Published by Horizon, London, 1941
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo in stiff card covers, 72pp . [CONDITION: A well preserved near FINE clean and tight copy (spine and cover margins tanned, minute chip to top bottom corner tip of front cover and top corner tip of rear cover) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
Published by Poetry London, 25 Marchmont Street, London W.C.1, 1941
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4 - January-February 1941 - the fourth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by Herbert Blackburn. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and red printed stapled covers. The covers are slightly marked and creased, commensurate with age and handling. The front cover is clean and largely uncreased, but the back cover is slightly creased and surface marked (please see scans). Red title to front cover bright. No tears. Spine tight. Internally near fine, with no inscriptions. No marks or significant creasing. No tears. ***36 printed pages plus adverts on the inside covers. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fourth letter by Tambimuttu, dated January 15, 1941; Two poems by Walter de la Mare; On a Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas; A Wartime Dawn by David Gascoyne; Two War Poems by George Scurfield; The Dyke-builder by Henry Treece; In a Time of Crisis by Lawrence Durrell; Reviews, including: Richard Eberhart by Nicholas Moore; T. S. Eliot's East Coker by James H. Kirkup; En Partant Pour Syrie by G.S . Fraser. Four Lyrics by Tambimuttu. ***Also poems by Anne Ridler, Gavin Ewart, Peter J. Little, G. S. Fraser, John Malcolm Brinnin, J. C. Hall and Nicholas Moore. ***Particularly interesting is the perceptive two-page review of T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" (Faber & Faber 1s.) by James H. Kirkup. This issue also contains an essay "The Unconscious: Spirituality: Catastrophe by Pierre Jean Jouve (translated from the French by David Gascoyne). ***Vol. 1. No. 4 - the fourth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Joan Miro, cover (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with a small coffee stain on the left corner.
Published by Poetry London - New York, London, UK and New York, USA, 1956
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Alexander Calder (Lyre Bird cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 - the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. After a hiatus of around five years since the publication of the final issue of the original series, in 1951, Tambimuttu relaunched the magazine in New York in 1956. However, this version of the magazine only ran to four issues before cessation again in 1960. With the Lyre Bird cover design by Alexander Calder. ***Very good in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Please note that the bottom of the spine has been bumped and this affects all pages (please see scans). Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no tears. Internally also very good with very clean pages. None of the usual foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***40 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: Poems by Walter de la Mare, Roy Campbell, Marya Zaturenska, W. S. Merwyn, Herbert Read, W. H. Auden, Anne Ridler, Jean Garrigue, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Nelson Bentley, Robert Graves, Claire McAllister, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Logue, Tom Scott, Arthur Gregor, Alice Monks Mears, Kenneth Eisold, Babette Deutsch, Diana Menuhin, Amrita Pritam, Buddhadiva Bose, Jibanananda Das. ***Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 of Poetry London - New York, the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by New DIrections, Norfolk, 1939
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in paper-covered boards with shelf wear and wear at the spine extremities and offsetting on the endpapers and very good dust jacket with chips at the spine extremities, faded spine, crease and relatively light edgewear.
Language: English
Published by Poetry London, 26 Manchester Square, London W.1, 1947
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background), and very slightly foxed at the edges. Tiny crease to the bottom corner of the front cover. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Small marks to inside of front cover and contents page, otherwise interior pages clean. The top corner tips of the last few pages are slightly creased. No tears. ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, 25 Marchmont Street, London W.C.1, 1943
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers hardly rubbed or creased at all. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Virtually no creasing and no tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue and exceptionally rare in this near fine condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Jack Yates, London, 1976
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Jack Yates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unpaginated 20pp booklet with light blue card covers. Collection of sixteen poems illustrated with paper cuts by the artist/editor. Black on white illustrations on inside pages. Staple bound. Hint of sun toning to spine area and wear to tip of tail ofspine. Otherwise in fine condition.
Language: Italian
Published by Marguerite Caetani, Rome, 1950
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 473pp. The sixth Notebook (published twice a year) in the Botteghe Oscure series. Contributions printed in Italian, French and English. A collection of prose, Plays and poetry in three sections. Eleven items by Italian writers, seven in French and nineteen contributions by English authors. Cream over-hang card covers with brown lettering on face and spine. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Slightly dusty covers but very good condition for its age. Clean inside pages with no inscriptions. Appears hardly read.
Published by Gwasg Gomer. Llandysul, 1970
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
Gwasg Gomer. Llandysul. 1970. First edition. Hardback in DW. Slight signs of use to covers and endpapers otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper with slight wear to edges.
Published by Poetry London, 25 Marchmont Street, London W.C.1, 1941
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Herbert Blackburn (cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4 - January-February 1941 - the fourth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by Herbert Blackburn. ***Near fine in the original thin cream, black and red printed stapled covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. No tears. Red title to front cover bright. Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Top and bottom corners of pages just lightly creased. No tears. ***36 printed pages plus adverts on the inside covers. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fourth letter by Tambimuttu, dated January 15, 1941; Two poems by Walter de la Mare; On a Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas; A Wartime Dawn by David Gascoyne; Two War Poems by George Scurfield; The Dyke-builder by Henry Treece; In a Time of Crisis by Lawrence Durrell; Reviews, including: Richard Eberhart by Nicholas Moore; T. S. Eliot's East Coker by James H. Kirkup; En Partant Pour Syrie by G.S . Fraser. Four Lyrics by Tambimuttu. ***Also poems by Anne Ridler, Gavin Ewart, Peter J. Little, G. S. Fraser, John Malcolm Brinnin, J. C. Hall and Nicholas Moore. ***Particularly interesting is the perceptive two-page review of T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" (Faber & Faber 1s.) by James H. Kirkup. This issue also contains an essay "The Unconscious: Spirituality: Catastrophe by Pierre Jean Jouve (translated from the French by David Gascoyne). ***Vol. 1. No. 4 - the fourth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Poetry London, 64 Grafton Street, London W.1, 1939
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Hector Whistler (Cover design), Edwin Smith (illustrations) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 2 - April 1939 - the second issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Illustrated within the text by Edwin Smith. Cover design by Hector Whistler. ***Near fine in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no significant creases or tears. Internally also near fine without marks or creasing. No inscriptions. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***32 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: George Barker: The Death of Yeats; Tambimuttu: Second Letter; Idris Davies: Love Poem; H. B. Mallalieu: The Photograph; Laurence Whistler: October Call; Clifford Dyment: The Eyes, A Daughter of Music, Summer, Movements in Spring; Paul Potts: Michael Gold to Thornton Wilder, Twentieth Century God; Inside; Louis MacNeice [translated by]: First Chorus from the Hippolytus of Eurpides; Maurice Carpenter: Sleep Turning; Tambimuttu: Four Ceylonese Love Songs; David Gascoyne: The Last Hour, De Profundus, Lachrymae, Ex Nihilo; Charles Madge: Flight of the Margarine; George Barker: Elegy No. 3; Ruthven Todd: Christopher Wood; Stephen Spender: The Human Situation; Glyn Jones: Night; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Dorian Cooke: Gethsemane Poem; Reviews; Correspondence - includes congratulatory letters from Dylan Thomas and Lawrence Durrell etc.; Books Received; Poetry London Twice a Year adverts to the inside of rear cover. ***Poetry (London) was called simply "Poetry" when the magazine initially came out. ***Vol. 1. No. 2 - the second issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in April 1939, in nice collectable condition. This pre-war second issue of Poetry (London) magazine is scarce - all the Poetry (London) magazines are very fragile productions, and seldom found now in such clean condition. A magazine now over 80 years old. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Poetry London, 26 Manchester Square, London W.1, 1947
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background). The bottom corner of the page block is slightly creased throughout. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a small black contemporaneous bookseller's label to bottom of first page: 'G. R. Downing, Bookseller, Fore Street, St. Ives, C'. Pages sporadically lightly foxed. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. Lower corners of most pages also lightly creased. The three pages of colour lithographs, including the centrefold, are bright and clean, and are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on normal thick paper (not the thin postwar economy paper as used in comparative Issue No. 9). ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, 25 Marchmont Street, London W.C.1, 1943
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers slightly creased and rubbed, with a surface crease across the top corner and a smaller surface crease across the bottom corner of the front cover, and a slight bump to the tail of the spine. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.