Search Results: Authors starting with E from Neil Pearson Rare Books

Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press, 1983. 8vo, pp. 187. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper. A little spotting to top edge, otherwise a fine, unread copy. First edition. With an introduction by Ned Thomas. A fine copy.

Paris: Boris Daew, 1939. 8vo pamphlet, pp. 20. Original wrappers. Contents age-toned, slight discoloration to leading edge, not affecting text. First edition. No. 1. All published. Short-lived review with a distinguished cast list: Paul Eluard, Franz Kafka, Jean Carrive, Georges Hugnet, Fernand Marc, Suzette Ramon and Christian Senechal. Well preserved example of a fragile publication.

London: Drummond, 1933-1939. 34 issues in 32. Small 8vo. Stiff paper wrappers. Red wraparound band to Auden double issue (26-27), perforated subscription forms to many numbers. Staples rusted, closed tear at spine of Issue 1, age-toning consistent with vintage. A near fine set. First edition. A COMPLETE RUN OF THIS HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL PERIODICAL. Geoffrey Grigson was just twenty-seven when he founded the bi-monthly New Verse, which for most of the 1930s remained the only British literary publication devoted solely to poetry. Grigson insisted on high literary standards from his contributors, but once these were met anyone was allowed in; New Verse was important because it was the house journal of no one faction. One of the most important contributors was W.H. Auden: the early issues helped launch him, later ones defended him. (The Auden double issue in this set retains its rare wraparound band). The combative Grigson was happy to criticise those he published, seeing such interventions as a… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1969. 8vo, pp. 231. Original purple boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Fine in a very good dustwrapper, some edgewear and with a little marking to rear panel. Illustrated by Lou Myers. First edition.

London: Poetry Book Society, 1957. Small 8vo pamphlet, 12 unpaginated pp. Some sunning to leading edge of front wrapper. First edition. Contributors include W.H. Auden, Laurie Lee, David Jones, Frances Cornford and Ted Hughes.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, N.d. [1979]. Large 8vo, pp. 231. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt on spine. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, slight darkening to top edge and with a little wear to spine ends. 32 pp. photographic plates. First edition, INSCRIBED BY LORD ZUCKERMAN: 'Inscribed for Bob Holness / for / Bob Holness / by / Solly Zuckerman. Solly Zuckerman [1904-1993] began his scientific career at the London Zoological Society in 1928; when he inscribed this book in 1979 he was the Society's President. In between he was a war hero, working on myriad research projects, designing the Zuckerman helmet for the protection of civilians, and devising the plan which would disrupt German supply lines prior to the Normandy landings.

Idaho: Caxton, 1936. 8vo, pp. 144. Original grey boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just a little wear at folds and spine ends. First edition. Murrell Edmunds (1898-1981) was from a distinguished Southern family, and abandoned a legal career to become a writer. A native of Virginia, his outspoken opposition to racial segregation made him unpopular in Lynchburg (the clue may be in the name), and he settled in the more cosmopolitan New Orleans. Edmunds' commitment to equality covered all social groups, as this deeply weird novel-cum-parable demonstrates. A very nice copy in the dustwrapper (on the reverse of which is printed the Caxton list: an intriguing mix of obscure poets and New West Americana).

New York: Arcadia House, 1955. 8vo, pp. 221. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Publisher's device in black to front panel. Illustrated dust jacket. Slight wear to spine ends, offsetting to endpapers, but a near fine copy in a dust jacket with extensive mouse-nibbling to flap folds, and some light wear to spine ends. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: '8/17/55 For Phil Reichert, Thanks! Al Eichler'. HUBIN, p. 134

London: Faber, 1941. 8vo, pp. 15. Original pale blue stiff paper wrappers. Top edge of front panel a little sunned, wrappers a little marked, but a very good copy. First edition, first issue, printed on Adelphi-watermarked paper. Gallup A39a

New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 4to, pp. 230. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine. A fine copy. 127 b&w photographs. First edition. A heavily (and beautifully) illustrated history of homoerotic photography, from the 1850s to the 1990s. A fine, unread, utterly gorgeous example.