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Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Volume 3. No.12 November-December 1947. First impression of the true first edition of the twelfth issue in the original series of this historic poetry magazine edited by Tambimuttu. Front cover colour illustration of the Lyre-bird by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original dark blue printed and monochrome illustrated stapled covers. The covers are quite clean - just slightly marked and creased, commensurate with age and handling, but please note that there is a bump to the bottom outer corner which affects all pages (please see scans). The staples are rusted, as is often the case with these magazines. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean with hardly any of the usual foxing. No tears. ***40 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: Words, Song, The Knife, Leukothea; Kathleen Raine: Seen in a Glass; George Barker: To W. S. Graham; Pablo Neruda: Celery, Barcarolle; Iain Fletcher: Twin Poems on the Single Theme (T.T), Metro-Delphic Inc.; Norman Nicholson: Song at Night; Ronald Bottrall: Proserpine at Enna, Perambulation; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Sixth Elegy, The Seventh Elegy, The Eighth Elegy, the Ninth Elegy, The Tenth Elegy; Bernard Spencer: Regent's Park Terrace; Eithne Willkins: Portrait, Eurydike; Philip O'Connor: A Disturbed Environment. ***Points of View: Three Exiles by Hugh Gordon Porteus, Going West by Nicholas Moore; A Polarity by John Heath-Stubbs; Tout Aux Tavernes et Aux Filles by Richard March. ***Vol. 3. No. 12 - the twelfth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***Starting with this edition, due to post-war economic conditions, the publication was reduced back down to 40 pages, from the expanded format of 64 and 72 pages that issues 7 to 11 had enjoyed. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Colour cover and two black and white wartime underground drawings) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.2, No.7 - the seventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by Henry Moore. ***'This issue of P. L. is dedicated to T. S. Eliot with respect and affection.' - as stated on the title page. Complete with the Henry Moore illustrations - colour cover illustration of The Lyre Bird, and black and white wartime London underground drawings. Four page centrefold: Group of Figures in Underground Shelter, 1941 - drawing by Henry Moore; Poem by Anne Ridler in facsimile handwriting; Two Figures sharing same green blanket; continuation of poem by Anne Ridler in facsimile handwriting. ***Very good in the original cream, black and red printed stapled card covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are quite clean, with just some sporadic foxing. Small split to the covers at the base of the spine. Light creasing to the top corners of the first few pages. Staples rusted but less than usual. Internally also very good - pages clean with hardly any of the usual foxing. A few marks and light creases. No tears. The centre-spread of illustrations is printed on higher quality cartridge paper. Spine tight. ***64 pages (plus adverts on inside of covers) - the magazine was expanded with this issue from the original 36 page format. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Edwin Allan: The Last Night, A Dream; George Barker: Cycle of Five Love Poems translated from the Montenegran; John Bayliss: Sonnet; Laurence Clark: On 48 Hours Leave, A Sociologist's Song, Nightfall by the Sea, July 13th, The Enemy, Parting by Water; Alex Comfort: Out of What Calms; Keith Douglas: Pas de Trois, Stars; Lawrence Durrell: Epidaurus; Gavin Ewart: For Whom the Bell Tolls; James Forsyth: Poem; W. S. Graham: Fourth Sonnet, The Third Journey, O Gentle Queen, Soon to be Distances; John Hall: Elegy on a Hill, Hours Like Tears; John Heath-Stubbs: Mozart; Sean Jennett: March, Raid, Aran, Sonnet; Francis King: On the Body of a Soldier; Emanuel Litvinoff: Epilogue to War; Norman Nicholson: Five Rivers; Kathleen Raine: Love-Poem, Chrysalis, To A. M., A Strange Evening; Keidrych Rhys: Sheep: Gwynfe; Anne Ridler: Poem, Epithalamion; Lynette Roberts: The New World, River Plate, Time Was; Alan Rook: Lager; Tom Scott: Poem for George Barker; Francis Scarfe: The Old Man of the Sea, Seventh Letter; Julian Symons: The Intellectuals; Henry Treece: Ballad, Walking at Night; Peter Wells: Poem in Time of Famine; David Wright: Libra, Poem for H; Points of View: T. S. Eliot 1. by George Orwell; 2. by Kathleen Raine; Cover by Henry Moore. ***Vol. 2. No. 7 - the seventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue No. 7 was the first of the series to have a full colour cover, and was also expanded from 36 to 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. This issue was also the first to have a contents page, and the first to have full page illustrations. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background). The bottom corner of the page block is slightly creased throughout. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a small black contemporaneous bookseller's label to bottom of first page: 'G. R. Downing, Bookseller, Fore Street, St. Ives, C'. Pages sporadically lightly foxed. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. Lower corners of most pages also lightly creased. The three pages of colour lithographs, including the centrefold, are bright and clean, and are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on normal thick paper (not the thin postwar economy paper as used in comparative Issue No. 9). ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers slightly creased and rubbed, with a surface crease across the top corner and a smaller surface crease across the bottom corner of the front cover, and a slight bump to the tail of the spine. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.