Kitchen Poems
J. H. Prynne
ISBN 10: 0206613830 ISBN 13: 9780206613839
Published by Grossman Publishers/ Cape Goliar, 1968
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First Edition. First edition, hardcover limited printing. DJ intact, with mild to moderate edgewear and surface rubbing. Boards lightly bumped at corners, bowed inwards slightly. Spine lettering clear and bright. Binding cocked, but intact. Pages very slightly toned, else clean. Seller Inventory # mon0000126283
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Title: Kitchen Poems
Publisher: Grossman Publishers/ Cape Goliar
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.
Edition: 1st Edition
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Kitchen Poems.
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London: Cape Goliard,, 1968
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Hardcover
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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First trade edition. [30 pp]. Fine in boards. Lacks dust jacket. One of 650 trade hardcover copies. Seller Inventory # 88157
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Kitchen Poems
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Cape Goliard Press, 1968
ISBN 10: 0206613822
ISBN 13: 9780206613822
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Seller: Plantin Books, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small creases to top corner and bottom of spine. Decent clean copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1755361410243
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Kitchen Poems
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Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968
ISBN 10: 0206613822
ISBN 13: 9780206613822
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Seller: Herons' Nest Books, Kings Langley, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # 003163
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KITCHEN POEMS
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London: Cape Goliard Press., 1968
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Softcover
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
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First edition, first printing. Paperback issue. Original illustrated card wrappers, brown double endpapers. Printed on laid paper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. A few light surface marks to the rear panel. Priced 13/6 net to the rear panel. A very nice copy. Issued in an edition of 2700 copies: 2000 soft cover and 700 case bound. The US edition was issued the same year by Grossman Publishers Inc., New York in an edition of 1400 copies: 1000 soft cover and 400 case bound. 'Kitchen Poems' was essentially J. H. Prynne's second attempt at a first book. Of the earlier 'Force of Circumstance and Other Poems' (Routledge, 1962), the poet now recalls that even as it "was being prepared for publication, I'd fallen out of love with it [and] would probably have suppressed it if it had been a practical possibility at the time". It has never been reprinted and is absent from the various iterations of Prynne's collected poems, all of which open with 'Kitchen Poems' which, along with the following year's 'The White Stones' laid the foundations for the poet's still (rapidly) growing body of work. Prynne's former student and fellow poet, Keston Sutherland has asserted that the two books "set out [.] a prospectus for philosophic song so astronomically demanding that Manilius [the first century Roman poet and astronomer] might have shrunk from it in trepidation". If the singing is more characteristic of 'The White Stones', the more "acerbic and politically focused" 'Kitchen Poems' introduces to English poetry a new voice with an intellectual reach and confident command of 'non-poetic' languages (notably that of economics) recalling Pound and Charles Olson, but completely distinct: "And the drift of that is again to divert the / currency (as now in England / to the north-east). As, it was actually losing its grip / on the population: real people, slipping off / the face of that lovely ground, leaving the green & pleasant lands of Northumberland / to be nearer the belly & catch scraps / with the shit we set out so grudgingly / on plates for the blind to eat in gratitude." ('Die A Millionaire (pronounced "diamonds in the air")') (Tencer). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Seller Inventory # 26271
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Kitchen Poems
Seller: Paul Brown, Ramsgate, United Kingdom
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First paperback edition, 1968. unpaginated. Paperback. Very good. Seller Inventory # 27707
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Kitchen Poems
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Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 700 copies. A very nice copy. Seller Inventory # 005316
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KITCHEN POEMS
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London: Cape Goliard Press., 1968
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Softcover
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Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
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First edition, first printing. Limited edition, signed by the author. Original red cloth lettered in silver to the spine, in dustwrapper. Dark brown endpapers, double title page printed in black and red, the four sections of the book divided by pale green patterned pages numbered in red. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the dustwrapper, rubbed, nicked, and a little browned to spine tips and corners. Clipped by the publisher with "Signed £6" written in pencil to the front flap to distinguish this signed and numbered copy from the trade edition. Signed and numbered by the author in black ink to the first page of the double title-page. This copy is number 2 of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author, out of an edition of 2700 copies: 2000 soft cover and 700 case bound. The US edition was issued the same year by Grossman Publishers Inc., New York in an edition of 1400 copies: 1000 soft cover and 400 case bound. 'Kitchen Poems' was essentially J. H. Prynne's second attempt at a first book. Of the earlier 'Force of Circumstance and Other Poems' (Routledge, 1962), the poet now recalls that even as it "was being prepared for publication, I'd fallen out of love with it [and] would probably have suppressed it if it had been a practical possibility at the time". It has never been reprinted and is absent from the various iterations of Prynne's collected poems, all of which open with 'Kitchen Poems'. Frst published in this beautifully produced form by Cape Goliard Press in 1968, the book, along with the following year's 'The White Stones' are the foundations of the poet's still (rapidly) growing body of work. Prynne's former student and fellow poet, Keston Sutherland boldly asserts that the two books "set out [.] a prospectus for philosophic song so astronomically demanding that Manilius [the first century Roman poet and astronomer] might have shrunk from it in trepidation". If the singing is more characteristic of The White Stones, the more "acerbic and politically focused" 'Kitchen Poems' introduces to English poetry a new voice, its intellectual reach and confident command of 'non-poetic' languages (notably that of economics) showing the influence of Pound and Charles Olson but utterly distinct: "And the drift of that is again to divert the / currency (as now in England / to the north-east). As, it was actually losing its grip / on the population: real people, slipping off / the face of that lovely ground, leaving the green & pleasant lands of Northumberland / to be nearer the belly & catch scraps / with the shit we set out so grudgingly / on plates for the blind to eat in gratitude." ('Die A Millionaire (pronounced "diamonds in the air")') (Tencer). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Seller Inventory # 23541
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Kitchen Poems.
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London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968, 1968
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First Edition
Signed
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 6 of 50 copies signed by the author on the title page verso. Influenced by the American modernist Charles Olson, Prynne's second book of poems is now considered one of his finest, though his poetry was not widely appreciated until the publication of his 1982 collected poems (from which he excluded the poems in his first book, Force of Circumstance, which he had by then disowned). "The accomplishment of its language, the beauty of its music, and the seemingly hermetic quality of its significances, all combined to give an almost mythic quality of luminous opacity to the writing" (Poetry). Large octavo. Diagram to title pages printed in red, green patterned interleaves numbered in red. Original red boards, spine lettered in silver, brown endpapers. With dust jacket. Jacket rubbed, extremities nicked, partially erased pencil annotation to front flap, price-clipped: a fine copy in very good jacket. Seller Inventory # 169628
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Kitchen Poems.
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Cape Goliard, London., 1968
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First Edition
Signed
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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First edition. Royal octavo. Unpaginated. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author, out of a total edition of 2700 copies, 700 of which are casebound.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed, price-clipped dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and very slightly rubbed at the edges. Seller Inventory # PRYNNEJH015834
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