Fantasy Poets and Donald Davie.

(i) "The Fantasy Poets", complete set, Swinford [Oxfordshire], 1952-1962, 35 pamphlets, poets including Philip Larkin, Thom Gunn, Kingsley Amis,  George Steiner, Geoffrey Hill, Adrienne Cecile Rich, A. Alvarez,  Anthony Thwaite, Donald Davie, Adrian Mitchell,  uniformly published as stapled pamphlets, edited by Oscar Mellor, Michael Shanks, Donald Hall, George Macbeth, Bernard Bergonzi and Anthony Thwaite, some slight browning to wrappers (ii) Davie, Donald. The Fantasy Poets...Number Fifteen. Swinford, Oxfordshire, 1954, signed by the author, original printed wrappers; Brides of Reason. Fantasy Press, Swinford, Oxfordshire, 1955, first edition, the dedication copy inscribed to his mother ("...a book for your birthday | with love from | Donald"), signatures of both on front endpaper, three autograph corrections to the text, transcription of Spectator review loosely inserted, original wrappers, glassine, glassine slightly torn; and two other items, one a presentation copy inscribed to his parents (39)

[Fantasy Poets] the poet and writer Anthony Thwaite, latterly editor of The Fantasy Poets

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Davie, Donald, contrib. New Lines. An Anthology edited by Robert Conquest. Macmillan & Co., 1956, presentation copy inscribed by davie to his parents ("for my mother & father | with love, | Donald"), autograph letter signed to his parents, presenting and discussing the book,  loosely inserted (2pp., Rahney, 11 September 1956), together with copies of reviews, original green cloth, dust-jacket; 8vo; together with an edited transcript of an unpublished interview with Davie at the University of Exeter, 29 May 1968 (4)