A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems by Paul Auster, translator - 2002

Elkin Mathews, London, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 75pp. Patterned boards featuring a handsome design by Laurence Binyon, slightly water-stained at the top edges and worn at the backstrip ends. Front endpaper hinge tender and one section joint cracked. Some slight fox-spotting and the endpapers browned. A good copy. Also includes contributions by 'Anodos' [i.e. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge] (eleven poems), Laurence Binyon (his poems 'The Invocation of Venus' and 'The Willow') Selwyn Image (his poem 'The Truants' Holiday'), Arthur Romney Green (his poems 'Frederika' and 'A Sonnet'), Manmohan Ghose (his poems 'Sonnet', 'Elegy' and 'The Lover and the Painter'), Reginald Balfour (two poems and two translations), and E.L. (four poems)..

Printed for the editor at The Curwen Press, London, 1958. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. The first edition of this selection, and the first with these magnificent Reynolds Stone engravings. 4to. 94pp. One of 300 copies (out of a total edition of 350) designed by Will Carter, printed on Basingwerk parchment, bound in buckram and signed by Reynolds Stone. Stone contributes a title page decoration, five wood engraved plates and a small closing vignette; plus a small gilt decoration to upper board. Buckram just fractionally marked in one or two places, else a fine copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. Twenty-three poems (including the eleven-parter 'Flying Scrolls'), six of which are hitherto unprinted with several others making their first bookform appearance..

Jardine Press, Suffolk, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - the deluxe issue, limited to just 100 numbered copies on handmade paper, signed by both poet and artist, this being the very first number (and proceeding the trade edition, which appeared only in paperback format, by a year). Slim 4to. Full leather. With title-page and colophon decorations and twelve superb woodcuts, one colour-tinted, plus another on the rear endpapers. A hint of occasional chafing to the leather else in fine state with the original rexine slipcase. No dust wrapper called-for. Small former owner name label to the front pastedown. Sixteen poems, the fifth book published by Dodds' Jardine Press. Really quite scarce..

The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, second state (bound in grained cloth instead of smooth). Slim 8vo. 94pp + [ii] advertisements. Dark purplish-blue grained cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A small area of discolouration to the head of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective, paperstock very lightly tanned and with just a hint of spotting to the title page and to very occasional text leaves. A very crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel with a single small area of loss, and with a little further uneven tanning to the front and rear panels. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, along side a date to the base of the front pastedown (this last obscured by the wrapper flap). Larkin's second mature appearance in print. Also includes contributions from Drummond Allison, William Bell, Ian Davie, W.J.Harvey, John Heath-Stubbs, Brian Hutton, Francis King, Christopher… Read More

John Murray, London, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition - the uncommon first state, which was subsequently withdrawn and pulped; this copy seemingly the publisher's file copy, with that text lightly inkstamped to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 66pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just slightly faded at spine panel and at the head of the upper panel, and with a small sliver of staining to the lower edge. Thirty Betjeman poems accompanied by a Piper frontispiece and seventeen line drawings, several of them full-page. Printing errors impacting the poems 'Bristol and Clifton' and 'Sunday Afternoon in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall' necessitated a complete recall and a corrected edition was published the following year. See Peterson A48..

Oakland, CA: Tooley-Towne. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Golden cloth spine, marbled boards, gold pictorial paper label. Cover clean, with sharp corners. Light rubbing along bottom edge. Inscribed by author on front fly leaf. A beautiful copy. ; 43 pages; Signed by Author .

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. 1st. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Interior clean and intact. Page edges with some wear. Cover with bumped corners, some fading and wear, and some small tears to cloth along edges. Please see image. 243pages.

Red cloth with gold gilt lettering to front cover and spine. A very rare title as evidenced by this being the only copy available on the Internet. Gilt to all page edges. Undated but circa late 1800s. A very good copy. 66 pages. No dust jacket as issued. Shelf wear to all extremities and neat previous owner name to front endpaper. The book contains an allegorical poem concerning Providence, Blasphemy, Atheism, Infidelity, Wisdom and Inspiration. The author also wrote 'A Key to Truth, Superseding Darwinism by a Theory of Atomic Force', 'The Rise and Reign of Chaos, A Scientific Epic' and 'The Spectral Rock, A Poem'. This is the only example of this title available on the internet.

First printing (1963). Fine, in as close to fine dust jacket as can be.

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce fourth issue of this little magazine from 1960 Cambridge, with work by Diane di Prima and others. Unmarked copy, minor wear.