Poetry and Literature.

Lawrence Durrell (Bitter Lemons, inscribed presentation copy; On Seeming to Presume, multiple copies; Quinx, signed; Justine; Prospero's Cell; a record of Durrell reading Greek Poems, an LP of him reading Love Poems), Paul Claudel, George Barker (The View from a Blind I; The Golden Chains; At Thurgarton Church), Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, William Plomer, Robert Graves, George Moore (Peronnik the Fool, with engravings by Stephen Gooden, 1933, one of 525 copies signed by author and illustrator), Dorothy Wellesley (Jupiter and the Nun, Hogarth Press, 1932, one of 250 copies signed by the author and inscribed to Adelaide Livingstone; Poems of Ten Years, 1934, similarly inscribed); Aldous Huxley (On the Margin, Edward Sackville West's copy with his ownership signature and bookplate) and others; together with two further copies of Poetry in the Making (1967, one of 100 signed by the contributors including Philip Larkin), volumes in the Poetry Europe series, multiple copies of C. Day Lewis's Christmas Eve illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (in the Ariel Poems new series), The Wood Engravings of Robert Gittings (1959), the facsimile edition of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1971), the facsimile edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), The Liverpool Scene (1967, edited by Edward Lucie-Smith), an envelope of issues of Scottish Journal from the early 1950s, and at least one work inscribed to Stanley Eker (Mischa Damjan's Two Cats in America, illustrated by Ralph Steadman, inscribed by the illustrator with an original drawing on the front endpaper)

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