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[Vancouver: Georgia Straight, 1970]. First edition.. 12pp. Newspaper format. Twice folded, clean and near fine, some wear to folds. Issued as "Writing 6". Illustrated. From the colophon on the final page: "The poems here printed were chosen by Basil Bunting and Peter Quartermain. .... "Stones trip Coquet burn" appears for the first time .... The interview, "Basil Bunting Talks About Briggflatts" is copyright 1970 .... This issue of Writing was edited for Stan Persky and Dennis Wheeler by Peter Quartermain." An illustration on the final page contains an announcement for Bunting reading BRIGGFLATTS at UBC on Friday November 20. Richard Burton, in his biographical work: "A Strong Song Tows Us: The life of Basil Bunting", quotes Charles (Mike) Doyle on the subject of the UBC reading: "Some months ago he gave a reading at U.B.C., Vancouver, and the noted American poets Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan flew from San Francisco specifically to attend the reading. An audience of about 500 gave Bunting a… Read More

cat40a. Boston: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall/NY: Derby/Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. First American edition. Original blind stamped red cloth, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Yellow end papers. An attractive 19th century Vermont library label on inner front cover, owner's signature on the title dated 1855, a bit of wear to the base of the spine, some pages yellowing, but in general a very bright, attractive, nearly fine copy, unusually nice for a book from this period. The British first edition was published in 1832. Klosterheim is a gothic novel which takes place in Swabia during the 30 Years' War. It appeared in abridged form in THE EERIE BOOK (Margaret Armour - ed. 1898) as "The Masque".

London: Noel Douglas, [1927]. . Square 8vo. Cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece in color, reproducing a miniature of De Quincey from 1803. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down, a little soiling of buckram at fore-edge, inner hinge somewhat loose at title; a clean very good copy. Limited to 1500 numbered copies.

[San Francisco]: Colt Press, (1945). Patterned boards, printed paper spine label. Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated title page and numerous illustrations, one folding. Issued as Number Three of The Colt Press Series of "California Classics". A fine copy in the plain green dust jacket, which is quite faded and has a few tears. An essay first printed in 1852.