Basil Bunting Preface (11 results)

Paper. First edition. Some sunning on back cover else VG.

First edition, first printing From the library of poet William Matthews with his full signature and date to the opening flyleaf. Near fine tall stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text wit the usual light age tone.

Second edition Very close to fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. Praise from Creeley, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg. A sharp copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, 400 in hardcover and 600 in paperback-- this copy is in paperback. Edited, with a preface by Basil Bunting. Very Good with moderate wear to covers and no marks to text. Covers and pages lightly toned. Poetry. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 135 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good. Dury, Ian (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original black and white illustrated dust-jacket with blue titles, there is some very light wear at spine ends but otherwise fine having been kept in a clear protective sleeve. Book unmarked, unused, as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Very good some light handling on the boards and spine. In a very good lightly edgeworn dust jacket with small tears won the top edge. 12mo. 48pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. 48pp. Cover by Ian Dury, and with a jacket quotation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Very Good with moderate wear, the edges slightly spotted and the boards a little marked, the prelims also faintly spotted, and with insignificant soiling and a scuff between pp.14-15, in the jacket, slightly rubbed to extremities such as the spine ends, the upper flap fold with a small chip at its tail edge, that flap with an unobtrusive corner crease, and the upper panel a little scratched, but Very Good overall. Although not one of the 50 special copies, this copy has been signed by the author and inscribed to Fred (Hunter). Loosely inserted are an autograph letter signed from Pickard to Hunter, dated 1965, and two cuttings concerning Pickard, dated 1967 and 1974. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 135pp. Octavo [23 cm] Olive green cloth over boards. In the dust jacket, with a number of small stains to the lower extremities of the front panel, darkening to the spine, and minor chipping to the edges. There is also a 1" slash to the surface of the front panel. Novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) promoted "modernism" and gave it a place in his literary magazine, The English Review, in 1909. Ford's poetry has been admired by Robert Duncan, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Kenneth Rexroth, and Basil Bunting.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition, 8vo., pp. xiii, 235, paperback; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light foxing to prelims and edges, otherwise internally clean, light surface soiling and rubbing to wrappers, overall a very good copy.

First Edition. "Deluxe" issue, no. 40 of 50 numbered and signed copies; printed on blue paper (otherwise indistinguishable from the trade issue, so far as this cataloguer can discern). Small, slim octavo; blue paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 48pp. Fine, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, with no printed price on flap, inconspicuous trace of wear at edges; about Fine. First published collection by the great Tyneside working-class poet, founder and central figure of the Morden Tower Book Room; both muse and mentee to Basil Bunting (who supplied the Preface to this volume) and reputedly a driving force behind the writing of Bunting's masterpiece, "Briggflatts". Perhaps our favorite thing about this book, however, is that the jacket was designed by a very young Ian Dury, later of Blockheads fame, done well before his appearance on the London punk scene, at a time when he was attempting to establish a foothold as a visual artist. A great little book, necessarily uncommon in this limitation. Signed.…