Diplopic by Reading Peter (8 results)

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some wear and internal barcode may have been clipped, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. "Diplopic" is a book of Poems by Peter Reading 1983. Purple jacket - purple cover. Purple purple purple! It's a royal color, but the poems are down to earth. And how appropriate is the author's name - Reading. From the dust-jacket blurb: "The double vision of Peter Reading's new poems is neither an affliction nor an affectation; it sees things as it has to, both terrible and funny, ordinary and bizarre. Reading is a poet who finds oddities in Common Rooms, circuses, laboratories, newspapers, operating instructions. Out of them, and much else, he makes his brilliant and disconcerting poems. 'Diplotic' was the Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer of 1983. TITLE : Diplopic AUTHOR : Peter Reading IMPRINT : Secker and Warburg PLACE : London DATE : (1983) EDITION : Second Edition STATUS : OP - OUT OF PRINT DETAILS : Trade hardcover; 57 pages; approximately 5 1/4" x 8 1/4"; purple boards with title, etc. in gold on spine; printed purple dust-jacket - photograph of the author on the rear flap. CONDITION -- BOOK : NEAR FINE -- JACKET : NEAR FINE -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : BOARDS : Bright and clean. BINDING : Solid. INTERIOR : Clean and presentable. DUST-JACKET : Mild surface rub and scattered blind surface indentations (of but small impact).…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn, sun-toned, and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 57 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. Reading, Peter 1946-2011. Poetry. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn, sun-toned, and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 57 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. Reading, Peter 1946-2011. Poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. 57pp. Very good in sunned on the spine and not price clipped d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in jacket. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 599/26. Diplopic. Poems by Peter Reading. …

First thus: three previous collections in one volume. Octavo. 165 pages. Wrappers - there was no hardback edition. Signed by the author on the title page.Cheap paper faintly tanned. Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 165pp; page edges slightly tanned; white covers, black title, minor edgewear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.