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Published by Gyldendal, (Copenhagen), 1974
ISBN 10: 8700290211ISBN 13: 9788700290211
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by Dutch artist and musician Lars Karmark. Each author and poem introduced by the editor, and poems with footnotes, often giving the Dutch translation for the word or phrase. Illustrated wrappers. Wraps very lightly worn, a few shallow creases, about near fine. A Dutch anthology of English poetry (text is entirely in English). Prints four poems by Seamus Heaney, including "Mid-Term Break" and "For the Commander of the 'Eliza'" (both first appearing in Heaney's rare first book *Eleven Poems*, 1965), "The Early Purges" (first appears, along with the two prior poems, in *Death of a Naturalist*, 1966), and "The Tollund Man" (first appears in *Wintering Out*, 1972). Also prints poems by W.H. Auden, John Betjeman, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Christopher Logue, Wole Soyinka, Elizabeth Jennings, and others. The poems were also recorded on tapes, offered for sale by Richter-Felix. Scarce, *OCLC* locates just 6 holdings, none in the U.S., and *KVK* seems to locate no copies. Not in *Brandes & Durkan*.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine proof. Small octavo. Perfect bound. Illustrated paper wrappers. Rubbed with vertical fold extending through all the wraps, very good or better. The editor's corrected copy for the printer of this literary magazine from Edinburgh Scotland with printed versos and rectos followed by alternating blank sheets, various editorial marks throughout, and taped in poem now loose. Contributors to this issue include Hird, Gael Turnbull, Phyllis Lyth, Edward Mackin, J. Phoenice, Celia Randall, D.W. Broadbridge, Phillippa Berlyn, Frances Harland, Moria O'Donaghoe, Geoff Richman, Martin Haley, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Paul Callan, Richard Milner, Eric Nixon, W. Sanderson, John Hales-Tooke, Gloria Evans Davies, Carla Lanyon Lanyon, Kenneth S. Kitchin, Paul Greene, Gordon Harris, W.H. Boore, Dorothy Stringer, Maurice Tasnier, R.L. Cook, John Lucas, and Andrew Molloy Carson.