vivian locke ellis walter mare (8 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good -. First Printing. Dust jacket has some edge scuffs and minor chipping, with spine sunning; a nice copy of book with minor wear. 136 pages. Book.

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine - Collectible. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Text/Near New & Bright. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; clipped; rubs, nip to edges & showing discoloration. Anthology of hitherto unpublished verse penned over some 40 years by English, Georgian poet Vivian Locke Ellis (1878-1950). Dense, emotional songs voiced in the first person. 'These Are the Wreath I Bring': "These are wreaths I Bring/ For my love's garlanding/ Long are the years; the hours/ Many and long, I know, since I brought flowers/. Jewels she will not wear/ Gold is not gold to her/ Flowers she loves, sometimes/ but what of rhymes?". First Edition, 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. No dj. Red cloth. 136 pp. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. NEAR FINE.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1946. A 2pp. letter hand-written by Walter de la Mare Jack Haines. A 28 line letter written to poet and solictior Jack Haines. The letter is candid and affectionate and relates to 'the labour of love' involved in writing the introduction to Vivian Locke Ellis's 'Collected Lyrical Poems'. He says that the Ellis poem 'Go, nor Aquaint the rose' continues to 'bloom' in him and goes on to talk about the first time he met Locke Ellis. He also mentions other poets and mutual friends- Jack Squire, Bernard Hockley - and laments the dying of so many friends. Comes with a copy of the 'Collected Lyrical Poems' by Vivian Locke Ellis, published by Faber in 1946. There is also a hand-written postcard card by Locke Ellis giving directions to Jack Haines telling him of the trains- and times of the trains- that he needs to catch to visit him. Book is very good++ and very bright. The wrapper is near very good with edges rubbed and nicked. Small loss to wrapper spine. A few odd closed tears to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15270. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. James Guthrie (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 22pp + iii prelims. Printed on hand-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. Collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas by twelve poets, including Gordon Bottomley, Walter de la Mare, Vivian Locke Ellis, James Guthrie, Robert Frost, Teresa Hooley and Kenneth Morris. Foreword by Robert P. Eckert Jr. Dark brown cloth quarter binding with crease to tip of top and tail of spine. Grey paper covered boards with a green title plate tipped to front cover. Crease to tip of lower front corner. Green and white illustrated title page. E T decorative device on Content's page. Number of other decorations and illustrative page headings together with the Pear Tree Press motif. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Light toning on ffep and rfep.

[4] + 74pp., 4to. On 78 pieces of paper, bound with metal clasp in blue card folder, with white paper label with title on front cover ('THE DESERT MINSTREL | AND | OTHER POEMS | BY | VINCENT LOCKE ELLIS') and second label with address on inside front cover. In good condition, lightly-aged, in aged and worn folder. In worn manila envelope, with note by R. P. Lister (see below) reading: 'Typescript of collection of poems (unpublished) by Vivian Locke Ellis'. Three-page 'Index' gives the titles of the 69 poems, beginning with 'To W. de la M. [i.e. Walter de la Mare] from V. L. E.' and ending with the longest poem in the book, 'April, 1917 | To Edward Thomas; | Killed in action on Easter Monday'. Other poems include: 'Two Shepherds (To W. de la Mare)', 'Hitler's Threat at Danzig', 'Sexton's Rally', 'Down Perim's Coasts' and 'In Temple Gardens'. Ellis's obituary in The Times, 1 June 1950, describes him as 'the author of a number of poems of high quality in the grand tradition of English lyrical verse'. He was one of the Georgian poets, appearing with Edward Thomas, W. H. Davis, Walter de la Mare and J. C. Squire in the group's 1918 anthology '12 Poets'. Ellis was also the backer behind John Middleton Murry's 'Adelphi' magazine. His career spanned more than forty years, with his first published work, 'An Elegy', appearing in 1904, and 'Collected Lyrical Poems' in 1946. The Times obituary notes that Ellis was 'engaged on completing a further collection at the time of his death', and the present item is clearly that collection, several of its 69 poems having previously published, at least as early as 1910 ('Go, Saintlike Sybil' appeared in 'The Academy' in that year), and with one poem, 'To A. V. B.' [i.e. Arnold Vincent Bowen (1901-1947)], dated 'December 1947'. This item comes from the papers of fellow-poet Richard Percival Lister (1914-2014), who with Ellis was an active member of the London literary society 'The Saturdays', founded in 1944. The poem 'To A. V. B.' is an elegy for Bowen (another of 'The Saturdays'), and apparently unpublished. It exemplifies Ellis's qualities: 'Brave spirit, loving life too well | to gird at death, | This halt you make is but to | take a deeper breath. | We who are left are only one | the less. | Only! Were only less the wilderness. | I who have journeyed further | but to stand | And watch you pass me - | Brother, lend me your hand.' Note: Kenneth Hopkins, in his autobiography, describes Ellis as a "complete poet" ("The Corruption of a Poet", p.202).

Decorative Boards. Etat : Near Fine. 12 issues bound in 2, published between October 1910 - September 1911. [10], 376, iv, [32] ads ; [10], iv, [30] pp. Elegant half cream buckram over decorative boards with gilt-tooled lettering to spine. Uncut. Light discolouration to top of boards, leaves toned but clean throughout. Bookplates to paste-down of vol. 1 and small inscriptions in ink to rear endpapers. 'The Open Window' was a monthly illustrated magazine published in West & Central London, running for six months from October 1910, and then five months from April 1911. These 2 volumes contain the full 12 issues, the third issue containing Katherine Mansfield's first published work 'A Fairy Story'. Written contributions include: Edward Thomas, E. M. Forster, George Bourne, Katherine Mansfield, Maxwell Armfield, Douglas Goldring, W. H. Davies, Geoffrey Whitworth, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Walter de la Mare and Vivian Locke Ellis etc. Artworks contributors include: C . J. Holmes, John Sloane, Auguste Rodin, Maxwell Armfield, C. M. Gere, Jack B Yeats. Adverts and a pair of wraps bound in. 16mo.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, black buckram spine with printed paper label to the upper board. An excellent clean and tight copy, the fragile spine with some fraying to the lower edge is holding firm. The contents with the decorative bookplate of John Gold to the front pastedown and with pertinent pencil inscriptions to the front endpaper are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas. Inscribed by the publisher James Guthrie in pencil at the head of the front free endpaper "To John Gold / from James" underneath which Gold has inscribed "To Roger / fr John / Aug 1949". Limited to 150 copies of which this is hand-numbered 105. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.