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Published by Anvil Press, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0856460117ISBN 13: 9780856460111
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 158pp. Spine sunned; lettering unaffected. Book.
Published by Anvil Press Poetry, 1974
ISBN 10: 0856460087ISBN 13: 9780856460081
Seller: CONTINENTAL MEDIA & BEYOND, Ocala, FL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Used: Very Good. 1974 hc no dj clean text has some age spots on edge of pages 158 pages/// L-19.
Published by London: Anvil Press Poetry (1974)., 1974
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 158 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly edgeworn. Errata slip tipped in at rear.
Published by Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1974
Seller: Lazy Letters Books, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rubbed and edge-worn jacket. Minimal wear to book.
Published by Anvil Press, LONDON, 1974
ISBN 10: 0856460087ISBN 13: 9780856460081
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: VG++. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First British Edition. Errata sheet laid-in at back of book; tape marks to DW; Book is in beautiful condition.158pp.
Published by Anvil Press Poetry in association with Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0856460087ISBN 13: 9780856460081
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. 158 pages. A tight very near fine copy with errata slip in a very good dust jacket that has some minor wear.
Published by Anvil Press Poetry in association with Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0856460117ISBN 13: 9780856460111
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
First edition. Softcover. 158 pages. A tight close to near fine copy with errata slip and with some minor wear.
Published by Anvil Press, London, 1974
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Blue Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 158pp. On the title is written ' To Roma with very pleasant memories of my visit to Sheffield from Ronald 20th March 1975 (Actual publication date!).' Now protected dust jacket is price-clipped and sunned at the spine. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Anvil Press, 1974., 1974
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition. 8vo. 158pp. Original boards, d/w. slightly rubbed to edges with 1.5cm. tear. US$10.
Published by Anvil Press / Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped, now in a clear protective sleeve. Original blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. No inscription. Errata slip tipped in. 158 pages clean and tight. Poems1955 - 1973 by Ronald Bottrall. Ronald Bottrall, born in 1906, emerged as a notable poet in the thirties when F. R. Leavis singled out his early work for attention. His Collected Poems (1961) was warmly received. The major part of his new book was written during 1972, and in these recent poems the mature talents of a very distinctive and distinguished writer are at their best. The book is in five parts; the first is a single long narrative poem, rich in humour, about the poet's Cornish childhood. There follow groups of shorter poems about people, events and places-lyrical, meditative, or satirical; and always superbly skilful. `Ronald Bottrall is manifestly a poet with two great gifts-a "metaphysical intelligence" and an car of incredible sensitivity, which can draw latent rhythms out of the most unpromising colloquial doninee. But he is also a "maker", forger of exquisite lyric artefacts, and some of his lyrics must be among the best of the century. He is a modern poet in that he is always aware of the pressures of the modern world (the world outside the window, the world in the newspapers), and he reacts to these pressures in a highly idiosyncratic way: he does not, like Auden, yield to them and pretend to enjoy them. This new volume from a poet who deeply affected my generation should be a considerable literary event and perhaps affect, as deeply, a new generation of readers.' -ANTHONY BURGESS. `This collection is Ronald Bottrall's best book and "Talking to the Ceiling" is his best poem, the most richly and deeply human poem he has ever written. It is in the great English tradition of sympathetic comedy. The very precision and detail, and unself-consciousness, of the particularization makes for an awakening in the reader of universal sympathy. God is in the details, as Aby Warburg said, and the voice is Bottrall's own, as a person and a poet, without masks or personae or any of that fiddle.' -G. S. FRASER. `What has most impressed inc about this collection, by a still bewilderingly undervalued poet, has been the extremely skilful equilibrium that it maintains both between passion and reason and between freedom and control in its use of metrification and rhyme. The second thing that has impressed has been that, despite its wide range of subjects and of woods, it nonetheless has an extraordinary homogeneity. It contains a number of admirable poems but as a whole it is better than any of its individual parts. -FRANCIS KING. Cover by Patrick Haytnan. Size: 8vo.
Publisher's black cloth, pictorial dustjacket (with a few insignificant tears). Inscription: "To Karl Ragnar Gierow a belated memorial of our taxi-ride at 2.30 am from Ronald Bottrall 20th March 1975 (publication day!)". London, Anvil Press Poetry / Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. 8vo. 160 pp. (last leaf blank) + errata slip.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this collection of poetry by Ronald Bottrall. A publisher's presentation copy, with an ink inscription to title page: "To Cecily, with best wishes from Ronald, 20th March 1975 (publication day!)". Ronald Bottrall was a popular Cornish poet, who held a number of influential positions during his life. Some of his other poetry collections include 'Festivals of Fire', 'Farewell and Welcome', and 'Day and Night'. In a paper covered binding with original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Very minor shelfwear to the boards. Dustwrapper has light sunning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.