TIMED ONLINE RARE BOOK SALE 24th April 2024

79 73 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 406. Murray (Les) Collected Poems, (Carcanet 1991) First Edn., signed v.g. in cloth dust wrapper. Inscribed "For Philip and Vivien, with warm best wishes / Les Murray,"; New Selected Poems, (Duffy & Snellgrove 1998) First Edn., signed, v.g. in pictorial wrappers. Inscribed "for Philip / with best wishes / Les Murray,"; The Boys who Stole the Funeral, (Duffy & Snellgrove 1982) rep. v.g. i pictorial wrappers. Inscribed " for Philip and Vivien in Sligo / with cheers from all the Boys," A Working Forest, (Duffy & Snellgrove 1997) First Edn., v.g. in wrappers. Inscribed " for my clansman Philip and my compatriot Vivien, with warm regards / Les Murray," inscribed " for Phil and Vivien in Sligo / with cheers from Fred & Les,"; Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse, (Carcanet 1998) First UK Edn, v.g. in pictorial wrappers (no HB of Australian First issued). Author's third collection of Prose pieces. Inscribed " for Phil and Vivien on a sunny day in Sligo / Les Murray, " Subhuman Redneck Poems, (FSG 1997) First US Edn. Signed, v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper; Conscious & Verbal, (Angus & Robertson, 1999) First Edn., signed, v.g. in wrappers (no HB issued). Inscribed " for Phil and Vivien with best wishes / Les Murray." (9) €80-€130 407. de Bernieres (Louis) First Editions, signed. A Partisan's Daughter, (Harvill Secker, 2008) v.g.; Red Dog, First Edn, (Secker 2001) signed dated 1998 (sic), on adhesive label to hf. title; Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World, (Vintage 2001), signed, dated 1998 (sic) on adhesive label to hf. title; A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil, (Belmont Press, 1999). Eileen Hogan, Ltd Edn 58/150, bound with cloth spine, signed, by author and illustrator, beautiful copy, top edge dusty; Labels, (First Edn. One Horse Press, 1993, Ltd. 99/2000), signed dated 1993, in original orange wrap- around band. Labels, (rep, One Horse Press, 1997) signed, dated 1998 on adhesive label to hf title; Gunter Weber's Confession, (Tartarus Press, 2001), Ltd. Edn. 110/300. In original red French wrappers beautiful copy, top edge dusty. (7) €200-€300 408. Hughes (Ted) Wodwo, (Faber, 1967). First Edn., signed. v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper. Slightly bumped. Dust wrapper in protective cover is unclipped, is toned, rubbed at edges small water stain to spine, spine end repaired wih tape (internally). Signed & inscribed " for Philip Murray / with my wishes / Ted Hughes / 18th October 1985."; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, (Faber 1970) First Edn., signed. V.G. in cloth, dust wrapper Ffep is clipped along top edge (Apparently to remove name). Pictorial dust wrapper by Leonard Baskin is clipped, slightly rubbed at ends with tiny spot soiling to front edge but overall is bright and clean with just a little toning to back panel. One of 4000 copies printed. Inscribed " for Philip Murray / greetings / Ted Hughes / 10th May 1985," Tales from Ovid (Faber 1997) First Edn., signed, v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper, signed "Ted Hughes"; Crow, First US Edn. (Harper & Row, 1971) Signed, v.g. in soiled boards lacks dust wrappers. Inscribed "greetings / from Ted Hughes." (4) €200-€300