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ANTHOLOGY.
Unguarded Hours: Ruth Rendell The Strawberry Tree; Helen Simpson Flesh and Grass.
Pandora London Sydney Wellington 1990. Med.8vo format perfect bound; three blanks at end; pp.vi149vii; sage green fine-cloth-textured boards down-lettered and blocked with publisher’s device gilt down-lettered sage-green through gilt on spine. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. The publisher’s file copy rubber-stamped ‘Library copy / Unwin Hyman Limited / 15 - 17 Broadwick Street / London W1V 1FP’ on front end-paper. ‘Pandora Press’ is an imprint of Unwin Hyman Limited. The following errata and typographical flaw have been noted in this copy: p.40 l.5 broken ‘r’ in ‘ran’; p.48 l.13 ‘refused’ for ‘refuse’; p.58 l.13 ‘it’ for ‘its’. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTHOLOGY.
The year’s poetry 1935: A representative selection.
Compiled by Denys Kilham Roberts Gerald Gould John Lehmann. John Lane The Bodley Head 1935. Final blank; pale brown cloth lettered gilt on spine; t.e. blue-grey. Cloth of spine a trifle rubbed and small hole in cloth near top of front joint; colour a little faded on top-edges; otherwise a fine copy. Contributions by Yeats W.H. Davies Binyon Sassoon Edith and Osbert Sitwell Edwin Muir Sylvia Townsend Warner MacDiarmid Church Herbert Read Blunden Roy Campbell Tessimond Michael Roberts Plomer Day Lewis Bottrall Empson Auden Lehmann MacNeice Julian Bell Spender Raine Pudney George Barker Dylan Thomas Dyment David Gascoyne Gavin Ewart etc. A selection made from poems written or published between the summer of 1934 and the summer of 1935 and according to the editors’ Preface “Many of the poems have not previously appeared in printâ€. Others are here first collected from periodicals. Some few are reprinted from volumes. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LRT114106
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ANTHOLOGY.
Modern reading No.
2. Edited by Reginald Moore. Staples Books Limited 83-91 Great Titchfield Street July 1941. Tall double f’cap 16mo; white wrappers cut flush printed in light blue-green; issued without end-papers. Top-edges foxed; otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. Contributors include the editor Storm Jameson R.K. Narayan Woodrow Wyatt John Brophy etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
New writing.
Edited by John Lehmann With the assistance of Christopher Isherwood Stephen Spender. New series II Spring 1939. The Hogarth Press 52 Tavistock Square London W.C.1 1939. Demy 8vo; seven half-tone plates; pp.xii248; pale yellow Sundour cloth lettered on front cover and down spine in black-outlined pale yellow; t.e. orange fore-edges uncut. Cloth very slightly faded on spine and at edges of boards; half-title and last page very slightly foxed; otherwise a fine crisp entirely unopened copy in very slightly marked and darkened dust-wrapper. Rare thus. Includes ‘Eight Poems’ by W.H. Auden ‘The Room’ by Jean-Paul Sartre translated by John Rodker ‘The Informer’ by Brecht poems by David Gascoyne H.B. Mallalieu Geoffrey Parsons Clifford Dyment Kenneth Allott Robert Waller etc. etc. The second volume of New Writing to have been published by The Hogarth Press the original five numbers hailed by ‘The Listener’ as “the ‘Yellow Book’ of the thirties†having been published by Lawrence & Wishart. Woolmer 452 describing the cover lettering as ‘dark blue’ and omitting mention of the top-edges being stained orange. The present copy was purchased by us from the publisher’s file and may conceivably represent either a trial binding or a first issue. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet twenty five.
Drawing by Patricia Moynagh. Contributors: Lyman Andrews Ted Hughes Edwin Morgan and Jeremy Reed. Words Press N.D. 19 . One half-sheet demy 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on light brown paper. Fine. One of an edition limited to 200 numbered copies. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
The Science fiction Source book.
Edited by David Wingrove. Longman on verso of title: Burnt Mill Harlow Essex 1984. Double demy 16mo; numerous illustrations in text; two blanks before half-title two at end serving as end-papers; pp.iv320iv; charcoal beaded-linen-grain textured boards blocked with publisher’s device and name on lettered silver down spine. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. Contributors include Brian Aldis Kingsley Amis Poul Anderson Ray Bradbury Richard Cowper Ursula Le Guin Larry Niven Frederik Pohl Robert Silverberg John Sladek Brian Stableford Lisa Tuttle Gene Wolfe Roger Zelazny etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet thirty.
Drawing by Chris Walker. Contributors: Edwin Morgan George A. Moore Julian Nangle Margaret Pain and John Pudney. Words Press 89 Theberton Street N.D. 19 . One half-sheet demy 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on salmon pink paper. Fine. One of an edition limited to 200 numbered copies. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
Treble poets I: Stephen Miller; Elizabeth Maslen; Kit Wright.
1974 Chatto & Windus. Demy 8vo; pp.64; glazed white card wrappers cut flush printed outside in black and orange; issued without end-papers. Fine copy. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
Transformation Four.
Edited By Stefan Schimanski And Henry Treece. Lindsay Drummond Ltd. 2 Guilford Place N.D. 1947. Scarlet fine net grain cloth blocked black lettered black and scarlet through black on front cover and up spine. Sellotape marks on end-papers final leaf of text and inner flaps of dust-wrapper; otherwise a fine copy in frayed dust-wrapper. Contributors include Henry Miller Jean Paulhan Nicolas Berdyaev Antoine de Saint Exupery Henry Treece Hugo Manning Kenneth Patchen Anais Nin William Saroyan Jean Garrigue Margiad Evans Olaf Stapledon etc. etc. The last volume of the ‘Transformation’ series. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107953
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ANTHOLOGY.
Plays of the Year Edited by J.C.
Trewin. Lark Rise by Keith Dewhurst from the Book by Flora Thompson. Memoir by John Murrell. Bodies by James Saunders. Volume 48. Paul Elek Granada Publishing London Toronto Sydney New York Frogmore St. Albans Herts. AL2 2NF and 3 Upper James Street London W1R 4BP 1980. F’cap 12mo format in sixteens; blank at end; pp.257iii; reddish-brown cloth textured boards lettered gilt on spine. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. From the library of the Editor though without signs of ownership. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LRT114007
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ANTHOLOGY.
A Crown of Amaranth: Being a Collection of Poems To the Memory of the Brave and Gallant Gentlemen Who Gave Their Lives For Great and Greater Britain.
1915 London: Erskine Macdonald. Leaf before title-page bearing printer’s imprint on verso conjugate with pp.15-16 and signed on the recto of the latter ‘B’; title-page and Dedication pages printed in dark red and black; final blank; pp.ii78ii; cream self-wrappers cut flush folded over first and last leaf printed on front panel and down spine in dark red. Slight fading to spine lettering and slight dusting to wrappers; circular greasy mark two inches across on front wrapper shadowing through onto first leaf; otherwise a very nice copy. Apparently scarce. Edited by Erskine Macdonald and S. Gertrude Ford. Poems for the most part either here first published or here first collected from periodicals and including a dedicatory poem to the memory of Rupert Brooke by S. Gertrude Ford. Other poets represented include Frank Taylor Katharine Tynan Alice Meynell W. Snow Ivan Adair Beatrice A. Lees B.M. Hetherington Edward Shillitoe Ruth Duffin A.G. Herbertson F.E. Kenneth John Helston H. Simpson Lt. Dyneley Hussey I.A. Williams Canon Scott Captain Julian Grenfell I. Gollancz George Kelly Laurence Binyon Wynne Stewart A.M. Northwood Violet Gillespie Max Plowman Mildred Huxley Cecil Roberts John Gurdon Ida May the Marquess of Crewe and H.P. Eden. Printed in Ormskirk by Hutton. A ‘New and revised Edition with additional poems’ appeared in 1917. It ran to 84pp. This original edition is apparently very scarce COPAC recording the British Library copy only. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet two.
Drawings by Chris Walker. Contributors: John Pudney and Julian Branston. No Place no publisher no printer N.D. c.1972. One half-sheet lge.post 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on one side only on white paper. Fine copy. One of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies this being one of a small number signed by both poets. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
Plays of the Year Edited by J.C.
Trewin. Yahoo: Based on the life and writings Of Jonathan Swift and devised by Alec Guiness and Alan Strachan. The family dance by Felicity Browne. Beauty and the beast by Frank Marcus. Volume 46. Paul Elek Ltd 54-58 Caledonian Road London N.1 1976. F’cap 12mo format in sixteens; blank at end; pp.278ii; light sea-green cloth textured boards lettered gilt on spine. Very light foxing of top-edges; production damage to back end-paper; otherwise a fine copy in dust-wrapper. From the library of the Editor though without signs of ownership. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTHOLOGY.
Common Ground: An anthology for the young Selected by Leonard Clark.
With illustrations by M.E. Eldridge. Faber and Faber 24 Russell Square London 1967. Blank before half-title; pp.223i blank; white boards printed in black and pale brown on front cover and spine in black on back cover. Fine copy. Presentation copy with the author’s holograph inscription signed ‘Lenny’ on the front end-paper and signed by him in full on the title-page. The second printing of a wide-ranging anthology originally published in 1964. One or two of the poems may have been there first collected. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LRT113918
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ANTHOLOGY.
Australian Writing Today.
Edited by Charles Higham. Penguin Books Harmondsworth Middx. 1968. 6pp. integral advertisements at end; white glazed wrappers printed in black and colours. Very slight uniform embrowning of poor quality paper throughout; otherwise a fine copy. Includes work by R.D. FitzGerald A.D. Hope Ross Campbell Alan Moorehead W. Hart-Smith Alwyn Lee Patrick White Douglas Stewart Peter Cowan Judith Wright Charles Osborne Bruce Beaver Peter Porter Randolph Stow Robert Hughes John Baxter the editor etc. etc. Penguin 2781. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
First offenders: New poems by Ananda Steve Parr Mike Howes Nigel Seller.
Introduction by Hugo Williams. Front cover from a design by Amanda Parker. Friends Arts No place First published 1982. A5 format 52pp. wire-stitched as a single gathering into buff card wrappers printed outside in black; half-title not called for; final page blank. Fine copy. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
Short plays from Twelve countries Selected by Winifred Katzin.
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. London Bombay Sydney 1937. Fly-title to publisher’s inserted catalogue and 24pp. inserted catalogue followed by integral blank at end; pp.344iiii; light sea-green cloth ruled blind on front cover blocked and lettered gilt on spine. Edges and prelims. foxed; otherwise a nice copy. Plays by Hiyoshi Sa-ami Yasukiyo Garrick Fath’Ali Gogol Sandor Martinescu J. du Plessis Louvigny de Montigny etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet seven.
Drawing by Brenda Rudolf. Contributors: Anthony Rudolf and Leonard Clark. No publisher no place no date Words Press 1974. One half-sheet lge.post 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on one side only on white paper. Fine copy. One of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : LRT114089
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ANTHOLOGY.
Like water like fire: An anthology of Byelorussian poetry From 1828 to the present day.
Translated by Vera Rich. London George Allen & Unwin Ltd Ruskin House Museum Street 1971. Double med.16mo; blank before half-title; map on verso of half-title; pp.347i blank; dark green rexine lettered gilt down and on spine. Small crack in rexine at tail of back joint; otherwise a fine copy in dust-wrapper. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
Modern Reading 14.
Edited by Reginald Moore. Phoenix House Limited 38 William IV Street Charing Cross London W.C.2 February 1947. Double cr.16mo; editorial page with title-page on verso and Contents page with copyright information on verso precede first leaf of text; half-title not called for; 7pp. plates included in pagination; pp.167i colophon; light sand cloth ruled blocked and lettered red down spine. Fine copy in very slightly dusty dust-wrapper. Redwood Anderson Henry Miller Sylvia Townsend Warner Norman Nicholson Frank O’Connor Walter Allen Idris Davies T.O. Beachcroft etc. The first volume of Modern Reading to be issued in hard covers. In this copy the back panel of the dust-wrapper has been corrected by the deletion in blue crayon of ‘English Story’ from the list of works edited by Reginald Moore. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTHOLOGY.
Poetry Supplement Compiled by Stuart Montgomery For the Poetry Book Society.
Poetry Book Society Ltd 105 Piccadilly London W1V 0AU Christmas 1976. Demy 8vo; half-title not called for; pp.64; dull blue-grey wrappers printed in black on front and back wrappers in cerise on front wrapper cut flush; issued without end-papers. A fine copy. Poems by Tom Pickard Roy Fisher Paul Buck and the editor. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Peter Riley & Helen Dennis.
First page: Other Branch Readings No.18. Inside back wrapper: September 1982. 8pp. A5 format sewn into pale green card wrappers printed in black on front and inside back wrappers; fore-edges uncut; issued without end-papers or dust-wrapper. Fine copy. One of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : LRT114000
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ANTHOLOGY.
Cambridge Poets 1914-1920.
An anthology Compiled by Edward Davison. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 1920. Title-page printed in carmine and black; imprint leaf printed on recto only and blank at end these serving as end-papers; pp.xii220; black smooth cloth ruled blind lettered gilt on front cover ruled and lettered gilt on spine; fore- and lower- edges uncut. A fine copy. Scarce. Includes poems by Martin Armstrong Rupert Brooke Gerald Bullett James Elroy Flecker Rosamond Lehmann Harold Monro Siegfried Sassoon Edward Shanks Fredegond Shove J.C. Squire R.C. Trevelyan Iolo Williams Hilton Young etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
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ANTHOLOGY.
Before The Romantics: An anthology of the Enlightenment chosen by Geoffrey Grigson.
1984 The Salamander Press Edinburgh. Sm.double cr.16mo; two blanks at end; pp.xiv349v; glazed white card wrappers cut flush printed outside in red and black; issued without end-papers. Fine copy. Reprint of a book first published in 1946 with an additional Author’s Note here first published. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet four.
Drawings by Artemis. Contributors: James Kirkup Eric W. White and Julian Nangle. No Place no publisher no printer N.D. c.1973. One half-sheet lge.post 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on one side only on lilac paper. Fine. One of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies this copy being signed by Julian Nangle. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet four.
Drawings by Artemis. Contributors: James Kirkup Eric W. White and Julian Nangle. No Place no publisher no printer N.D. c.1973. One half-sheet lge.post 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on one side only on lilac paper. Fine. Number 5 of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies this being one of a very small number of copies signed by all the contributors. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
The Mint.
A Miscellany Of Literature Art And Criticism. Edited by Geoffrey Grigson. Routledge and Sons Ltd 1946. Double demy 16mo; blank before half-title; four double-sided plates; brown buckram panelled scarlet within gilt ruled box and lettered gilt down spine. Enamel chipped on spine; otherwise a nice copy. Contributors include Auden Sean O’Casey Graham Greene Rhys Davies Owen Barfield John Clare ! James T. Farrell etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107857
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ANTHOLOGY.
Aldous Huxley 1894-1963.
A Memorial Volume Edited by Julian Huxley. 1965 Chatto & Windus. Demy 8vo; portrait frontispiece; light blue cloth lettered gilt down spine; t.e. royal blue. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. Contributors include Lord David Cecil Sir Kenneth Clark Stephen Spender Igor Stravinsky T.S. Eliot Sir Osbert Sitwell Leonard Woolf Naomi Mitchison Andre Maurois Yehudi Menuhin Anita Loos Gerald Heard Christpher Isherwood etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107758
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ANTHOLOGY.
Key Poets.
Ten volumes complete each f’cap 16mo format wire-stitched into plain white card wrappers cut flush at top- and lower- edges white dust-wrapper folded round and tipped-on at the flaps as under: Poor men’s music. by Edith Sitwell Hon. D.Litt. Leeds Hon D.Litt. Durham. Key Poet 1. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Pp.24. TOGETHER WITH: The True confession Of George Barker. by George Barker. Key Poet 2. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Pp.36. TOGETHER WITH: The god In the cave. by Randall Swingler. Key Poet 3. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Pp.23i blank. TOGETHER WITH: Twinter’s Wedding. by Jonathan Denwood. Key Poet 4. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Final blank; pp.45iii. TOGETHER WITH: The Common festival. by Stanley Snaith. Key Poet 5. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Verso of title printed in black and green; pp.24. TOGETHER WITH: Fugue For our time. by Dorian Cooke. Key Poet 6. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Verso of title printed in black and green; final blank; pp.22ii. TOGETHER WITH: Three letters to Nikolai Tikhonov. by Jack Lindsay. Key Poet 7. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Pp.24. TOGETHER WITH: Gentle exercise. by Maurice Carpenter. Key Poet 8. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Pp.24. TOGETHER WITH: Aspects of love. by Jack Beeching. Key Poet 9. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Pp.23i blank. TOGETHER WITH: Forgive me sire. by Norman Cameron. Key Poet 10. London Fore Publications Limited 1950. Pp.24. A couple of the wrappers very slightly faded; otherwise a fine set. The first volume is Fifoot EA44. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
Public Lending Right: A Matter of Justice.
Edited by Richard Findlater. Introduction by Lord Goodman. Andre Deutsch / Penguin Books 1971. Double cr.16mo; light green boards lettered gilt down spine. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. Contributors include Angus Wilson and John Fowles. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107918
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ANTHOLOGY.
Preston Polytechnic Poets: Duncan Glen Ian Harrow Philip Pacey Hugh Probyn.
Edited by Duncan Glen. With illustrations by John Hodkinson. The Harris Press Preston Lancs. 1977. A5 format perfect bound printed throughout in dark brown; frontispiece on verso of half-title and other illustrations on text-paper; final blank; pp.53iii; cream card illustrated wrappers cut flush printed in light and dark brown. Very nice copy. Scarce. A handsome volume designed by Duncan Glen. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : LRT114041
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ANTHOLOGY.
The Girls from Esquire.
Edited by Frederic A. Birmingham. Arthur Barker 1953. Half-title printed black on cream; double-spread title utilising verso of half-title in orange lettered in black and white and illustrated in black; headlines and illustrations throughout printed in a variety of colours; deep yellow end-papers; pink cloth blocked and lettered yellow lettered red-through-black panelled black on spine; t.e. yellow. Enamel slightly rubbed on spine; some fading of cloth; otherwise a fine copy of a strikingly designed book. Contributors include John Steinbeck Irwin Shaw F. Scott Fitzgerald John Dos Passos Elliot Paul Robert C. Ruark Paul Gallico Etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107826
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ANTHOLOGY.
Why Abstract
Hilaire Hiler; Henry Miller; William Saroyan. London The Falcon Press Limited 1948. Sm.med.8vo; blank before half-title blank at end; pp.ii108ii; cerise cloth lettered gilt down spine; red-and-white head and tail bands. Poor quality paper lightly embrowned throughout; otherwise a very nice copy in frayed and slightly chipped dust-wrapper. A discussion of representational versus abstract painting by Hiler an artist who had moved on from figurative to abstract art Miller who took lessons from him and Saroyan whom he numbered amongst his friends. The book takes the form of a Letter and Postscript from Hiler to a friend in New York who had liked his representational paintings better than his abstract ones with Note from Saroyan and Miller’s Letter sandwiched between. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT117788
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ANTHOLOGY.
The second book of the Poets’ club.
The Poets’ Club Christmas 1911. Sm.demy 8vo; pp.48; half-title not called for; very light brown boards lettered brown on front cover and up spine; fore- and lower- edges uncut. Very light marginal embrowning; otherwise a fine copy in frayed torn and chipped original wax-paper dust-wrapper. Contributors include Compton Mackenzie Maurice Hewlett Oscar Browning Robert Ross Walter Crane Victor Plarr T. Sturge Moore Ernest Rhys Florence Farr Harold Monro etc. etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LRT114053
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ANTHOLOGY.
Poetry Supplement Compiled by Colin Falck For the Poetry Book Society Christmas 1977.
Demy 8vo; half-title not called for; orange wrappers printed in black on front and back wrappers in brown on front wrapper cut flush; issued without end-papers. A fine copy. Poems by Fleur Adcock Brownjohn Enright John Fuller Roy Fuller Thom Gunn Hamburger Ted Hughes Andrew Motion etc. etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
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ANTHOLOGY.
The Rationalist Annual For the year 1954.
Edited by Hector Hawton. Watts & Co 5 & 6 Johnson’s Court Fleet Street EC4 N.D. 1953. Demy 8vo; advertisement leaf precedes title-page; half-title not called for; 7pp. publisher’s and associated advertisements at end; pale fawn cloth lettered red up spine. Fine in dust-wrapper. Contributors include Bertrand Russell J.B.S. Haldane and Somerset Maugham. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107923
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet two.
Drawings by Chris Walker. Contributors: John Pudney and Julian Branston. No Place no publisher no printer N.D. c.1972. One half-sheet lge.post 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on one side only on white paper. Fine copy. One of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : LRT114083
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ANTHOLOGY.
The pocket poets.
New voices. Selected by Alan Pryce-Jones. Edward Hulton 1959. Post 8vo; white card wrappers printed in orange and black cut flush. Slight staining/embrowning of front end-papers; otherwise a nice copy. Thomas Blackburn Edwin Brock Donald Davie D.J. Enright Thom Gunn Ted Hughes Elizabeth Jennings Philip Larkin Peter Levi Christopher Logue W.S. Merwin Burns Singer R.S. Thomas etc. etc. Not listed in Bloomfield’s bibliography of Larkin. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : LRT113978
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ANTHOLOGY.
Plays of the Year Edited by J.C.
Trewin. Home by David Storey. The Patrick Pearse motel by Hugh Leonard. Trelawny by Aubrey Woods Julian Slade George Rowell From Pinero’s Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ Volume 41 1971-2. Paul Elek Ltd 54-58 Caledonian Road London N.1 1972. F’cap 12mo format in sixteens; 5pp. integral advertisements followed by blank at end; pp.352v3; pale blue cloth textured boards lettered gilt on spine. Very light foxing of top-edges; otherwise a fine copy in slightly creased dust-wrapper. From the library of the Editor though without signs of ownership. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LRT114002
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ANTHOLOGY.
New writings in s-f 12.
Edited by John Carnell. Dennis Dobson 1968. Lge 16mo; two blanks at end serving as end-papers; dark brown linen-grain boards lettered silver on spine. Fine copy in marked and torn dust-wrapper. James White John M. Harrison Rankine Kapp Sellings. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : MRT116357
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ANTHOLOGY.
Modern Tales of horror Selected by Dashiell Hammett.
Victor Gollancz Ltd 14 Henrietta Street Covent Garden 1932. Sm.cr.8vo; pp.448; black buckram lettered scarlet on spine. Front end-paper and half-title lacking; poor quality paper very lightly embrowned; otherwise a nice copy. Includes stories by William Faulkner John Collier L.A.G. Strong Conrad Aiken H.P. Lovecraft Stephen Vincent Benet Donald Wandrei Frank Belknap Long etc. as well as an Introduction by the Editor. The Lovecraft story ‘The Music of Erich Zann’ was originally published in the May 1925 issue of ‘Wierd Tales’ and is here first published in book form. This appearance not listed in Chalker. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : MRT116355
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ANTHOLOGY. Cover title:
Words Broadsheet twenty four.
Drawing by Margaret McFall. Contributors: Bill Boyle Jane Deverson Michael J. Hussey and Brian Patten. Words Press 89 Theberton Street N.D. c.1977. One half-sheet demy 8vo folded in four leaves uncut unsewn printed on light green paper. Fine. One of an edition limited to 200 numbered copies. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : LRT114097
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ANTHOLOGY.
Murder Cavalcade By Mystery Writers Of America Inc.
Edited by Ken Crossen With a preface by Richard Lockridge. Hammond Hammond & Company 1953. Double post 16mo; acknowledgements leaf with advertisements on verso followed by two integral advertisement leaves at end; glazed rough black cloth blocked and lettered gilt on spine. Fine copy in chipped dust-wrapper. Includes stories by Derleth Dorothy Hughes Q. Patrick Phoebe Atwood Taylor Anthony Boucher etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : KRT112974
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ANTHOLOGY.
The Penguin New writing 34 Edited by John Lehmann.
Penguin Books London and New York 1948. Double cr.16mo; eight double-sides plates printed in sepia; other illustrations on text-paper; white wrappers printed in green black and red. Poor quality paper slightly embrowned in margins; otherwise a nice copy. Includes work by MacNeice George Barker Michael Hamburger Walter Allen Rayner Heppenstall Christopher Isherwood Nelson Algren etc. all either here first published or appearing for the first time in England as well as reprinted pieces by Edith Sitwell and Julia Strachey. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : JRT107906
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ANTHOLOGY.
The Best Short Stories of 1929.
II: American. Edited by Edward J. O’Brien. London Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1929. Blank before half-title; blue cloth lettered white on front cover ruled blocked and lettered white on spine blocked with publisher’s initials device white on back cover. Very slight fading of spine but a near-fine copy. Includes stories by Sherwood Anderson Konrad Bercovici Willa Cather Robert McAlmon William Carlos Williams etc. all of them here first collected from periodicals. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107776
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ANTHOLOGY.
Of books and Humankind: Essays and Poems Presented to Bonamy Dobree.
Edited by John Butt Assisted by J.M. Cameron D.W. Jefferson and Robin Skelton. Routledge and Kegan Paul 1964. Demy 8vo; portrait frontispiece; final blank; carmine cloth lettered gilt up spine. Very slight marginal embrowning; otherwise a fine copy in slightly frayed dust-wrapper embrowned on back panel. Includes ‘For the Indian soldiers who died in Africa’ a poem by T.S. Eliot apparently otherwise uncollected; poems by Auden Roy Fuller John Heath-Stubbs Geoffrey Hill Ted Hughes James Kirkup Jon Silkin Robin Skelton Stephen Spender etc. prose contributions by Richard Hoggart Herbert Read Bonamy Dobree G. Wilson Knight A. Norman Jeffares etc. etc. According to the list at the end there were fifty-five subscribers to the volume. From the library of contributor John Heath-Stubbs and bearing the publisher’s presentation slip tipped on to the front free end-paper and the bookplate of the recipient on the paste-down. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LRT113981
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ANTHOLOGY.
Poetry Introduction 5.
Faber and Faber London: Boston 1982. Blank before half-title; three blanks at end; pp.121vii; glazed white wrappers cut flush printed on front wrapper and down spine in black orange and cerise on back wrapper and inside covers in black; issued without end-papers. A fine copy. Wendy Cope Duncan Forbes Michael Hofmann Medbh McGuckian Blake Morrison Simon Rae Joe Sheerin. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown
Bookseller reference : LRT114023
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ANTHOLOGY.
Possible worlds Of Science fiction.
Edited by Groff Conklin. Grayson & Grayson Ltd. 16 Maddox Street 1952. Double cr.16mo; leaf of copyright acknowledgments at end; deep pink boards lettered black on spine. Nice copy. Stories by Van Vogt Bradbury Asimov Leinster Vance Berryman Simak Anderson etc. all here first appearing in book form together with a six page introduction by the editor. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : MRT116362
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ANTHOLOGY.
Essays by Divers Hands: Being the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature.
New series volume XXXII Edited by Joanna Richardson M.A. F.R.S.L. Oxford University Press 1963. Demy 8vo; pp.viii144; mottled blue rough cloth ruled and lettered on lettered up spine silver. Fine copy in minutely frayed dust-wrapper. Contributors include C. Day Lewis Pamela Hansford Johnson Margaret Kennedy Steven Runciman etc. the subjects treated including Anatole France William Golding Proust and Joyce Cary. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : JRT107808
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ANTHOLOGY.
Selected poems: George Every; J.C.D.
Pellow; S.L. Bethell. Staples Press Limited P.S. King and Staples Limited Cavendish Place London W.1 N.D. c.1946. Demy 8vo; integral advertisement leaf at end; pp.77i blankii verso blank; dark leaf green cloth lettered black up spine. Two small faded spots on spine; end-papers foxed; otherwise a very nice copy in badly chipped and worn dust-wrapper. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LRT114054
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