Lewis, Jenny; Day Lewis, C.; Skeat, T C.; Larkin, Philip. Poetry in the Making : Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum, April - June 1967. Turret Books, 1967.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall). 68 pages + plates. Published for the Arts Council of Great Britain and the museum; includes reproductions of manuscript poems by W. H. Auden, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Keith Douglas, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Edwin Muir and Dylan Thomas. Preface by Day Lewis; introduction by Skeat; essay ('Operation Manuscript') by Larkin; includes index. Additional printed brochure ('Poetry in the Making / Illustrative Material'), with additional printed leaf, present. A very good copy in very good dust jacket with slight rubbing to jacket; slight internal browning to edges.8 b/w Illustrations / Plates (facsimiles).

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

LEWIS, Jenny with contributions by C. Day Lewis, T.C. Skeat, Philip Larkin. Poetry of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum. April-June 1967. Turret Books for The Arts Council of Great Britain & The British Museum, (London), 1967.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Illustrated reproducing manuscript material, in holograph facsimile, by Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and others. Octavo. 68pp. Clothbound issue, only 500 copies issued. S&T B034a.1. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Laid into the book is 8-page publisher's pamphlet, entitled, 'Poetry in the Making Illustrative Material,' and a mimeographed sheet, listing readings by Ted Hughes, and others [as issued, by Turret Books, for the exhibition]. Includes Ted Hughes' poem "Mountains," and a fragment of "Sort" both reproduced in Hughes' holograph facsimile, from the original manuscript) Also prints biographical sketches, and descriptions of items in the exhibition, including materials by W.H. Auden, Derek Walcott, Dylan Thomas, C. Day Lewis, Philip Larkin, and others. Text includes a two-page preface by C. Day Lewis, and "Operation Manuscript" by Philip Larkin (eight-pages).

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Lewis, Jenny with contributions by C Day Lewis, T. C. Skeat and Philip Larkin. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum. London Turret Books for The Arts Council of Great Britain and The British Museum 1967, 1967.

Price: US$48.76 + shipping

Description: Sole edition. The casebound issue, of which 500 copies were printed. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lemon endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo, pp. [1-]9-68. With 'Poetry in the Making Illustrative Material' stapled booklet and a promotional poetry readings notice laid in, both in Fine condition. Illustrated with eight manuscript reproductions including holograph work by Betjeman, Auden, Blunden, Dylan Thomas, Keith Douglas, Edwin Muir, Ted Hughes and Larkin. Single tiny blemish to the top edge, and another to the foredge, else a Fine copy with fractionally chafed and edgeworn dust-jacket which is not price-clipped (showing '25/-'') Includes Larkin's eight-page essay Operation Manuscript. Bloomfield B7

Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom

(HUGHES, Ted, W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Philip Larkin, Jenny Lewis, Dyland Thomas, and Derek Walcott.). Poetry in the Making: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum - April - June 1967 by Jenny Lewis with contributions by C. Day Lewis, T.C. Skeat, [and] Philip Larkin. Published by Turret Books for The Arts Council of Great Britain & The British Museum, (London), 1967.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, pre-publication issue. Few small spots of foxing to fore-edge of a few leaves, else a fine copy, laid into publisher's stiff printed wrappers (matching the printed dust jacket); wrappers have a very faint crease on front and rear covers, else fine. Laid into the book is 8-page publisher's pamphlet, entitled, *Poetry in the Making Illustrative Material,* and a mimeographed sheet, listing readings by Ted Hughes, and others [as issued, by Turret Books, for the exhibition]. A scarce publication in this pre-publication format. Advance copy, consisting of unbound, unsewn signatures, laid into stiff wrappers [advance copy not noted by bibliographers (see Ted Hughes/ Sagar and Tabor B34 for both the limited and trade editions)]. Tall octavo, unbound signatures, untrimmed [taller, by approximately one-half inch, than final published sheets], 68 pages (illustrated with four leaves of plates, reproducing manuscript material, in holograph facsimile, by Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin et al), laid into stiff printed wrappers [matching the printed dust jacket]. Includes Ted Hughes' poem "Mountains," and a fragment of "Sort" (both reproduced in Hughes' holograph facsimile, from the original manuscript)[see S&T B34a]. Also prints biographical sketches, and descriptions of items in the exhibition, including materials by W.H. Auden, Derek Walcott, Dylan Thomas, C. Day Lewis, Philip Larkin et al. Text includes a two-page preface by C. Day Lewis, and "Operation Manuscript" by Philip Larkin (eight-pages).

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.