • Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole

    £7.00

    Methuen and Co, 1982. Reprint paperback. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour images throughout. A Magnet Book. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Features Bod on a snowy Christmas Eve, taking a present to…

  • Begat by David Crystal

    £4.00

    Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition. 22cm by 14cm blue boards in illustrated wrapper, 327 pages. Sub-titled “The King James Bible and the English Language.” Condition: minimal shelf-wear to board edges and wrapper. Appears unread.

  • The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

    £3.00

    Fourth Estate, 1997. 22cm by 14cm black boards, 139 pages in illustrated dustwrapper. Condition: seemingly unread hardback book in price-clipped, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • poems (1962-1997) by robert lax

    £15.00

    wave books, seattle/new york, 2013. First edition. 23cm by 13cm white wraps, 353 pages. Edited by John Beer. Robert Lax (1915-2000) was an American poet, known in particular for his association with Thomas Merton. Condition: slight soiling and edge-wear to wraps.

  • Bod’s New Leaf by Alison and Lo Cole

    £5.00

    Contender Entertainment, 2003. 16cm by 16.5cm white illustrated boards. In 2002 and 2003 Contender published Bod’s Way and Bod’s New Leaf , written by Alison Cole and illustrated by Lo Cole. The books revived their parents’ much-loved creation – the book and TV character Bod.  The books explore the quirky world of Bod and his…

  • 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…

  • A Kumquat for John Keats by Tony Harrison

    £15.00

    Bloodaxe Books, 1981. First edition. 21 cm by 13.5cm orange laminated wraps, 10 pages. Condition: Covers a little creased, edge-worn and sunned towards spine. There’s a 0.5 cm tear to bottom edge of final page.

  • 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…

  • Komorni hudba by James Joyce [Czech version of Chamber Music]

    £10.00

    Dauphin, 2000. 19cm by 11cm cream wraps. This version of Joyce’s Chamber Music was translated by Petr Mikes with an Epilogue by Matthew Sweney, writer, editor, translator, and Assistant Professor of English at Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is…

  • Quirky Wedding Gift for a Bridegroom

    £5.00

    A 6cm by 9cm card with printing on one side only. Dates from the late 1950s/early 1960s. This item was unearthed in Tyne and Wear, UK but origin unknown. Condition: printed words a little bit smudged and slight soiling with age to the card.

  • Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole 1975

    £10.00

    Methuen and Co, 1975. First paperback edition. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. This first paperback edition came a decade after the…

  • Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire

    £10.00

    University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991. First paperback printing. 23cm by 15cm, 513 pages in yellow wraps. Translated by Anne Hyde Greet with an Introduction by S.I. Lockerbie. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Spine is uniformly sunned, there is slight edge-wear to covers…

  • 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…

  • Clangers Annual 1971 by Postgate and Firmin

    £22.00

    Odhams, 1970. 31cm x 22.5cm, colour photo boards illustrated throughout with colour and black and white images. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin gave us Noggin the Nog, Pogles Wood, Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and The Clangers. This beautiful TV tie-in shows you how to make a felt Clanger toy. A friend of ours was lucky…

  • Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole First edition 1965

    £18.00

    Methuen and Co, 1965. First edition. Hardback 16cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Bod on BBC followed the Coles’ classic Fingerbobs and…

  • The Life of Billy Purves Facsimile of 1875 edition

    £5.00

    Published by Frank Graham, 6 Queen’s Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 2PL, 1982. 18cm by 12cm, 149 pages. Billy Purvis (1784-1853) was North East England’s famous jester and clown. This book, sub-titled “The extraordinary, witty and comical showman”, is a facsimile edition of the 1875 edition. Condition: white covers browned at edges with age, original…

  • Blue Peter lapel badge

    £4.00

    We can’t tell you where or when this was created. Let your imagination go wild and pretend that your favourite Blue Peter presenter stole them from BBC Television Centre before it ceased to be the most significant buiding on Wood Lane, W12. A 2cm in diameter lapel badge. Condition: As new and waiting patiently at…

  • Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg SIGNED

    £40.00

    City Lights Books, May 1971, 24th printing. City Lights Pocket Poets Number Four. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. 16cm by 12.5cm, 44 pages in black and white wraps.This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and signed with an ink pen, “allen ginsberg” on the Dedication page….

  • Big League Poets by Mikhail Horovitz

    £25.00

    City Lights Books, San Francisco,1978. 20cm by 14cm, 48 unnumbered pages, stapled pictorial wraps. Quirky item featuring poets including Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, e.e. cummings plus City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti as baseball stars. We’re assuming the author is Michael Horowitz. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and…

  • Wigan Casino Keep The Faith lapel badge

    £3.50

    We can’t tell you where or when this was created but we know it looks cool. A 2.5cm in diameter lapel badge. Condition: As new and waiting patiently at Cusack Mansions for an owner worthy of this cool music-related item.

  • Wigan Casino All-Nighter lapel badge

    £3.50

    We can’t tell you where or when this was created but we know it looks cool. A 2.5cm in diameter lapel badge. Condition: As new and waiting patiently at Cusack Mansions for an owner worthy of this cool music-related item.

  • Angel Exhaust Number Eight Autumn 1992

    £5.00

    Printed in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire. New poetry from Cambridge and London edited by Adrian Clarke and Andrew Duncan. Red laminated wraps, 23cm by 15.5cm, 120 pages. The spine reads: “The Bloodsoaked Royston Perimeter”. Features Bill Griffiths, Denise Riley, Johan De Wit, Iain Sinclair, Maggie O’Sullivan and others. This copy is…

  • 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,…

  • Giant Night by Anne Waldman. INSCRIBED.

    £10.00

    Corinth Books, New York, 1970. First edition. 20cm by 14.5cm, 94 pages, purple decorated covers. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) and is INSCRIBED to him by the author. On the title page it reads: “for Richard Caddell in Durham with thanks Anne Waldman.” Condition:…

  • Complete Poems by Hart Crane

    £5.00

    Bloodaxe Books, 1984. First revised edition edited by Brom Weber. True first edition was published in 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York. 21.5cm by 14cm, 222 pages in blue wraps. This copy is from the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003). Condition: Spine sunned, page edges slightly soiled with…

  • The White Fish Industry by The White Fish Authority

    £4.00

    Designed and Produced by Mather & Crowther Limited, [1960s]. Printed at The Curwen Press Limited, Plaistow, E13. 20cm by 15cm, 44 pages. Green glazed wraps. Front cover declares: “Issued by the White Fish Authority for use by Senior Pupils and Teaching Staff.” The Acknowledgements section begins: “The White Fish Authority wish to acknowledge the very…

  • Cosmic Realities Vanilla Tobacco Dawnings by Tristan Tzara

    £15.00

    Arc Publications, Todmorden, Lancs, 1975. Translated by Lee Harwood. Limited edition of 500 copies of which 15 have been numbered and signed by the translator.  This copy is NOT one of the 15. Yellow dustwrapper with printing over light yellow paper cover. 20.4 x 14.7 cms, 30 pages. The poems in this volume  are reproduced…

  • 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,…

  • 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.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. 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…

  • 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)….

  • 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…

  • 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…