loanhead tragara press (23 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Dark blue wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 120 copies. "Clouds havock a bent sky. / A bare unlovable place, / And a tree the blast scours and wrongs. / Elsewhere, utterly elsewhere, / Sheep, orchards, the bulged barns, / A slow river fat with silt, / And a net tightening, drawing close / The loud thresh and leaping thrust, / A springing and untoiled magnificence, / The shiver, shine and sinewing of light" ("Georgics"). Alfred David Burnett, poet and sometime librarian, was one of the most consistent supporters of the Tragara Press, founded by Anderson in 1954, and author of the lucid introduction to Steven Halliwell's Fifty Years of Hand-Printing: a bibliography of the Tragara Press (2005). Halliwell A124.

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. Printer's proof sheets, loose without the card wrappers, inscribed by him "proof sheets" on the limitation page. The published edition was limited to 62 numbered copies signed by the author. "Recalled at last for a pink happening, / the sassy Whitehall ceremonials / proclaim his mordant camp sagacity, / his drag investiture, all brimmish hat - / a UFO concept in mauve felt . . .".

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Unpaginated 8pp dis-bound proof copy of 34 line poem privately printed by Alan Anderson at The Tragara Press. Together with an extra title page. Two sample pages are supplied - one printed on Gainsborough and the other on Teton paper. All protected in a clear archival envelope.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dark blue wrappers, slightly creased. Edition limited to 74 copies, of which this is one of 25 reserved for the author, this copy inscribed by him to Robin Robertson, "To Robin who loves beautiful printing Jeremy"; loosely inserted his presentation autograph letter signed, 2pp. 8vo, London, 9 October 1990 - "I'm sending you my poem for David Gascoyne's 74th birthday [10 October]. He still remains for me one of the most original of English poets, and one of the few who is European in his sympathies . . .". Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Turquoise wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 62 numbered copies signed by the author. "Recalled at last for a pink happening, / the sassy Whitehall ceremonials / proclaim his mordant camp sagacity, / his drag investiture, all brimmish hat - / a UFO concept in mauve felt . . .". Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Dark green wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 85 numbered (and 15 lettered) copies "designed and printed" by Alan Anderson. "Wind's littoral work is / To make beds uneasy / To counterfeit dreams and / To disturb them coldly, / Hold us where we know not. / Tide's trick is to present / Irons and bewilder,  / Uncovering scars and / Washing them. (The absent / Swellstrength with dignity / Lifts distant heads that are / Not to be recognised).  / What is this lost object?  / A fish head, immobile / Clown face, refusing its / Death story . . ." Halliwell B78.

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Single green card sheet, folded. Edition limited to 120 copies, "of which fifty are reserved for the author . . . printed by the Tragara Press as a Christmas greeting for friends of the Enitharmon Press". Thirty-six line poem - "A paintbox or a child's palette / creates that watery blue or grey . . ."; loosely inserted cream-paper proofs of the title and text.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Purple wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 75 numbered copies. "Shelley's Centenary", a poem commemorating the centenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's birth on 4 August 1792, was first printed in The Spectator for 30 July 1892, and then issued by T.J. Wise in an edition of 25 copies, "printed for private distribution" - though Steven Halliwell questions the strict limitation, having tracked down "rather a large number" (he lists 24). "Lachrymae Musarum", a poem written after the death of Alfred Tennyson on 6 October, was commissioned by The Illustrated London News and printed there on 15 October, before being issued by Wise in an edition (again "printed for private distribution"), this time of 100 copies. William Watson, who turned 34 on 2 August 1892, had been pursuing a career as a critic. Halliwell, who contributes efficient background and bibliographical information on both pamphlets (as well as their texts), suggests, "It is interesting to note that with the publication of these two privately printed books began a change in Watson's fortunes and from then on he concentrated on his poetry . . ." Halliwell B83.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Grey wrappers, printed paper label. Upper cover very slightly marked. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the printer "printer's proof copy". Wildean drawing-room conversation about Aubrey Beardsley's Yellow Book art; first performed at the Beardsley conference at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 7 November 1998, with the author as Cyril and William Sieghart (founder of the Forward Prizes for Poetry) as Vyvyan. Matthew Sturgis, all-round man of letters and football correspondent, husband of the galleriste and grande dame of Australian cultural affairs in London, Rebecca Hossack, had that year published his Aubrey Beardsley: a biography. Cyril: "The sense of 'wickedness' that you detect in Beardsley's art isn't the result of his subject matter, it's the result of his vision. Beardsley can see the corruption in a flower or a milkmaid - as plainly as he can see it in a harlot. And he can make his line distinct with that knowledge. That is the mark of his genius and his originality. If you gave him a daisy to draw he would show you a fleur-du-mal . . ." Halliwell B106.

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Single green card sheet, folded. Edition limited to 120 copies, "of which fifty are reserved for the author . . . printed by the Tragara Press as a Christmas greeting for friends of the Enitharmon Press", this copy inscribed by the author to the poet and publisher Robin Robertson, "To Robin at Christmas with Love and admiration for your poems, Jeremy". Thirty-six line poem - "A paintbox or a child's palette / creates that watery blue or grey . . .". Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Blue patterned wrappers, printed paper spine-label. Edition limited to 110 numbered copies. With printer's corrected page proofs of the same, 39 leaves, printed rectos only, three copies of the title-page (on two different papers), all other pages present except title-page verso (copyright page) and limitation page, with Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections on three pages, Gissing's text paginated in pencil only. The author started on "A Freak of Nature" in 1894, completing it in 1895 for a new periodical, The London Magazine, but waited until 1899 to see it published in the new Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine - as "Mr. Brogden, City Clerk". Pierre Coustillas, in reproducing Gissing's manuscript text, argues that the changes introduced by the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial amounted to "an artistic betrayal of the original".

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Single sheet, folded. "We are pleased to print this Ballad for the first time . . . This card is inserted into the Durtro edition of the Collected Poems of S. E. Stenbock [The Collected Poems of Eric, Count Stenbock, edited by David Tibet, 2001, 400 copies printed]" - "If I meant your wretch'd bill to pay / Twice two will never make eleven / Do you suppose I should ever run away / 'Tis a long way to run from Hell to Heaven . . .".

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Single sheet, printer's proof, with his manuscript alteration. Corners a little creased. Tibet seeks to set the record straight, after being alerted by a reader, Mark Valentine, and the printer of the short story himself, Alan Anderson, to mistakes in Tibet's "Afterword". "I was being characteristically uncharitable," he writes, "and I am obliged (and somewhat ashamed) to print here what must be the explanation, which was sent to me by both Alan Anderson and Mark Valentine in separate communications . . ." The postscript was included in all copies of the edition thereafter.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Single sheet. A little marked at the edges. Alan Anderson s trial title-page for a successor to the author's The Rare Book Game (1985), More of the Rare Book Game (1988) and Last of the Rare Book Game (1990). No such title was published. Instead followed A Life in Catalogues (1994).

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Single sheet of cream card, once folded. 'All that has follied with the sun is done: / Today has been of autumn fires and where / Cordage of old blossomers in fine rage / Thrums . . .".

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Café-au-lait wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 110 numbered copies, this copy with the printer's page proofs, 33 leaves, printed rectos only, all pages present except half-title, title-page verso (copyright page) and limitation page; three pages bearing Alan Anderson's careful manuscript corrections.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 37pp. Printed at the Tragara Press in a limited numbered edition of 60 copies. This is copy #9. Purple card wrap-around covers with title plate tipped to front cover. Hint of shelf wear to tip of top and tail of spine and top cover edges. Otherwise in fine condition. Untrimmed lower page edges. Edited with notes by Alan Anderson. No inscriptions. Appears unread.

[Poetry] PRIVATE PRINTING, only 100 copies. Slim pamphlet (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] 37 [5]. With a wood engraving by Angela Lemaire. Softcovers with the purple typographic wraps. Bound with thread. Internally bright and clean. Sunning to spine. Large grey mark to rear panel. Very good. The seven poems featured in this printing are: Cistercians, Woodspring Priory, Infinite Canon at Toledo, After Trinity, Stir-Up Sunday, Christmas Day, and Arabia.

No Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. Printer's corrected proofs. 92 leaves, printed on cream Abbey Mills, rectos only, one leaf lacking (Richard Jefferies' contribution), but with two copies of the half-title; with the printer's manuscript corrections on nine pages, and two copies of the printer's prospectus, single sheets, folded (one with the words "Card slip-case" deleted). "A collection largely of agnostic writings," this advertises the book, "with extracts from 65 authors", Alyse Gregory claiming the prize with five extracts, followed by her husband Llewelyn Powys and Tolstoy with four each, then Logan Pearsall Smith and James Gould Cozzens with three, and Shakespeare, Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad and Edward Thomas with a brace apiece. "There is no truth" (Alyse Gregory); "There is no hope" (Richard Rumbold). "This selection seemed to me to focus on a grim side of George's outlook, not fully in character with the man I know," wrote David J. Holmes, publisher of Sims's The Rare Book Game and its successors. Anthony Rota was much dismayed by this grimness, its "unmitigated gloom and despondency, even despair (not so much agnosticism as nihilism)". "I have just completed a book for George Sims," wrote Alan Anderson to the Tragara Press collector Alex Bridge (5 October 1991). "It runs to 89 pages - much larger than I would normally tackle nowadays, but George is my oldest friend and I wanted to do it. I collected the copies from the binder yesterday - rather attractive in our usual restrained way . . .".

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 45pp. Printed on Gainsborough paper at the Tragara Press in a limited numbered edition of 50 copies. This is copy #39. Original olive green cloth covered boards. Unfortunately this copy lacks a spine label. Two tiny spots on front cloth and small dirt mark on back cover. Otherwise in fine condition. Edited with an Introduction by Alan Anderson. No inscriptions. Appears unread.

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. Single sheet, 383 x 208mm, cream handmade paper. "Fifteen copies printed at the Tragara Press" [for Thomas Davidson]. Forty-two-line poem by Thomas Nashe or Nash (1567-c1601): a pleasingly vertical printing. "Adieu! farewell earth's bliss! / This world uncertain is: / Fond are life's lustful joys, / Death proves them all but toys. / None from his darts can fly: / I am sick, I must die - / Lord, have mercy upon us! // Rich men, trust not in wealth, / Gold cannot buy you health; / Physic himself must fade; / All things to end are made; / The plague full swift goes by: / I am sick, I must die - / Lord, have mercy upon us!" Halliwell p.133: "printed on a variety of paper stock". Alan Anderson printed this text, in booklet form, as his third publication, in 1954.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Author's manuscript/typescript, 21pp. 8vo, with his numerous corrections and alterations throughout; printer's proofs, 19pp., printed rectos only, with Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections on five pages, and the Tragara Press-printed prospectus for the book, single sheet, slightly creased and with one small mark, printing on the verso the poem "Come deceptions of each kind". Wartime poems reprinted in the evening of the author's life by his "oldest friend", Alan Anderson of the Tragara Press; the bookseller George Sims had been the press's "first customer" in 1954. Sixteen Poems was published in an edition of 85 numbered and 15 lettered copies; its original title, evidently, was "Ten Poems", and the author intended an epigraph, L.P. Hartley's "The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there". First a poet, and quite widely published, George Sims (1923-1999) became an antiquarian bookseller and then a writer of well-received crime fiction. "Come deceptions of each kind: / Those of gulls who whirl through / Frail snowfall taste of / Sea's spiced breath upon my window, / Then ease themselves upon tumbling, / With senseless cry celebrating / This world's terror / Those of thin thrush, sick / With cold, balanced on bare stick, / Piping of neglected hedges thick / With rose and cream-lipped honeysuckle. / Old crows, thrown like scraps away / In this grey hour of day / Make your tuneless cry your only song, / Bring forth your unsteady young, / Come, deceptions of Springkind.".

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. The editor/printer's corrected page proofs: 43 leaves, loose in hand-lettered brown folder and printed rectos only, with Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections and alterations, some substantive, on 30 pages; lacking only p. [1] (half-title). The edition appeared finally in olive-green silk-covered boards and was limited to 50 numbered copies, printed on Gainsborough paper (though Anderson experimented with a proof copy on Abbey Mills, in olive-green wrappers). "Most of the letters in this selection were at one time in my possession. Unfortunately I am now unaware of the present whereabouts of some of them, and I regret I am therefore unable to make suitable acknowledgement" (introduction). Correspondents include Natalie Clifford Barney, "George Egerton", Frederick Evans, Wilfrid Meynell, John Cowper Powys, Leonard Smithers, A.J.A. Symons, Rachel Annand Taylor - and Seumas O'Sullivan, to whom Vincent O'Sullivan writes from Paris, 7 November 1930: "Today I saw in a dealer's window the MS. of a diary that Baudelaire kept in Brussels during the years 1864-65. It is amazingly interesting with projects of prefaces for his Petites poèmes en Prose among other notes. The astonishing thing is that it is being offered for only 350 francs - less than £2:10 . . . If you wish to send me a telegram I will tell the dealer to hold it for you . . ." Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was one of Alan Anderson's favourite writers, featuring frequently on the Tragara Press's list, first in 1956 with the short story In Quiet. Born in Dublin (his parents had settled in America but were both from County Cork), O'Sullivan was sent to school in England, at St Mary's, Oscott, where he was taught by Frederick Rolfe. He dropped out of Oxford to join the Yellow Book set and was a good friend to Oscar Wilde, of whom he leaves a revealing portrait in Aspects of Wilde (1938). "'We live into our fame,' W.B. Yeats said encouragingly to his young friend, the twenty-year-old Richard Aldington. The reverse was true of O'Sullivan," wrote Anderson's friend George Sims in "Some Uncollected Authors XV: Vincent O'Sullivan" (The Book Collector, Winter 1957). "From comparative success and fame when his early books appeared, he lived on obscurely for some forty years and died in lonely poverty.". Inscribed by Author(s).