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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. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin.. [London:] The Rainbow Press, 1973, 1973.
Price: US$452.00 + 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, 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.