Search Results: Poetry from Alex Richardson

Amsterdam: Privately Printed, 2022. 1st edition. Hardback. Green boards with gold decoration to front and lettering to spine. Octavo. 88 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations by Rebecca Yanovskaya throughout the text. Issued in an edition of 250 copies signed, numbered and stamped by the author. Very Good. Ink smudge in the top corner of the front free endpaper.

Privately Printed, 1996. Paperback. 12mo (19 x 13.1 cm). Booklet of 16 pages sewn into blue wraparound card covers. Pagination: [4 blanks], half-title page, [1 blank], title page, copyright page, [2 pages], [1 blank], limitation notice, [4 blanks]. Printed for Reed and Alan Clodd by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press, September 1996. Number 73 in an edition of 80 copies, signed, numbered and corrected by the author. (Note: Another copy of this book (number 11) for sale online is described as having a "metallic" blue card cover. The cover for this one is of ordinary card. My best bibliographical guess is that the metallic card was reserved for the early copies in the run, perhaps the first twenty?) Good. Cover has some creasing along its edges and a couple of tiny spots to the title plate on its front.

Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1986. Paperback. Octavo. Booklet of 27 numbered pages stapled into yellow card covers. One of a limited edition of 300 copies. Very Good. Previous owner's gift inscription to the front flyleaf. Cover a bit faded at the spine on both of its faces.

Cambridge: The Gabriel Press, 2008. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo. Booklet of 24 pages sewn into cream card covers. Both the covers and the text have been left untrimmed at the fore-edge. 8 b&w illustrations within the text. Number 14 in a limited edition of 32 copies. Very Good. Back cover slightly scuffed in its top left corner.

London: Picador, 2020. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 59 pages. Several b&w drawings by Tim Robertson within the text. Foreword by Val McDermid. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has some creasing around the head of its spine and a faint mark on its back.

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 2006. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarter bound in oatmeal buckram over black boards. Paper title label to spine. Octavo. Unpaginated. Poems in English and French. One of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed and inscribed by the poet on the front flyleaf: "To John / with all best wishes / John / 6-11-09". Very Good. Front board a bit scuffed in places. Text has a small mark on its fore-edge. [John Edward Clement Twarowski White, CBE, FSA (1924-2021). British art historian, Professor at University College London, RAF pilot, poet and almost-Buddhist.]

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 2004. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarter bound in oatmeal buckram over violet boards. Paper title label to spine. Octavo. Unpaginated. Poems in English and French. One of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed and inscribed by the poet on the front flyleaf: "To John / with all best wishes / John / 6-11-09". Very Good. Tiny spot on the top edge of the text. [John Edward Clement Twarowski White, CBE, FSA (1924-2021). British art historian, Professor at University College London, RAF pilot, poet and almost-Buddhist.]

Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1980. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo. 64 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations by Hella Basu within the text. Good in Good jacket. Text tanned at the edges, particularly the endpapers; slight crease to the top corner of the first twenty or so pages. Jacket has obvious wear to its corners and around its spine ends, which are also scuffed.

Cambridge: Cardozo-Kindersley Editions, 2015. 1st edition. Hardback. No jacket as issued. 12mo. 72 pages. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs by Chadwyck-Healey. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: "Best wishes / Christy". Very Good. Boards a little rubbed and chipped along the edges; back has a couple of faint marks.

Durham: The Pentland Press Ltd, 1999. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xii prelims] 121 pages. Foreword by Helen Vendler. Laid in at the front are two handwritten letters to Michael Black, along with a stapled set of A4 sheets, computer-printed with Sale's handwritten corrections, of three further poems: "Darby And Joan / Sculptures Observed"; "Is This Joan? A Plea to Bevis"; "St Joan? (& Darby)". Good in Good jacket. Text has a small stain on its top, near the fore-edge. Jacket a little tanned at the edges. [Arthur Sale (1912-2000), Tutor in English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and poet; Michael H. Black (1928-2022), author, literary critic and publisher at the Cambridge University Press.] 1858216508

London: Live Canon, 2017. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. 67 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: "for Daphne, / with best wishes, / Mark. / London. 24.7.2017". Very Good in Good jacket which has some wear to its corners and the head of its spine.