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Thom Gunn. Mandrakes [Numbered edition] (Together with slip case). The Rainbow Press, London, 1973.
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Collection of ten poems in an edition of 150 numbered copies printed on Barcham Green paper by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. This copy is #148. It is NOT signed by the author. Frontispiece and four other full-page illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Bound in quarter white goat vellum and maroon cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Red and green sewn headbands. This is not an ex-library copy. Very clean inside pages, tightly bound. Enclosed within a maroon cloth covered slip case, which has a few dust marks but is solidly made.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
GUNN, Thom.. Mandrakes. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin.. [London:] The Rainbow Press, 1973, 1973.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 149 of 150 copies signed by Gunn. Attractively printed at the Rampant Lions Press and beautifully illustrated by Leonard Baskin. "It occurs to me that 'Mandrakes' can be read as an allegory about the fate of the English - or English poetry - in what is, for the English, supposedly a post-imperialist age. It can also be read as a poem about secret or hidden forms of desire as these persist, about paganism" (Tuma, p. 102). Keith Tuma, "Thom Gunn and Anglo-American Modernism" in Joshua Weiner, ed., At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn, 2009. Quarto. Original vellum-backed dark brown-red boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in publisher's red buckram slipcase. Frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations by Leonard Baskin. The binding sharp, internally crisp; a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
GUNN, Thom.. Mandrakes.. The Rainbow Press, London., 1973.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarto. 36 pages. Five full-page drawings by Leonard Baskin. Quarter white goat vellum. Five full-page drawings by Leonard Baskin. Designed and printed on Barcham Green paper by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Number 150 of 150 numbered copies signed by the author.Fine in near-fine cloth slipcase slightly faded at one edge.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
GUNN, Thom. Mandrakes. The Rainbow Press, [London], 1973.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarto. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Quarter vellum gilt and papercovered boards. Fine in fine cardboard slipcase. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by Gunn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Gunn, Thom. Mandrakes. The Rainbow Press, 1973.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Vellum backed Japanese boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lion Press. Fine in fine publisher's slipcase. First edition, one of 150 copies, signed by by the author.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Gunn, Thom. Mandrakes.. The Rainbow Press 1973. 1973, 1973.
Price: US$496.46 + shipping
Description: 28,5x19,5 cm. 33, (3) pp. With illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Publisher's white quarter goat vellum, in slip-case, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. A very good copy. Printed in 150 numbered copies, this is no. 133.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Gunn, Thom.. MANDRAKES.. The Rainbow Press, 1973.
Price: US$747.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Leonard Baskin, 11.5 x 7.5, vellum backed cloth, 33 pp, vg in slipcase. LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY GUNN.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Thom Gunn. Mandrakes (Additionally Inscribed to His Editor Roert Giroux). The Rainbow Press, 1973.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A wonderful Association copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THOM GUNN TO HIS EDITOR, THE FORMIDABLE ROBERT GIROUX OF "FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX", on the front free endpaper. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the 1973 limited edition, bound in its attractive 1/4 vellum over wine-red cloth by the revered Sangorski & Sutcliffe. #88 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THOM GUNN AT THE LIMITATION AND ILLUSTRATED BY LEONARD BASKIN. Also includes a sturdy, very sharp example of the matching slipcase, with just a bit of light offsetting along the fore and bottom-edges.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Gunn (Thom).. Mandrakes. Rainbow Press,, 1973.
Price: US$1075.93 + shipping
Description: Plates by Leonard Baskin One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. Designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press Small folio Fine copy in slipcase (sunned in places). Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper "With much affection for Eric, Thom, Nov 18 1979", also inscribed by Ted Hughes "To Dodo and Eric from Carol and Ted with much love July 1st 1976" The inscriptions are to Hughes close friend Eric Walter White, the poet, editor, translator and composer, and his wife Dorothy. A flyer for a poetry reading by Gunn and an order form for Mandrakes, inscribed by Olwyn Hughes, are loosely inserted. Original quarter vellum lettered and ruled in gilt
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom