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London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 [First published in 1989 by Faber and Faber Limited]. 364 pages with indexes, editor's note and introduction. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased; original dustjacket not price clipped; dustjacket's edges are rubbed. Edges of the pages have tanned through age. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Anthology of poetry and prose on illness divided into sections (Generalities; Illnesses, Greater and Lesser; Eyes, Ears and Teeth; Doctors and Cures; Hospitals and Patients; Philosophers and Kings; Intellectual and Spiritual Frets; Strange Complaints, Mishaps, Embarrassments; Imaginary, Feigned, Psychological; Melancholy and Love Sickness; Manias, Phobias, Fantasies, Fears; Breakdown and Madness; Young and Old; Animals; Invalids and Convalescents; Short and Sharp). Some of the writers included are: Virginia Woolf, Proust, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Susan Sontag, Brecht. Many of the pieces are light-hearted, even comical - it will amuse,… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1982 [First published in this collection 1980. Reprinted in paperback 1982.] This edition is now out of print. 412 pages with index. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased. Name of previous owner in blue ink on inside cover at top left hand corner. Otherwise no other markings, clean text pages. This collection was put together by the author. Ewart says in the Introduction "This collection is a collection - and not a selection - of my poems. This is not because I consider them all equally good but because I have aimed at completeness." Philip Larkin writing in Quarto said "The most remarkable phenomenon in the English poetic scene during the last ten years has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart". Ewart (1916-1995) was a prolific British poet known for his witty and sometimes unsettling treatments of unlikely subjects. He uses the rhythms and recurrent obsessions of demotic forms - limericks in particular -… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1989 125 pages. Cover design by Salim Patell incorporating a painting by Michael Leonard on front cover; back cover author's photograph by Julian Ewart. Some shelf and age wear especially to edges of cover which are slightly bumped; spine creased; some small black smudges on back cover at top and bottom. No internal markings, clean text pages.