Miller Al Edited (26 results)

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Volume 1, No. 6. Front hinge broken. Owner's name on endpage. (Poetry, Essays).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This pop-up book has very little corner bumping, some darkening with age and light rubbing of the covers. Interior text is clean and tight in binding. There is one damaged and missing "joke', otherwise in very good shape for age. Walton, Tony / Penick, Ib {paper engineering} (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Chicago: 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 162 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Shades of Toffee" by Charles F. Meyers, "Operation Decoy" by Walt Sheldon, "Luvver" by Mack Reynolds, "The Man Who Would Not Burn" by Paul Lohrman, "The Mechanical Genius" by Gilbert Grant, etc. A very good copy with small edge tears, light toning to the paper. See Photos mag 30/ E. cover by Robert Gibson Jones (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Chicago / New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company , Chicago / New York: 1951 First edition. Vintage Pulp. 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Terrible Puppets" by Paul W. Fairman, "Mission Accomplished" by Robert Moore Williams, "The Catspaw" by John McGreevey, "The Secret of John Marsh" by William P. McGivern, "Dark Benediction" by Walter M. Miller Jr, etc. Contents page in Photos cover art by Robert Gibson Jones A very good copy with small edge tears, light dust soiling, text lightly toned. See Photos mag 21 /e. cover art by Robert Gibson Jones (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Chicago / New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company , Chicago / New York: 1951 First edition. Vintage Pulp. 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Terrible Puppets" by Paul W. Fairman, "Mission Accomplished" by Robert Moore Williams, "The Catspaw" by John McGreevey, "The Secret of John Marsh" by William P. McGivern, "Dark Benediction" by Walter M. Miller Jr, etc. Contents page in Photos cover art by Robert Gibson Jones. A very good copy with small edge tears, light dust soiling, text lightly toned. See Photos mag 30. cover art by Robert Gibson Jones (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Arlingont Hts.: Dark Harvest. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket 310 pages, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg with stories by F. Paul Wilson, James Kisner, Richard Laymon, Rex Miller, Robert R. McCammon, Max Allan Collins, John Coyne, J. N. Williamson, Al Sarrantonio, Charles de Lint, Dean R. Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale and others. Illustrated by Paul Sonju. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. See Photos Clph E. Paul Sonju (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 359pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location - 31-c-13*.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 88pp. Soiled wraps with tears to the spine ends and small ink mark, near fine. Literary magazine with contributions from William Stafford, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico Garcia Lorca, Diane Wakoski, Judson Jerome, Bertrand Russell, and others.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Covers have general wear. Side and bottom of text block have little soil smudge. Otherwise this copy is unmarked and in good condition. 445 pages.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A fine first edition hardcover in a fine dust jacket, no remainder marks, good straight tight bindings. Full number line to one. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Extremely Rare. Delightful pop-up book of joke material. Edited by Al Miller. Illustrations by Tony Walton. Paper Engineering by IB Penick. Former owner's name stamped in front and back end papers. All movable parts work well. Some ever so slight shelf wear to the cover. Otherwise, very good condition. Published by Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1972. (BR) Box 154.…

Hardcover. Reprinted. Octavo, four volumes. In Very Good condition. Light gray slipcase has slight wear including mild age toning. Bound in the publisher's light brown cloth bearing silver lettering to the spines. Boards have very slight wear including light scuffs and faint sunning to the spines. Text blocks have minimal wear. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Reprinted. CONTENTS: Vol. One, lxii, 425 pages -- Vol. Two, xv, 413 pages -- Vol. Three, xv, 412 pages -- Vol. Four, xv, 455 pages. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Multi-Volume Case. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1409257. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean, with just some very light foxing to the front endpaper and pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. 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. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions - just a small pencil price at the top of the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label to the bottom of the front pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. 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. Top corners of some pages slightly creased - otherwise, no creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condlition and is lacking a dust jacket. This copy has a leather spine and dark green cloth covers. The front spine joint has cracking to the leather. The rear spine joint has a thin strip of the spine joint chipped out from nearly three / fourths of the joint. There is a repaired tear to the spine of the book. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and wear. There is a rectangular pastedown illustration on the front panel that has some light rubbing and edge wear, but is otherwise generally clean. The text pages are clean and bright.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Note that this copy has been bound upside down - a rare variant! ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners sharp - just slightly creased lower corners. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with a neat contemporaneous gift inscription in black fountain pen ink to the top of the front free endpaper: 'To my darling wife 12.1.46'. Interior pages clean with no foxing. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is virtually complete, with just some small areas of loss at the top edge. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Fading to the red titles on the spine. Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed, with some browning to the top and bottom margins of the boards. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Unobtrusive very light sporadic foxing to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Some light production creasing to a couple of pages. Interior pages clean. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is complete, which is very unusual for this book - the dustwrapper normally has some loss. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear to the top edge of the front panel, and a couple of closed tears and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper also slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 354 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. 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. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A clean, crisp copy of the 1988 1st edition of this "Proceeding of the 18th International Symposium of the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund, Tokyo, 1987". Clean and Near Fine to Fine in its dark-red cloth. Quarto, publishged jointly with Taylor & Francis, Ltd. of London and Philadelphia. Text exclusively in English. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good plus octavo wraps. Light to moderate general wear. No major issues. 8vo. A few Chips at spines. No names or markings to text. 12 issues. Full year's run. See pics for content. Literary history.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Cardboard boards with attached printed dustwrapper. Double number . 357pp. Fine in fine fine dust jacket with its original unprinted box with moderate chip. A pristine copy. This volume includes two photos and several stories from Alfred Stieglitz; Henry Miller's "Stiegliz and John Marin"; Muriel Rukeyser's "The Amistad Mutiny"; a section on the Civil War, and many other contributions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Near fine in the rarer light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a more common issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. None of the usual rubbing or browning to the boards. Corners sharp with just some creasing to the bottom corner tip of the back board. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. None of the usual foxing - interior pages clean. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is complete, which is very unusual for this book - the dustwrapper normally has some loss. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, but there are no tears and no loss. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper also slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel of dustwrapper really clean (which is unusual, being a white background). Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper - especially in the less commonly found light beige cloth binding. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***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. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).…

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. 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. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator).…