From UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
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Rosemary Tonks, Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms, Putnam, London 1958, First Edition of this influential compendium of poetry. Rosemary Tonks published several compendia and novels before retiring from public life when she converted to Christianity. This attractively-bound volume is an ex library book with some marks, otherwise it is a clean and tidy book. pp 32 Seller Inventory #002320. Seller Inventory # 002320
Title: Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms
Publisher: Putnam, London
Publication Date: 1958
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Fine cloth-backed board copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Putnam Poetry Books. Physical description: 32p. ; 23cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 305958
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Fine cloth-backed board copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Putnam Poetry Books. Physical description: 32p. ; 23cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 305958
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Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Quarter black buckram with marbled paper-covered boards and gilt lettering to the spine. 32pp. The Author's first poetry collection; A near fine copy in a VG+ dustwrapper priced 8s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The dustwrapper is nicked to the spine tips and sunned to the spine (as often found). No inscriptions. A nice copy. The first volume of Rosemary Tonks' poems; the poet later converted to fundamentalist Christianity and completely withdrew from public life. Photographs/scans available upon request. Seller Inventory # 355490723186
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Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
Quarter Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ DJ. First edition. The first volume of Rosemary Tonk's poems; the poet later converted to fundamentalist Christianity and completely withdrew from public life, allegedly reading nothing but the Bible from her baptism in the River Jordan in 1981 until her death in 2014. Ex libris Alan Coren, his inscription to ffep. Quarter cloth with marbled paper on boards, gilt lettering to spine bright. Spine of dj sunned, some staining to front cover of dj including two mug rings. Otherwise in excellent condition. Seller Inventory # 23363
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Seller: Dufour Editions Inc., Wyomissing, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Like-new book in very good jacket. This copy has never been sold, but has been in the file library of the one-time US distributor. There is a 2x6 cm green bookseller's sticker pasted to the inside front cover. Jacket is sunned at spine and fore-edge, slightly frayed at edges, 6 mm closed tear, price-clipped with USD price stamped on inside front flap. Seller Inventory # 100156
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Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First edition. Publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, in the red printed dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, very crisp, but faded of spine. Loosely laid in are an assortment of press cuttings related to Tonks and the collection, including separately published poems and reviews of the work. Rosemary Tonks's first collection of poetry. Seller Inventory # 44482
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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, pp. 32, crown 8vo, original quarter black cloth with marbled boards, a little rubbing along tail, dustjacket a little sunned to backstrip panel and a small chip at head of lower joint-fold, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Dearest B., much love from Rosemary, 1st March 1963'. This was a month before the book's publication, and whilst the identity of the recipient is obscure, it was clearly a close friend - as a laid-in note, on the verso of a printed Review slip for this book, further corroborates: 'Can you lunch on Monday next? I'll ring you. This isn't out until 1st April'. Her first collection. Poetry of London as a 'great European metropolis' (author's note to dustjacket') or 'Imperial rubbish heap of wastrels' ('Bedroom in an Old City'), experienced in squalid compartments both public and private as the title suggests. Seller Inventory # 74970
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