BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEE HARWOOD

for sale from Alan Halsey / West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN

This is the first of a series of lists which will catalogue books and ephemera left by the late & greatly lamented Lee Harwood. It seems right & proper to begin with works by the man himself.

Prices in sterling, payment by cheque or PayPal. All items are first editions in original wrappers unless otherwise stated. Postage is extra and will be added to the last item on your invoice.

1. ed., as Travers Lee-Harwood, University of London Union Handbook 1960-61. 156pp. Wrprs soiled, some spotting to prelims. £20

2. contributes seven poems to The New British Poetry: Poetmeat 8: an anthology issue, ed. Dave Cunliffe & Tina Morris. Screeches n.d. [1965]. 112pp, 4to, duplicated text with stapled card covers. A few trifling marks to upper cover o/w a v fine copy. 31 contribs. incl. Pete Brown, Jim Burns, Paul Evans, Roy Fisher, Harry Guest, Anselm Hollo, Michael Horovitz, Adrian Mitchell, Chris Torrance & Gael Turnbull. Correction slip & flier for promotional readings laid in. £45

3. The Man with Blue Eyes. Angel Hair 1966. Cover by Joe Brainard. Preface by Peter Schjeldahl. LH’s signature on t.p. A few neatly inked corrections to text, presumably by LH. 44pp. Edn of 500. Unusually fine copy of the first Angel Hair book. £45

4. The White Room. Fulcrum 1968. 104pp. Mint copy printed on the limited edition grey antique laid paper, bound in grey buckram, sp. lettered gilt, orig. acetate dw – but unnumbered & unsigned. £20

5. Another copy, in the trade edition, cloth, mint in v. sl. rubbed dw. £20

6. Another, rather poor copy but inscr. ‘for Nana with much love and appreciation for all your kindness & patience, Travers (Lee Harwood) 18.IV.69’. Pp.7-10 loose. Dw clumsily ‘protected’ in polythene & stained by sellotape. £12

7. Landscapes. Fulcrum 1969. 48pp. Cloth, dw. Virtually mint. £18

8. Another copy, with a similar inscription to item 6 & similar damage to dw. £12

9. Another, advance copy in plain wrappers with pencil note by LH dated 11 Sept 69. He has also added in pencil the missing entry ‘Landscapes’ to contents page – this was not corrected in the published text. £15

10. The Sinking Colony. Fulcrum 1970. 30pp. Inscription similar to item 6. Wrprs sl. foxed. £20

11. Another copy, unsigned, sl. bruised. £15

12. Another, advance copy in plain wrappers with pencil note by LH ‘The Sinking Colony Oct 1970’. Laid in is the orig. photograph reproduced on the cover of the published book. £15

13. contributes ‘inside the harm is a clearing …’ to Twelve to Twelve, ed. Jeni Couzyn, Poets Trust 1970 for Poetry D-Day at the Camden Festival. 51pp. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by all 12 poets: this copy is designated ‘Out of Series’ but is signed as called for – the other contributors are Hughes, MacBeth, Henri, Heaney, Redgrove, Hamburger, Lucie-Smith, Pickard, Silkin, Stevie Smith & Plomer. Cloth, fine in faintly discoloured dw. £350

14. contributes ‘The Monastery’, ‘The Words’, ‘The Doomed Fleet’ & ‘Cargo’ to For Bill Butler, ed. Larry Wallrich & Eric Mottram. Wallrich Books for the Unicorn Defence Fund 1970. Edn of 500. 111pp w/ the Trigram broadside, ‘free semantic number 2’ by Asa Benveniste w/ print by Paul Vaughan, laid in as called for. All-star cast. Wrprs sl. rubbed o/w virtually mint. £50

15. The First Poem. Unicorn Poem Card 3, 1971. G/25 lettered copies hors commerce (signature not called for). Mint in orig. plain envelope. £18

16. trans. w/ intro. Tristan Tzara Destroyed Days: a selection of poems 1943-55. An Ant’s Forefoot Eleventh Finger Voiceprint Edition 1971. 20pp. Wrprs sl. rubbed o/w fine. £20

17. with John Ashbery & Tom Raworth Penguin Modern Poets 19. 1971. 208pp. Pages sw. darkened, wrprs sl. chipped but a tight sound copy. Brief tls to LH from the Penguin Editorial Department re publication date laid in. £12

18. New Year. Wallrich new year greeting 1972. Folded card. Inscr. similar to item 6. Sl. bruised. £20

19. Another copy, unsigned, mint. £12

20. contributes ‘New Year’ to Stone Soup Poetry 7, ed. John Wieners & Jack Power, 1973. 36pp. Mint. £12

21. contributes 4pp Introduction to Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum, ed. Peter Mayer. Ceolfrith 1974. 82pp incl. many Cobbing ills. Wrprs sl. rubbed, staples rusting. £20

22. HMS Little Fox. Oasis 1975. 94pp. LH signature on fly. An unspecified proof copy: LH has drawn circles & arrows on pp.22-23 to re-sequence the text as eventually published. Laid in is the original print of the Hathor hieroglyph for the p.5 section title together with the five original postcards of ships reproduced in the book. The copy shows clear signs of use but remains sound, wrprs in dw with closed tears at sp. £40

23. Another copy, mint, bound in blue buckram-covered brds, sp. lettered gilt, blue e.p.s. No variant binding is specified by the colophon & so this is presumably a one-off. Cf item 32. £25

24. contributes ‘A note on Paul Blackburn’ & 6 poems to Sixpack 7/8: Paul Blackburn Issue, ed. Joris & Prescott, 1974. 260pp. Wrprs sl. rubbed o/w a nr-fine copy. £20

25. trans. Tristan Tzara Cosmic Realities Vanilla Tobacco Dawnings. Arc 1975. 36pp. Edn of 500. Wrprs in sl. discoloured dw. Staples rusting o/w fine. £20

26. trans. w/ intro. & bibliography Tristan Tzara Selected Poems. Trigram 1975. 96pp. LH signature on fly. Cloth in shabby dw – this was clearly LH’s working copy, the text showing a few pencil notes (mostly re stanza breaks) in his hand & w/ a couple of scrappy scribbled notes laid in. Also laid in is a 2pp carbon copy typescript of his translation of ‘Dada Song’, added to the collection in the later Coach House edition; this carries LH’s holograph note referencing Mick Gold’s film ‘Europe after the rain’. £60

27. Another copy, in the paperback issue. LH’s inscr. on first e.p. similar to item 6 but also quoting three lines from the poem ‘Approach’. Dw rubbed & darkened, contents nr-fine. £40

28. Another copy in the paperback issue. Dw faintly darkened, contents virtually mint. £30

29. Another, advance copy, one of six ‘perfect bound’ for publicity use. The binding is in fact far from perfect & sheets will come loose unless carefully handled. Bruising at head of sp., a few light stains to darkened dw. Laid in is an approx. 120-word tls on Trigram notepaper, the publisher Asa Benveniste explaining the binding to LH & lamenting the quality of printing; he ends, ‘No doubt of it, I’ll have to get back to printing myself soon. This can’t go on.’ £50

30. Boston—Brighton. Oasis 1977. 59pp. LH signature on first blank. Scrap of paper laid in with a few notes on misprints in LH’s hand; he has neatly inked these & other errata into the text. Worn copy, pages darkened. £25

31. Another copy, less worn but pages also darkened. Inscr. similar to item 6. £25

32. Another copy, in brds uniform with item 23. The orig. wrappers have also been bound in. Pages darkened at edges. £25

33. with Antony Lopez Wish You Were Here. Transgravity 1979. 24pp. LH’s pencil note on fly: ‘Received 1^st May 1979 / advance rough copy’. Fine. £12

34. contributes 1p prose text ‘In the wild of a moorland parish …’ to Blocks from the Collection of Roger Tomlin, ed. Richard Caddel. Arc/Pig 1979. 20pp, ills. throughout. Edn of 500. Other contribs. incl. Benveniste, Marley, Green, Themerson & Cutler. Wrprs in dw. Fine. £10

35. contributes ‘the map of the town’ to A Colpitts Dozen, North Gate Press 1979. No 10 of the 14 (sic) Colpitts Poetry Cards issued 1977-79, here collected in orig. printed envelope. Other contributors incl. E.Morgan, Caddel, Dunn, J.Williams, Turnbull, Porter, Feinstein & MacCaig. Cards mint, sl. bruising to edges of envelope. £25

36. contributes 4 poems to English and American Surrealist Poetry, ed. Edward B. Germain, Penguin 1979 reprint. 348pp. Wrprs sl. rubbed o/w fine. £5

37. contributes 18pp article ‘Dada: My Heart Belongs to Dada’ to South East Arts Review 17, ed. John Rice, 1981. 60pp. Mint. £10

38. Another copy, chipped at sp. £6

39. Faded Ribbons … Other Branch Readings 17, 1982. 8pp. 77/100. Virtually mint. £10

40. with Richard Caddel Wine Tales 1979-81: un roman devin. Galloping Dog 1984. 28pp. Wrprs sl. darkened o/w fine. £12

41. contributes ‘The Long Black Veil Book Ten’ & ‘When the geography was fixed’, with French translations by Didier Pemerle, to Matieres d’Angleterre: Anthologie bilingue de la Nouvelle Poesie Anglaise ed. Pierre Joris & Paul Buck. In’hui 19, 1984. 400pp. Sl. crease to wrprs o/w a fine copy of an impressive collection of 52 poets. £25

42. Monster Masks. Pig 1985. 62pp. C/26 copies lettered & signed. Mint. £30

43. Another copy, in the trade edition. Nr-fine. £10

44. Dream Quilt: 30 assorted stories. Slow Dancer 1985. 48pp. Mint. £10

45. Assorted Stories. Drawings by Peter Bailey. Coffee House 1987. 20pp. 122/400 signed by author & artist. Handset letterpress. £15

46. trans. Tristan Tzara Chanson Dada: Selected Poems. Coach House & Underwhich 1987. 144pp. The poems in the Trigram edn. reprinted with the addition of ‘Dada Song’. LH adds a new introduction & his essay ‘dada / My Heart Belongs to Dada’. Plus bibliography. Cloth, dw. Mint. £40

47. Another copy, in the paperback issue. LH’s pencil note on fly: ‘received 27.8.87’. Fine. £25

48. contributes poems from title illegible to Verbi Visi Voco: a performance of poetry, ed. Bob Cobbing & Bill Griffiths. Writers Forum 1992. A 320pp retrospective of WF publications, cast of thousands. Mint. £10

49. contributes ‘2 Poems & More Bunting for Mr Corbett’ to the William Corbett issue of Lift, 15/16, 1994. Ed. Joseph Torra. 160pp. Mint. £10

50. The Song of Those who are on the Sea of Glass. Short Run, Cheltenham 1995. Edn of 26. 4pp printed on stiff card, in stiff card wrapper. Mint. £20

51. contributes ‘Cable Street’ & ‘Visits to the Mountains’ to Conductors of Chaos, ed. Iain Sinclair, Picador 1996. 488pp. Sl. creases to sp. o/w fine. £15

52. title illegible. Writers Forum 3^rd edn. 1998. A facsimile (by photocopy) of LH’s first book (Writers Forum 1965). 20pp printed rectos only. Mint. £5

53. Morning Light. Slow Dancer 1998. 72pp. Fine. £6

54. with Robin Blaser & Barbara Guest Etruscan Reader VI. Etruscan 1998. 134pp. Edn of 500. Fine. £6

55. contributes 6pp afterword to James Schuyler Last Poems. Slow Dancer 1999. 64pp. Mint. £10

56. contributes ‘Safe-Past-Words?’ to The Blind See Only This World: Poems for John Wieners, ed. Corbett, Gizzi & Torra, Granary & Pressed Wafer 2000. 109pp. LH has made several corrections to his poem in pencil. £12

57. contributes 5pp essay ‘Admiring Mr Fisher’s Patent Cabinet’ to News for the Ear: a homage to Roy Fisher, ed. Robert Sheppard & Peter Robinson. Stride 2000. 126pp. Mint. £12

58. contributes ‘For Peter Riley / Denmark February 1970’ to April Eye: Poems for Peter Riley, ed. Peter Hughes, Infernal Methods 2000. 48pp. Small spot on upper wrpr o/w fine. £8

59. contributes ‘Landscape with 3 People’, ‘The Seaside’, poems from The Man with Blue Eyes & a Memoir to Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in my Head: the Angel Hair Anthology ed. Anne Waldman & Lewis Warsh. Granary 2001. An extensive 627pp selection of poems from Angel Hair 1-6 & many Angel Hair books + checklist. Cloth, dw. A virtually mint copy w/ Granary compliments slip & flier laid in. £55

60. trans. Tristan Tzara The Glowing Forgotten. Leafe 2003. A 24pp selection from the Trigram & Coach House editions. Mint. £8

61. trans. Tristan Tzara Chanson Dada: Selected Poems. Black Widow 2005. 144pp. Reprint of the Coach House edn. but w/ new intro. & revisions to ‘dada / My Heart Belongs to Dada’. Mint. £12

62. The Books. Longbarrow 2011. 6/50 signed copies. 12pp miniature landscape pamphlet in orig. printed envelope. Together, as issued, w/ mini-CD of LH reading the three poems, Brighton, 25 April 2011. £15

Critical Studies

63. William Walton Rowe Three Lyric Poets: Harwood, Torrance, MacSweeney. Northcote House Writers & Their Work 2009. 126pp. Mint. £12

64. Robert Sheppard ed. The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood. Salt 2007. 238pp incl. interview by RS. Mint. £25