Pickard Tom Basil Bunting (17 results)

Paper. First edition. Some sunning on back cover else VG.

Second edition Very close to fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. Praise from Creeley, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg. A sharp copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good. Dury, Ian (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original black and white illustrated dust-jacket with blue titles, there is some very light wear at spine ends but otherwise fine having been kept in a clear protective sleeve. Book unmarked, unused, as new.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 48pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Front cover lightly foxed, else near fine. "Programme" for The Poetry Society Gala Recital with contributions by William Plomer, Hugh MacDiarmid, Brian Patten, Basil Bunting, Tom Pickard, Ezra Pound, Spike Hawkins, Christopher Logue, Ted Hughes and Stevie Smith. The Poetry Gala Recital took place on February 3, 1969. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Very good some light handling on the boards and spine. In a very good lightly edgeworn dust jacket with small tears won the top edge. 12mo. 48pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Second edition. Preface by Basil Bunting. Binding slightly cocked, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing, and a price sticker on the front flap.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second edition. Preface by Basil Bunting. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Rear cover has a short creased tear, very good. Signed by Pickard, with a small sketch, on the title page. Pickard's first book.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (8pp. including printed covers). Programme of events laid in. Minutely handled. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Preface by Basil Bunting. Spine base gently bumped else fine in lightly worn, near fine dust jacket. Signed by Pickard on the title page. The author's first book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Somewhat uncommon anthology celebrating Morden Tower, a key location in Newcastle for late twentieth century poetry. Features contributions by Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Bob Cobbing, Carol Ann Duffy, Roy Fisher, Allen Ginsberg, Lee Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Barry MacSweeney, Adrian Mitchell, Geraldine Monk, Eric Mottram, Jeff Nuttall, Tom Pickard, J.H. Prynne, Tom Raworth, Gael Turnbull, Anne Waldman, Jonathan Williams, among many others. Some bumping to edges, otherwise a nice copy in Very Good condition.…

Loose Sheets in Envelope. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fifteen items either by, about or picturing Bunting. Second issue envelope a little creased & bumped at edges but not stamped 'KIWC Basil Bunting Bumper Issue'. Signed by Editor.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (8pp. including printed covers). Programme of events laid in. Minutely handled. Signed by Bunting, Thomas A. Clark, Bob Cobbing, Roy Fisher, Gael Turnbull, Eric Mottram, Tom Pickard, Ken Smith & Alan Hull. These were the participants at the Sunday readings. Uncommon; extraordinarily so thus. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. 48pp. Cover by Ian Dury, and with a jacket quotation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Very Good with moderate wear, the edges slightly spotted and the boards a little marked, the prelims also faintly spotted, and with insignificant soiling and a scuff between pp.14-15, in the jacket, slightly rubbed to extremities such as the spine ends, the upper flap fold with a small chip at its tail edge, that flap with an unobtrusive corner crease, and the upper panel a little scratched, but Very Good overall. Although not one of the 50 special copies, this copy has been signed by the author and inscribed to Fred (Hunter). Loosely inserted are an autograph letter signed from Pickard to Hunter, dated 1965, and two cuttings concerning Pickard, dated 1967 and 1974. Signed by Author(s).…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Folio. Cover by Tom Jackrell. About very good in stapled paper wrappers with some toning and chips to the extremities, with the rear wrap loose and a quarter-inch tear along the front edge that extends through the pages. Fragile self-published poetry magazine that includes contributions from Anselm Hollo, Basil Bunting, Charles Tomlinson, John James, Michael Shayer, Matthew Mead, Roy Fisher, Jim Burns, Andrew Crozier, John Temple, and Tom Pickard.…

First Edition. "Deluxe" issue, no. 40 of 50 numbered and signed copies; printed on blue paper (otherwise indistinguishable from the trade issue, so far as this cataloguer can discern). Small, slim octavo; blue paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 48pp. Fine, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, with no printed price on flap, inconspicuous trace of wear at edges; about Fine. First published collection by the great Tyneside working-class poet, founder and central figure of the Morden Tower Book Room; both muse and mentee to Basil Bunting (who supplied the Preface to this volume) and reputedly a driving force behind the writing of Bunting's masterpiece, "Briggflatts". Perhaps our favorite thing about this book, however, is that the jacket was designed by a very young Ian Dury, later of Blockheads fame, done well before his appearance on the London punk scene, at a time when he was attempting to establish a foothold as a visual artist. A great little book, necessarily uncommon in this limitation. Signed.…

First edition. Fifteen separately-printed items, in various sizes and including three graphic pieces, all by or about Basil Bunting. As well as poems by Bunting, there is one in his honour by Gael Turnbull and appreciations by Turnbull and Louis Zukofsky. Also included is the contents sheets signed by Tom Pickard and on which he has ticked the various titles and indicates that the sheet on which is printed his own poem is missing. Fine in the original publishers' manila envelope, with its printed label, which is torn at the flap and nicked and creased at the edges. Scarce.…