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POUND, Ezra.
The Literary Essays … Edited with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot.
London, Faber & Faber, [1954].
First edition, first impression.
£75
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POUND, Ezra, and D.G. BRIDSON.
‘An Interview with Ezra Pound’ in New Directions 17. Norfolk, Conn.,
New Directions, [1961].
First edition, printing the majority of the interviews recorded in 1956 and broadcast in 1959. Other contributors to this issue included Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Williams.
£100
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POUND Omar S. and Philip GROVER.
Wyndham Lewis a Descriptive Bibliography … With a Checklist of B.B.C. Broadcasts compiled...
Folkestone, Dawson / Archon Books, [1978].
First edition. Bridson’s checklist appears on pp. 163-75.
£50
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[POUND, Ezra.]
Agenda. Twenty-first Anniversary Ezra Pound Special Issue.
London, Agenda Editions, 1980.
Reprinting a number of works by Pound alongside criticism. Bridson’s article ‘Italian Painting in the Cantos’, one of his last publications, appears on pp. 210-217.
£75
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JARRELL, Randall.
Selected Poems ...
London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1956].
First edition, inscribed ‘With all best wishes, Randall Jarrell / I’ve … enjoyed getting to read for you’.
£150
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MACLEISH, Archibald.
This Music Crept by me upon the Waters.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1953.
First trade edition, inscribed ‘To Geoffrey Bridson through whom alone it happened / with admiration Archibald MacLeish’.
£250
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DYMENT, Clifford.
Poems 1935–1948.
London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, [1949].
First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey and Joyce, with best wishes plus, from Clifford Dyment and Marcella. October 1950’.
£200
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THÓRDARSON, Thórbergur .
In Search of my Beloved. Translated by Kenneth G. Chapman.
[Reykjavik], Helgafell, 1961.
First edition in English, comprising selected portions of Thórdarson’s autobiographical Íslenskur aðall (1938), one of the few translations of his work into English; a presentation copy from the editor: ‘To Mr Geoffrey Bridson in Iceland, June 26, 1963. With best regards Kristján Karlsson’....
£100
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WEST, Nathanael.
Miss Lonelyhearts … with an Introduction by Alan Ross.
London, The Grey Walls Press, [1949].
First UK edition, with a new introduction by Ross. First published in 1933, this ‘acerbic’ black comedy set in New York during the Depression, was adapted and produced for radio by Bridson, broadcast on 25 May 1960, with Sam Wanamaker in the lead role, a male journalist writing an advice column under...
£125
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RACHEWILTZ, Boris de.
L’Elemento magico in Ezra Pound.
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1965.
First edition, no. 182 of 1000 copies, an essay by Pound’s son-in-law published on the occasion of Pound’s eightieth birthday.
£150
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SEMMLER, Clement.
Kenneth Slessor.
[London,] British Council, [1969].
Second edition (first 1966), with updates to the bibliography; inscribed ‘For D.G. Bridson. Clem Semmler, Sydney, 21. 10. 71’.
£45
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SEMMLER, Clement.
The Art of Brian James and other Essays on Australian Literature …
[St Lucia,] University of Queensland Press, [1972].
First edition, inscribed ‘For Joyce & Geoffrey – a memento of your welcome visit again to Sydney / Clem / Jan. 1973’.
£75
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MACLEISH, Archibald.
Conquistador.
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
First edition, signed ‘Archibald MacLeish / Conway, Mass’. This long poem won MacLeish his first of three Pulitzer prizes.
£300
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced by Walter Allen.
London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].
Second (but first published) edition, regular copy.
£50
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GIOVIO, Paolo.
Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus apposita. Quae in musaeo Ioviano Comi spectantur. Addita in calce...
Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546.
First edition of Giovio’s biographies of illustrious men, with several marginal corrections, remarks, and comments by a contemporary reader, whose knowledge of biographies of the past encompassed several authors, including Erasmus.
£3000
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PRINCE, F[rank].
T[empleton]. Soldiers Bathing and other Poems.
London, The Fortune Press, [1954].
First edition, Prince’s second collection, inscribed ‘with good wishes from the author, F. T. Prince. 23 April, 1954.’
£200
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PRINCE, F[rank].
T[empleton].
Poems. London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1938].
First edition of the first collection by the South African-born Prince. Prince had contributed several poems to Eliot’s Criterion in the mid-30s.
£180
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit to the Sous).
London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].
First edition, scarce in the dust-jacket, ‘an account of his travels which Lewis had written after a holiday with his wife in French Morocco and the Spanish Sahara. The book … emerged as one of the liveliest travel-books of the time. Like all of Lewis’s writing, it was quirky and opinionated,...
£500