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BUNTING, Basil. Briggflatts. London: Goliard Press for Fulcrum Press, 1966. 4° (320 x 250mm). Title printed in red and black. Illustrations and decorative borders after Barry Hall and Nick Strausfeld printed in red and black. Original cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, green dustwrapper printed in red and black (dustwrapper very lightly creased). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 100 BOUND IN CLOTH. Guedalla A6b.
BUNTING, B. A Note on Briggflatts. Edited by Richard Caddell. Durham: Riverrun for Basil Bunting Poetry Archive, 1989. 8° (230 x 176mm). Original wrappers, dustwrapper. Provenance: Carl Rakosi (b.1903, ownership inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES, THIS 119 OF 300 'GIFT' COPIES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF RAKOSI, the American objectivist poet.
BUNTING, B. Poems: 1950. Preface by Dallam Flynn. Galveston, TX: The Cleaners' Press, [1950]. 8° (228 x 155mm). (Very light marginal browning.) Original brown boards, letterpress labels to upper board and spine, dust-wrapper with price '$1.50' (dust-wrapper lightly marked and creased with small tears at edges and spine faded). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Guedalla A2.
BUNTING, B. Poems: 1950. Preface by Dallam Flynn. New York: Kasper & Horton, [?1951]. 8° (228 x 153mm). (Light marginal browning.) Original printed second issue wrappers pasted over first issue wrappers, with Kasper & Horton imprint on spine, lower wrapper with dropped letters in l.4 reading 'eigh en' but 'translated' correctly set in l.23, Kasper & Horton's address obscured and ink-stamped Washington address below (wrappers a little faded on spine and outer edges, a few marks). Provenance: occasional pencilled notes. FIRST EDITION, second issue with Kasper & Horton imprint but without copyright notice on verso of title. Guedalla A2.
BUNTING, B. Poems: 1950. Preface by Dallam Flynn. New York: Kasper & Horton, [?1951]. 8° (228 x 155mm). (Very light marginal browning.) Original printed [?third] issue wrappers pasted over first issue wrappers, with Kasper & Horton imprint on spine, lower wrapper with 'eighteen' correctly set in l.4 but first letter of 'translated' dropped in l.23 (spine somewhat faded, some marking). Provenance: occasional pencilled annotations. FIRST EDITION, [?]third issue, with Kasper & Horton imprint but with 'COPYRIGHT 1950 BY BASIL BUNTING' on verso of title. Guedalla A2. FIRST EDITIONS IN THREE STATES OF BUNTING'S SECOND BOOK. Poems: 1950 was originally published by Dallam Flynn (or Simpson), a fervent proponent of Ezra Pound; Guedalla comments that 'it is said that [Flynn] compiled the book at Pound's instigation'. The sheets of the first issue were then acquired by Kasper & Horton, who re-issued the work with new wrappers bearing their imprint; there appear to be two states of this issue which are not distinguished by Guedalla--one without and one with the copyright notice on the verso of the title, and the variations in the text on the lower wrapper noted above. (5)
BUNTING, B. A Note on Briggflatts. Edited by Richard Caddell. Durham: Riverrun for Basil Bunting Poetry Archive, 1989. 8° (230 x 176mm). Original wrappers, dustwrapper. Provenance: Carl Rakosi (b.1903, ownership inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES, THIS 119 OF 300 'GIFT' COPIES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF RAKOSI, the American objectivist poet.
BUNTING, B. Poems: 1950. Preface by Dallam Flynn. Galveston, TX: The Cleaners' Press, [1950]. 8° (228 x 155mm). (Very light marginal browning.) Original brown boards, letterpress labels to upper board and spine, dust-wrapper with price '$1.50' (dust-wrapper lightly marked and creased with small tears at edges and spine faded). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Guedalla A2.
BUNTING, B. Poems: 1950. Preface by Dallam Flynn. New York: Kasper & Horton, [?1951]. 8° (228 x 153mm). (Light marginal browning.) Original printed second issue wrappers pasted over first issue wrappers, with Kasper & Horton imprint on spine, lower wrapper with dropped letters in l.4 reading 'eigh en' but 'translated' correctly set in l.23, Kasper & Horton's address obscured and ink-stamped Washington address below (wrappers a little faded on spine and outer edges, a few marks). Provenance: occasional pencilled notes. FIRST EDITION, second issue with Kasper & Horton imprint but without copyright notice on verso of title. Guedalla A2.
BUNTING, B. Poems: 1950. Preface by Dallam Flynn. New York: Kasper & Horton, [?1951]. 8° (228 x 155mm). (Very light marginal browning.) Original printed [?third] issue wrappers pasted over first issue wrappers, with Kasper & Horton imprint on spine, lower wrapper with 'eighteen' correctly set in l.4 but first letter of 'translated' dropped in l.23 (spine somewhat faded, some marking). Provenance: occasional pencilled annotations. FIRST EDITION, [?]third issue, with Kasper & Horton imprint but with 'COPYRIGHT 1950 BY BASIL BUNTING' on verso of title. Guedalla A2. FIRST EDITIONS IN THREE STATES OF BUNTING'S SECOND BOOK. Poems: 1950 was originally published by Dallam Flynn (or Simpson), a fervent proponent of Ezra Pound; Guedalla comments that 'it is said that [Flynn] compiled the book at Pound's instigation'. The sheets of the first issue were then acquired by Kasper & Horton, who re-issued the work with new wrappers bearing their imprint; there appear to be two states of this issue which are not distinguished by Guedalla--one without and one with the copyright notice on the verso of the title, and the variations in the text on the lower wrapper noted above. (5)
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