Serious Concerns. Poems. (SIGNED) by WENDY COPE - 1992

David Godine, Boston, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, the deluxe issue of 250 numbered copies, printed in Verona under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig at the Stameria Valdonega (this being #17). Tall 4to. Cloth-backed marbled boards, very slightly bumped at the tips of two corners. A near fine copy in matching marbled slipcase, which is slightly chafed in places. No dust wrapper, as issued..

Elkin Mathews, London, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 75pp. Patterned boards featuring a handsome design by Laurence Binyon, slightly water-stained at the top edges and worn at the backstrip ends. Front endpaper hinge tender and one section joint cracked. Some slight fox-spotting and the endpapers browned. A good copy. Also includes contributions by 'Anodos' [i.e. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge] (eleven poems), Laurence Binyon (his poems 'The Invocation of Venus' and 'The Willow') Selwyn Image (his poem 'The Truants' Holiday'), Arthur Romney Green (his poems 'Frederika' and 'A Sonnet'), Manmohan Ghose (his poems 'Sonnet', 'Elegy' and 'The Lover and the Painter'), Reginald Balfour (two poems and two translations), and E.L. (four poems)..

Fantasy Press, Oxford, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, second issue (incorporating a single minor textual correction to the poem 'Tamer and Hawk' a 't' added to the end of 'though' in the first line). Slim 8vo. 44pp. Yellow cloth lettered and ruled in red at the upper board. Cloth a little marked and handled. Endpapers really quite browned, yet otherwise extremely fresh internally. Twenty-five poems, the author's first substantial book (and the first hardcover publication issued by the Fantasy Press). The first and second states comprised only 305 copies in total and can be differentiated only by the textual correction (the publisher Oscar Mellor believed the two states could be identified by the slightly different shade of yellow cloth they were bound in, but Gunn's bibliographer Jack Hagstrom has suggested that this is probably not the case). No dust wrapper, as issued..

Fulcrum Press, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, of one 774 copies printed on Glastonbury pure white antique laid paper by the Eden & Finsbury Press and bound in boards (out of a total edition of 1,000 copies, the remainder being cloth-bound). 4to. 77pp. Stiff card boards lettered in black at the spine and in holograph at the upper board (the lettering designed by Richard Hamilton). A trace of darkening to the board edges. Very good indeed in the original unprinted acetate protector. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Sixty-nine poems, all appearing here in bookform for the first time in the UK..

Faber, London, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's uncommon fourth collection of verse. Slim 8vo. 70pp. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly dust marked and with a small area of spotting to the front pastedown and endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little darkened to several edges and with a touch of spotting to the rear panel and a centimetre or so of loss to the head of the spine panel and one or two other tiny fractions of loss to extremities. Publisher's compliments slip laid-in stating "With Compliments of the author" (the first two words printed, the final three typed). Thirty-one poems. 1,200 copies were printed..

David Godine, Boston, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, the deluxe issue of 250 numbered copies, printed in Verona under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig at the Stameria Valdonega (this being #17). Tall 4to. Cloth-backed marbled boards, very slightly bumped at the tips of two corners. A near fine copy in matching marbled slipcase, which is slightly chafed in places. No dust wrapper, as issued..

Elkin Mathews, London, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 75pp. Patterned boards featuring a handsome design by Laurence Binyon, slightly water-stained at the top edges and worn at the backstrip ends. Front endpaper hinge tender and one section joint cracked. Some slight fox-spotting and the endpapers browned. A good copy. Also includes contributions by 'Anodos' [i.e. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge] (eleven poems), Laurence Binyon (his poems 'The Invocation of Venus' and 'The Willow') Selwyn Image (his poem 'The Truants' Holiday'), Arthur Romney Green (his poems 'Frederika' and 'A Sonnet'), Manmohan Ghose (his poems 'Sonnet', 'Elegy' and 'The Lover and the Painter'), Reginald Balfour (two poems and two translations), and E.L. (four poems)..

Martin Secker, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 81pp. 'Cobble-stone' decorated paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. A strip of light partial browned in the free endpapers and some spotting throughout. A tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown. A nice bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, slightly dust marked and tanned, and chipped at the spine panel ends with a little loss. Graves' fifth book, forty-six poems, dedicated to his wife Nancy Nicholson. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A5.

Winchester School of Art Press, [1984?]. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to fifty numbered copies (this being #19). A suite of ten loose folding sheets of 250gsm BFK Rives paper, with a poem to each verso and an etching to the adjacent recto, each signed by the artist, and housed in the original folding cloth-covered and blind-lettered portfolio with linen ties. A hint of browning and spotting to the extreme edges of several sheets, else a fine copy of a scarce and very elegant production, which includes signed etchings by noted Irish-Scots artist and Aosdána member William Crozier, and print maker Elaine Shemilt, plus Frances Caynes, Lorraine Dabin, Camilla Edwards, Richard Harvey, James Heward, Sarah James, Ruth O Dell and Andrew Smith. The poets contributing are Fleur Adcock, Alan Brownjohn, Keven Crossley-Holland, Vicki Feaver, Jeremy Hooker, Glyn Hughes, John Mole, Andrew Motion, Judith Nutter and Ted Walker..

Fulcrum Press, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, of one 774 copies printed on Glastonbury pure white antique laid paper by the Eden & Finsbury Press and bound in boards (out of a total edition of 1,000 copies, the remainder being cloth-bound). 4to. 77pp. Stiff card boards lettered in black at the spine and in holograph at the upper board (the lettering designed by Richard Hamilton). A trace of darkening to the board edges. Very good indeed in the original unprinted acetate protector. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Sixty-nine poems, all appearing here in bookform for the first time in the UK..