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In both that collection and Lolly Willowes she “works toward another kind of ‘third way’, using tightly-structured stanzas and rhythms, as of the Georgian poets, to articulate very unconventional thought and feeling” (Gibbons, p. 14). This copy is from the library of the English-born Canadian writer John Metcalf, with his ownership signature to the first blank. Loosely inserted is the publisher’s four-page advertisement pamphlet for the third impression of the work, featuring several glowing reviews. Octavo. Original black and blue marbled cloth, paper label to spine, the spare label tipped-in to rear, lower edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine very gently cocked, cloth bright, lower edge faded, offsetting from advertisement pamphlet to p. 49, else clean and bright. A near-fine copy, in like jacket, not price-clipped, short nicks and creasing to top edge, else sharp. ¶ Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 1660; Wessells 19, pp. 84–7. Per Faxneld, “Spinster Satanism”, The Summoning Issue , 2021; Reginald Gibbons, “Elsewhere”, The American Poetry Review , vol. 39, no. 4, 2010; Claire Harman, Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography , 2015; Vike Martina Plock & Alex Murray, “Re-Visiting Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Literature Compass, Special Issue: Sylvia Townsend Warner , December 2014. £3,000 [153196] 92 WEST, Rebecca. The Judge. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1922] a young suffragette struggles to live freely First edition, first impression, in the scarce and appealingly illustrated jacket, of the author’s follow up to her debut Return of the Soldier . The Judge is a romance of a young suffragette Ellen Melville, struggling to live freely in spite of her own beauty: “her body would imprison her in soft places. She would be allowed no adventures other than love, no achievements other than birth”. West (1892–1983) had started her career as a columnist for the suffragist weekly The Freewoman .
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine black. With dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine a little faded, faint foxing to extremities, tips lightly bumped. An excellent, bright copy in the scarce jacket with just a little light wear and nicks to extremities. £2,250 [105427] 93 WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Manikin Number Two. Go Go. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923 Including “The Red Wheelbarrow” First edition of this scarce collection of Imagist poetry, including “The Red Wheelbarrow”, one of the most influential masterpieces of modern American poetry. Its inclusion in Monroe Wheeler’s Manikin series marks its first publication in the United States, preceded only by its inclusion in the exceedingly scarce collection Spring and All , a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse poetry and prose, published in Paris earlier in the same year in an edition of 300 copies only. Manikin Number Two had half the print run of Spring and All , with only 150 copies printed, and is scarce today. Spring and All had almost no circulation on the continent, and copies entering America were stopped at customs. Williams himself later said of the first publication, “Nobody ever saw it”, and a mere handful of copies remain in circulation today. Monroe Wheeler’s Manikin collection of Williams’s poetry includes nine poems previously published in Spring and All , plus a new poem, “The Hermaphroditic Telephones”. Small octavo. Original grey card wrappers sewn at the fold, titles and illustration to front in blue. A fine copy. £850 [150245]
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