A collection of twelve works of mid 20th Century poetry, sev...

Hammer

£320

A collection of twelve works of mid 20th Century poetry, several by members of "The Movement", comprising Philip Larkin: 'The Whitsun Weddings', London, Faber & Faber, 1964, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (12s 6d price intact); Ted Hughes, 2 titles: 'Lupercal', L, Faber & Faber, 1960, 1st edition, printed dedication "To Sylvia [Plath]", original maroon cloth gilt, dust wrapper (12s 6d price intact). First edition of Hughes's second book, one of 2,250 copies printed, 'Season Songs', L, Faber, 1976, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Thom Gunn, 2 titles: 'My Sad Captains', L, Faber, 1961, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w (12s 6d price intact), 'Moly', L, Faber, 1971, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt (laminated); Elizabeth Jennings: 'A Sense of the World', L, Andre Deutsch, 1958, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by author to FFEP "Elizabeth Jennings. Inscribed on a June evening in London 1960.", orig. cloth gilt, d/w; Kingsley Amis: 'The Evans Country', Fantasy Press, November 1962, 1st edition, part of the Fantasy Poets series, this volume contains 6 poems on Wales which had previously appeared in The Spectator, original printed stapled wraps; Muriel Spark: 'Collected Poems I', L, Macmillan, 1967, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Robert Lowell: 'Near the Ocean', L, Faber, 1967, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; Larence Durrell, 2 titles: 'The Ikons and other poems', L, Faber, 1966, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, 'Collected Poems', L, Faber, 1960, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; W.S. Merwin: 'Green with Beasts', L, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956, 1st edition, orig. paper covered boards, d/w, majority of titles with ownership signature of John R.H. Yeoman to front pastedown. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton” (12)