The Less Deceived Poems, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 45 pp; Very nice book in dust jacket with a 1 inch long rubbed area on the edge, touch of age toning slong the dust jacket edge, remains a very nice tight clean attractive book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. First American edition. Light creasing and chipping to the dust jacket. Minor wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. 1st US edition. Owner's name on pastedown. Writing and underlining inside. (poetry).

8vo., First Edition thus, neat contemporary signature on half-title, later signature on front wrapper inner; yapped edges, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped, faintly age-soiled dustwrapper. This is the first paperback edition [denoted by Bloomfield the 'second impression'], one of 1320 copies with a) type reset; b) the misprint 'floor' for 'sea' on p.38 corrected; c) the list of subscribers omitted. Bloomfield A6 (and see p.22).

The first paperback edition (denoted by Bloomfield the ''second edition''). Plain wrappers. Octavo. 43 pages. One of 1320 copies. The type was reset for this issue. The misprint on page 38 was corrected and the list of subscribers before publication dropped. There were three other minor changes. There is no indication on the verso of the title-page that this is a new edition. Twenty-nine poems.Very near fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and a bit nicked and creased at top edge.

8vo. pp 43, [2]. Pink paper dust jacket lettered black with floral motif border. Original publisher's green buckram cloth with gilt lettering at spine. First edition, 2nd state with a rounded spine and price label (reading 7s 6d nett) to the front dust jacket flap. Pages toned, light toned offsetting at endpapers, some light spots throughout and heavier at top edge, spine ends and corners bumped, boards slightly faded, else binding firm. good plus in faded, slightly edgeworn with shallow tears and chips at head of spine, good plus dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition, first issue with the flat spine. The misprint "floor" for "sea" in the first line of the poem 'Absences'. Slim 8vo. 43pp + [ii] list of subscribers. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on Abbey Mills antique laid paper. Poet Dannie Abse's copy, with his inked ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Damp marking to the corners of the boards. Free endpapers lightly browned. A good copy in dust wrapper, with the price 6/- nett printed to the base of the front panel, as required for this first state. The wrapper split into two parts and with about half of the spine panel now absent. A respectable copy of the author's third major collection of verse. The first edition comprised a total of 700 copies, and just 300 of those were initially bound. This first issue sold out swiftly and the remaining 400 were then bound, these later examples produced with rounded spines and so easily identifiable as the second issue. Both the first and second issue are now most uncommon, but this first issue somewhat more so. Bloomfield A6.