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  1. JOYCE, James.

    Chamber Music.

    London, Jonathan Cape, [1953].

    Seventh printing.

    £50

  2. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Wyndham Lewis the Artist.

    From ‘Blast’ to Burlington House’ … London, Laidlaw & Laidlaw, [1939].

    First edition, first issue.

    £125

  3. MACNEICE, Louis.

    Out of the Picture. A Play in two Acts.

    London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1946].

    First edition, third impression.

    £25

  4. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Direadh I, II and III …

    [Stamperia Valdonega for] Frenich, Foss, Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974.

    First edition, no. 29 of 200 signed copies on Magnani paper.

    £175

  5. ELIOT, Thomas Stearns.

    Two typed letters, signed, and one secretarial letter, to the poet and broadcaster D. G. Bridson, on Faber...

    1952-7.

    In 1937 Geoffrey Bridson had mounted a radio production, with Eliot’s blessing, of The Waste Land – it ‘made quite remarkable radio, but I have to confess that Eliot did not share my own enthusiasm for the result’ (Prospero and Ariel), particularly after cuts were made to the recording....

    £1500

  6. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Ezra Pound, un saggio e tre disegni.

    Milan, all’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1958.

    First edition, an hors serie copy (from numbered edition of 1000), a translation by Pound’s daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, of an essay that first appeared in Pound’s 65th birthday festschrift in 1950; this translation was published in part ‘to celebrate Ezra Pound’s return to Italy’.

    £75

  7. POUND, Ezra, and D.G. BRIDSON.

    ‘Four Steps’ by Ezra Pound. Produced by D. G. Bridson.

    [7 May 1958].

    Typescript of the broadcast of ‘Four Steps’, as recorded by Bridson in Washington in 1956, aired on the evening of Pound’s release from St Elizabeth’s Hospital in 1958, along with Bridson’s introductory statement, explaining the genesis of the recording.

    £450

  8. POUND, Ezra, and Giovanni GIUDICI, translator.

    H.S. Mauberley, tradotto di Giovanni Giudici con tre disegni inedita...

    Milan, all’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1959.

    First edition, no. 141 of 1000 copies, a parallel-text Italian translation of Pound’s modernist masterpiece Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920).

    £100

  9. POUND, Ezra.

    Cantos 110–116 …

    printed & published by the Fuck You / press at a secret location in the lower east side, New York City, USA, 1967.

    Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly), no. 261 of 300 copies. The contents are extracts and include a number of apparently unidentified lines; this piracy forced the publication of Drafts and Fragment of Cantos CX–CXVII (1969).

    £150

  10. WATSON, Sheila.

    ‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press’, a special issue of artscanada, November 1967, issue...

    The recordings included are three sections from One-Way Song, made at Harvard in 1940 alongside his lecture, and ‘Marshall McLuhan recalls Lewis’.

    £50

  11. POUND, Ezra, and Noel STOCK, translators.

    Love Poems of ancient Egypt.

    [New York, New Directions, 1962].

    First edition.

    £75

  12. LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.

    Christmas card to the Bridsons.

    [1950s].

    ‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey with Christmas love from Froanna + Wyndham …’

    £50

  13. MAKERETI (Maggie PAPAKURA).

    The old-time Maori … Collected and edited with a Biography by T.K. Penniman …

    London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938.

    First edition, scarce, with a gift inscription: ‘To D.G. Bridson, In sincere appreciation of his kindness and trustfulness in lending me – a stranger – the script of his fascinating broadcast on the Maoris. W.S. Wrestier[?]’.

    £125

  14. POUND, Ezra.

    Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …

    [London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].

    Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound on behalf of her husband to ‘J[oyce] + G[eoffrey] Bridson. DP for EP / Sept 1961. Brunnenburg’.

    £250

  15. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Letters … Edited by W.K. Rose.

    London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1963].

    First edition. Letters to Bridson appear on pp. 540 and 545.

    £50

  16. MACDIARMID, Hugh, and Valda TREVLYN GRIEVE.

    Three Christmas cards, signed from Christopher and Valda, or Valda alone, undated.

    MACDIARMID, Hugh and Valda TREVLYN GRIEVE.

    The two cards signed from both Christopher and Valda (but in her hand) carry generic messages, the third evidently sent after Christopher’s death, laments ‘I don’t seem to get anything done. Will need to snap out of it – I’ve got all Christopher’s papers sorted – most have gone to Edin...

    £100

  17. SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.

    Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.

    [London, Penguin, 1970.]

    First edition.

    £30

  18. JOYCE, James.

    Pomes Penyeach.

    London, Faber & Faber, [1952].

    Sixth Faber printing.

    £40