Hard Lines New Poetry, First Edition (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two page introduction by Tom Paulin.***Very good in colour illustrated card wrappers. No inscriptions. Spine tight. Paper tanned. Corners of wrappers very slightly rubbed. Crease to bottom edge of back wrapper. Price scratched out neatly on back wrapper. Not faded.***196 mm x 124 mm. 77 pages.***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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, paperback original. Tom Paulin contributes a two-page introduction. Printed wrappers. 77pp. Owner's bookplate on front flyleaf, pages lightly age-toned, near fine. The anthology includes poems by Siobhan Campbell, Ciaran O'Driscoll, James Ballantyne, and more.

London: Faber. 1985. 8vo. Printed paper wrappers; pp. [viii], 9-95; inscribed by Ian Dury to front free endpaper; bookplate loosely inserted; very minor toning to wrappers, internally bright and clean, fine. First edition, inscribed twice by Ian Dury, with a misquoted line from Bob Dylan's song Gates of Eden. Hard Lines 2 is a follow-up volume to Hard Lines, a notable anthology of contemporary poetry, published in 1931. The anthologies are important for bringing together a range of poets to showcase the diversity and innovation of twentieth century poetry.