Thumbscrew. Numbers 1-21 (lacking 9 and 13).

Published by Oxford. 1994-2002, 1994

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First editions. A near complete set of this little magazine of poetry, articles and reviews which gained something of a reputation for entertaining acerbity. Numbers 20-21 are in a double issue. Octavo. Card wrappers. The first issue includes Craig Raine, Miroslav Holub, Christopher Logue and a poem by Nabokov. After that the contributors include Ted Hughes (on Sylvia Plath), Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, Charles Simic, Paul Muldoon, Karl Miller, Edna Longley, Fleur Adcock, Anne Stevenson (on Keith Douglas) and many others.Small stain to front cover of first number. Generally fine.

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Title
Thumbscrew. Numbers 1-21 (lacking 9 and 13).
Author
PERIODICAL. KENDALL, Tim (edits).
Publisher
Oxford. 1994-2002
Publication year
1994
Binding
Soft cover

Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB

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