Fanchette Jean Editor (3 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Clean, tight copy. Wear to wraps, with scuffing to edges. Spine has knick in paper. Light foxing to to edge. English-French. Includes work by Henry Miller, Alfred Perles, Richard Aldington, Anais Nin, et al.

9pp., 8vo. In fair condition, on nine leaves of worn and creased paper, the first leaf white, the others green. Minor emendations throughout. The poem is in five sections: 'The Exhortation' (beginning: 'In the crook of my arm | Rest again, nest again. | You are elbowed from harm, | []'), 'The Twinge' ('Never again, never again | Shall I know release from pain; | Never more, never more | Enter the diamented door.'), 'The Bravado' ('To you I raise | Praise, | Indifferently worded, | Heart-sworded, | And, | Merely, today's,'), 'The Fear' ('This hour of affliction | My thought returns | To that affection | A fool spurns, | [.]'), 'The Revanche' ('Were I to hate you | I should overrate you | And should I curse you | Seem to reimburse you | For that debt | I "should never forget."'). Gawsworth has numbered the lines in type 1-260, and then deleted the numeration. Note on first page in Gawsworth's sprawling hand: 'All were accepted by Fanchette for Two Cities in Spring '61 but he only published No 2 & 4 in Two Cities Etc 1961. | John Gawsworth'. 'Two Cities' was a literary magazine published in Paris from 1959 to 1964. Founded by Jean Fanchette, who also served as editor, and Anaïs Nin, it printed French and English material of interest to the Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell circles. The poem and its parts do not appear to have been published elsewhere.…

On nine loose 12mo leaves torn from an album. In fair condition, on aged and browned paper. Wrapped by Gawsworth in a larger piece of paper, on the front of which he has written in pencil the presentation inscription: 'Kenilworth | love | from | His King | J R | 16 Feb. 1967', with the following in blue ink over the 'J R': 'Abdicated | Juan R'. 'Marlow Hill' was Gawsworth's fourth collection, self-published by his Richards Press in 1941. Three of the nine leaves carry layouts of the book's title-page and prelims, with pencil notes 'Pubd 15 Oct 1941' and '33 lines to page'. The other six leaves carry 12pp. of drafts of poems, with emendations throughout in ink and pencil throughout. The pages of poems are paginated in pencil by Gawsworth: V-VI, 9-10, 11-12, 15-16, 23-24, 25-26. P.V carries the poem 'In Memoriam W. H. Davies'; p.VI, 'Author's Apologia'; pp.9-12, 'Marlow Hill | Triste amore é l'autunno'; pp.15-16, 'Advice', 'Nudity', and part of 'No Escape' and another poem; pp.23-26, 'Hardy in his impasse', 'Was' (poem of two six-line stanzas, marked as 'Suppressed'), 'Self Portrait', 'To Suspicion', 'Encounter' (marked as 'My favourite poem'), and part of 'Seasons'.…