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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Caliph’s Design. Architects! Where is your Vortex?
London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.
First edition, a pamphlet of art criticism, particularly an attack on ugly modern architecture; there is (rare) praise for Cézanne and Picasso.
£400
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DYMENT, Clifford.
Poems 1935–1948.
London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, [1949].
First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey and Joyce, with best wishes plus, from Clifford Dyment and Marcella. October 1950’.
£200
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WEST, Nathanael.
Miss Lonelyhearts … with an Introduction by Alan Ross.
London, The Grey Walls Press, [1949].
First UK edition, with a new introduction by Ross. First published in 1933, this ‘acerbic’ black comedy set in New York during the Depression, was adapted and produced for radio by Bridson, broadcast on 25 May 1960, with Sam Wanamaker in the lead role, a male journalist writing an advice column under...
£125
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[POUND, Ezra.]
Agenda. Twenty-first Anniversary Ezra Pound Special Issue.
London, Agenda Editions, 1980.
Reprinting a number of works by Pound alongside criticism. Bridson’s article ‘Italian Painting in the Cantos’, one of his last publications, appears on pp. 210-217.
£75
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
‘A note on Michael Ayrton’ in Spectrum Volume 1, Number 2. Spring-Summer, 1957.
Santa Barbara, University of California, 1957.
Printing the forthcoming foreword to Golden Sections, along with Ayrton’s ‘The Act of Drawing’, and a ‘Homage to Wyndham Lewis’ by Eliot, Bridson and Ayrton.
£50
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[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]
Deed granting land to the hospice.
Metz, 5 May 1464.
A significant document recording the grant of agricultural land in 1464 to the Hospice of Saint-Nicolas, the oldest hospital in Metz, in northeast France, issued during the reign of Louis XI and in the final year of the papacy of Pius II.
£450
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Snooty Baronet.
London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1932.
First edition, first issue binding, the first of three books Lewis published with Cassell, and the first of his novels not to find an American publisher.
£400
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RACHEWILTZ, Boris de.
L’Elemento magico in Ezra Pound.
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1965.
First edition, no. 182 of 1000 copies, an essay by Pound’s son-in-law published on the occasion of Pound’s eightieth birthday.
£150
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SEMMLER, Clement.
Kenneth Slessor.
[London,] British Council, [1969].
Second edition (first 1966), with updates to the bibliography; inscribed ‘For D.G. Bridson. Clem Semmler, Sydney, 21. 10. 71’.
£45
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MACLEISH, Archibald.
Conquistador.
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
First edition, signed ‘Archibald MacLeish / Conway, Mass’. This long poem won MacLeish his first of three Pulitzer prizes.
£300
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SEMMLER, Clement.
The Art of Brian James and other Essays on Australian Literature …
[St Lucia,] University of Queensland Press, [1972].
First edition, inscribed ‘For Joyce & Geoffrey – a memento of your welcome visit again to Sydney / Clem / Jan. 1973’.
£75
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GIOVIO, Paolo.
Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus apposita. Quae in musaeo Ioviano Comi spectantur. Addita in calce...
Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546.
First edition of Giovio’s biographies of illustrious men, with several marginal corrections, remarks, and comments by a contemporary reader, whose knowledge of biographies of the past encompassed several authors, including Erasmus.
£3000
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit to the Sous).
London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].
First edition, scarce in the dust-jacket, ‘an account of his travels which Lewis had written after a holiday with his wife in French Morocco and the Spanish Sahara. The book … emerged as one of the liveliest travel-books of the time. Like all of Lewis’s writing, it was quirky and opinionated,...
£500
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PRINCE, F[rank].
T[empleton]. Soldiers Bathing and other Poems.
London, The Fortune Press, [1954].
First edition, Prince’s second collection, inscribed ‘with good wishes from the author, F. T. Prince. 23 April, 1954.’
£200
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POWYS, John Cowper.
A Glastonbury Romance.
London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1933].
First edition of Powys’s monumental sixth novel. Though we cannot trace a direct link between Powys and Bridson, Bridson certainly knew Powys’s friend James Hanley - they worked together for the BBC during the war. The centrality of the Grail legends to A Glastonbury Romance would...
£175
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
One-Way Song. With a Foreword by T. S. Eliot.
London, Methuen, [1960].
Second edition, ostensibly an unaltered reprint of the first edition of 1933, but in fact with some changes. Eliot’s foreword is new to this edition. Bridson had reviewed the original edition uncharitably as ‘versified pamphleteering’ in Poetry XLV: 3 (Dec 1934), accusing it of being a satirical...
£150
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PRINCE, F[rank].
T[empleton].
Poems. London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1938].
First edition of the first collection by the South African-born Prince. Prince had contributed several poems to Eliot’s Criterion in the mid-30s.
£180
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced by Walter Allen.
London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].
Second (but first published) edition, regular copy.
£50