Brian Patten Editor (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Oversized 181pp including index of poets, index of first lines, and biographical notes Brings together some of the finest and most magical children's literature from the 20th century Colorful photographs Dust jacket has small tear on edge of jacket.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Some scuffs to cover. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stapled booklet, 32 pages. Cover drawing by Brian Patten. Poems by a variety of authors, including Peter Kiddle, Eddie Wainwright, Ken Harrison, Ted Hughes and John Brunner, among others. 040414A.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 52pp. Covers a little handled with a largish splashmark at tail fore corner of rear cover just affecting the last 2 pages (text unaffected). John Furnival; Mike Edwards (illustrator).

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Good. First Edition. 34pp. Light bumps, creases & nicks as well as foxing particularly on covers.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 40pp. Name & contemporary date on contents page. Adrain George; Tony Shapiro; Ann Fenn; Paula Claire; Geoff Conacher; Viv Wynant; Mick Gold; Terry Miles (illustrator).

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (36pp.) A few contributors' names ticked. Covers a little soiled & handled with staples rusty. Uncommon.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. no date (1971 is the last date mentioned in acknowledgments) 32pp. B/W photographic covers very slightly handled. Name in small neat hand on inside front cover. 0.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Academic Press, paperback about 7x10", Very Good + (minor cover wear & spine fading), includes Ostergren: A community trasplanted: the formative experience of a Swedish immigrant community in the Upper Middle West, [dp 1104]; F4353 W1W.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 64pp. A little handled. Hockney, David; John Furnival; R.B. Kitaj (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Some light shelf wear to extremities.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 52pp + 4pp thin card covers. Orange design on white b/g with black lettering. Staple bound. A Quarterly magazine for Cambridge students "whose work is of a sufficiently high standard to warrant its publication outside the limited area covered by University Journals". Eighteen contributors to this second issue including Anselm Hollo and Brian Patten. Illustrations by Mike Edwards and John Furnival. Touch of rust to staples. Shelf wear to top of spine. Light toning to margins of rear cover. Clean inside pages. No inscriptions. VG+ condition. Mike Edwards; John Furnival (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with plastic (non-adhesive) covered unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Signed and dedicated by the editor, and illustrated by Terry Oakes. Jacket edges are slightly creased and nicked. Board spine ends are bumped. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Oakes, Terry (illustrator). Signed and Dedicated By Editor. Used.…

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Literary anthology with poems and contributions by Ted Hughes, Ruth Fainlight, Alan Sillitoe, Angie Gilligan, Michael Horovitz, Charles Reid, Al Celestine, Brian Patten, Frances Horvitz, Mark Hutchinson, Anne Twitty, Kevin Holmwood, Heathcote Williams, Ivor Cutler, Phyllis April King, and David Punter. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with a small crease to the bottom corner of the front panel.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 314 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Side-Stapled A4 Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 40pp. 200 copies. Covers very slightly toned at extremities. Staples a little rusty. Some tiny splashes at tail of contents sheet.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket as issued. First Edition. Number 25 of 100 copies signed by Edward Lucie - Smith with a jokey inscription to Claude ' I hope you enjoy this. I think its rather fun - perhaps a bit of a suprise coming from this side of the Atlantic. Edward 31st Jan '67.' Loosely enclosed is an invitation from Rapp & Carroll to attend their party at the Cavern, Liverpool on 3rd March inscribed 'Claude - can't you fly over for it? Edward'. Fine association copy in the original pictorial laminated boards. Contemporary post card of the Pier Head loosely laid in. Signed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Front cover with alternative unused lyrebird image by Piper & rear cover color-poem by Patrick Hayman. Although Piper's signature is a reproduction on the published cover this unused proof would not have been duplicated. Lightly rubbed & creased at unprinted marginal edges of cover. (ii), 94pp. Text-block with untrimmed edges & sewn with each signature lettered A-F; some unopened. Burroughs and Theater of All Possibilities (8pp). Neither the Piper illustrated Bryan Guinness 'Hands' pull-out nor the Williamson flexidisc present. Self-evidently unique thus. John Piper (illustrator). Signed by Artist.…

Broadside. First Edition. Broadsides of varying sizes, housed in illustrated blue folder with inside pocket. Limitation sheet, introductory notes by Edward Lucie-Smith, and brief biographies of contribtors are on separate sheets. First edition (first printing). Limited edition, #202/375 copies. Contents are near fine. The Macbeth and Porter broadsides are slightly toned from adjacent broadsides. The Tarn broadside is tanned at edges. Folder with slight surface scuffs. …

Liverpool: Underdog Publications. 1965. 8vo. Black stapled wrappers with a poem by Heather Holdon to cover and photograph by Reg Cox; unpaginated; fine.First edition, signed by Alexander Trocchi.In the 1960s, Brian Patten presided over the Liverpool poetry scene alongside influential contemporaries such as Roger McGough. Underdog was Patten's own poetry magazine which he both edited and produced. This poem was written and signed by Alexander Trocchi just five years after the release of his controversial and seminal novel, Cain's Book. Cain's Book had previously been banned, and most of Trocchi's output, mostly pornographic in nature, had been published by the Olympia Press, usually under the pen names Frances Lengel and Carmencita de las Lunas. Christened the preeminent "Scottish Beat", his writing was heavily influenced by the New York and San Francisco 'Beat scene' and 1960s counterculture, placing emphasis on nonconformity, social alienation and drug experimentation. Underdog 6 features works by Robert Creeley, Anslem Hollo and Patten himself, to name but a few.…