Larkin Philip Thomas Hughes Ted (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Burrill T E (illustrator). No markings, guaranteed condn.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Light wear to soft cloth cover edges. Block toning to pp 44/45 likely from laid in (now removed) newsprint. Unmarked and tightly bound. ; Pamphlet.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo card covered stapled pamphlet, pale green cover with black decorations and text. very good condition. 24pp no inscriptions or annotations.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. Splitting at the bottom corner of rear wrap, loose lamination on front cover and spine, very good. Prints ten poems by Ted Hughes (including the first appearance of "Song of Woe," and excerpts from an unpublished letter by Hughes), also prints poems by Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, Thom Gunn, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 24pp. Selected by C.B. Cox and A.E. Dyson. Fine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. Foredge with a bump, bright and very good or better in stapled wrappers. Contains two poems by Ted Hughes, including first appearance of "The Road to Easington"; also prints the first appearance of "Parliament Hill Fields" by Sylvia Plath and contributions by Thom Gunn, Philip Larkin, and Thomas Kinsella. Issued as Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement 3. *Sagar & Tabor* B17; *Tabor* B18.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. 24pp. Stapled wrappers. Very good indeed. A selection of twenty poems (four each by Larkin and Gunn, seven by Thomas, and five by Hughes), all of which had been previously printed and are reproduced here to showcase the best poems written since 1950 ("We have chosen the four poets whom we believe to be outstanding among British poets of the period" - a claim by the editors which certainly holds true). Bloomfield L35 / not noted by Sagar & Tabor (Hughes) or Hagstrom & Bixby (Gunn). [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Although Plath was American, her poem "Parliament Hill Fields" is included in this selection from the year before she commited suicide. Also 2 poems by Ted Hughes, 2 by Larkin, 2 by Gunn etc. Decorated stapled card wraps without dustwrapper as issued. Spine starting to split. Covers G-VG. Contents VG+.

Contains "Ghost Crabs" & "The Bear" by Ted Hughes, 2 by R S Thomas, one each by Larkin, Sexton & Durrell, 2 by Lowell etc. Decorated stapled card wraps. Without dustwrapper as issued. VG (minor wear to top/tail of spine).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Decorative paper-covered boards. Slight foxing on topedge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a faint crease and a bit of spotting on the rear flap. Contains the first book appearance of "Thistles" and "Unknown Soldier" by Ted Hughes [S&T B9]; and the first appearance of Louis MacNeice's "The Wiper" [not in Armitage], and poems by Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Stevie Smith et al.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 144 pp., Good, Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket with small tears, edge wear, shelf-wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with light tanning and wear, and an old price label on the upper flap. Prints 10 poems by Ted Hughes (including the first appearance of "Song of Woe" and excerpts from an unpublished letter), as well as poems by Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, Thom Gunn, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, and others. *Sagar & Tabor* B76; one of 1500 copies of the clothbound edition, of 6500 total.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Decorative paper-covered boards. 134pp., [1]pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with spine tanned, short tear on top corner on rear panel. Contains the first book appearance of "Thistles" and "Unknown Soldier" by Ted Hughes [S&T B9]; and the first appearance of Louis MacNeice's "The Wiper" [not in Armitage], and poems by Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Stevie Smith et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Black cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 550 copies of which 450 are for sale. Contains the first appearance of "Little Whale Song" by Ted Hughes and "Sweeney's Praise of Farranan" by Seamus Heaney.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition, one of five hundred copies printed. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with very faint sunning on spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Paperback copy with stapled spine, no dustjacket as issued. 23pp. Contains 'Church Going', 'No Road', 'The Whitsun Weddings' and 'Take One Home for the Kiddies' by Philip Larkin, 'On the Move', In Santa Maria Del Popolo', 'My Sad Captains' and 'Rastignac at 45' by Thom Gunn, 'Iago Prytherch', 'Meet the family', 'The Dark Well', 'Walter Llywarch', 'Judgement Day', 'Country Child' and 'Ap Huw's Testament' by R S Thomas, 'The Thought-Fox', 'An Otter', 'Thrushes', 'Relic' and 'Pibroch' by Ted Hughes. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (4/3).

FIRST EDITION, pp. 24, crown 8vo, original stapled wrappers, a little faded to borders, initials to top corner of front, gentle knock at foot of spine, good.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, pre-publication issue. Few small spots of foxing to fore-edge of a few leaves, else a fine copy, laid into publisher's stiff printed wrappers (matching the printed dust jacket); wrappers have a very faint crease on front and rear covers, else fine. Laid into the book is 8-page publisher's pamphlet, entitled, *Poetry in the Making Illustrative Material,* and a mimeographed sheet, listing readings by Ted Hughes, and others [as issued, by Turret Books, for the exhibition]. A scarce publication in this pre-publication format. Advance copy, consisting of unbound, unsewn signatures, laid into stiff wrappers [advance copy not noted by bibliographers (see Ted Hughes/ Sagar and Tabor B34 for both the limited and trade editions)]. Tall octavo, unbound signatures, untrimmed [taller, by approximately one-half inch, than final published sheets], 68 pages (illustrated with four leaves of plates, reproducing manuscript material, in holograph facsimile, by Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin et al), laid into stiff printed wrappers [matching the printed dust jacket]. Includes Ted Hughes' poem "Mountains," and a fragment of "Sort" (both reproduced in Hughes' holograph facsimile, from the original manuscript)[see S&T B34a]. Also prints biographical sketches, and descriptions of items in the exhibition, including materials by W.H. Auden, Derek Walcott, Dylan Thomas, C. Day Lewis, Philip Larkin et al. Text includes a two-page preface by C. Day Lewis, and "Operation Manuscript" by Philip Larkin (eight-pages).