The Clouded Glass

Warwick: Greville Press, 1984. 1st edition in soft cover format in the Greville Press Pamphlets series limited to 100 copies, 8vo, 18pp, card covers; VG+ Copy; presentation copy from the publisher, inscription on title page reads: For Ron ever Tony. (In 1975 Harold Pinter had accepted an invitation from Anthony Astbury a poetry-loving teacher at a private school in Warwick, to give a reading of his own work at the Warwick Gallery. The evening was not only a big success. The two men discovered they shared similar tastes in poetry, and when Astbury and another friend, Geoffrey Godbert, decided to set up a small publishing imprint called the Greville Press, Pinter gave it his enthusiastic support. Indeed, the Press was launched with an event at the Purcell Room in September 1979 when George Barker, William Empson, David Gascoyne, W S. Graham, John Heath-Stubbs and John Wain all read from their work. Pinter chaired and compered the evening; and over the years he has devoted a good deal of time, energy and money to the Greville Press. He co-edited two anthologies -100 Poems by 100 Poets and 99 Poems in Translation - formally joined the board in 1987 and privately financed some twenty volumes of poetry, as well as paying for sundry launch parties.. Signed by Publisher. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.