[Rarebooks] FS: Two Editions of Basil Bunting's COLLECTED POEMS one with an Original SIGNED Sketch of the Poet, the other 1/150 SIGNED with silkscreen by Barnett Newman

[Charles Agvent]

BUNTING, Basil. COLLECTED POEMS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. 
New Revised Edition, previously published by Fulcrum Press in 1968. An 
interesting copy with an ORIGINAL pencil and ink portrait of Bunting, a 
little crude, on an 8" x 5-3/4" piece of sketch paper that has been 
SIGNED by the subject and dated 1979. The name of the artist, who has 
also signed, appears to be Gammon. Near Fine in a soiled, otherwise Near 
Fine dustwrapper. (#011696)        $150.00

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BUNTING, Basil. COLLECTED POEMS. (London): Fulcrum Press, (1968). First 
Edition. Gray cloth in dustwrapper designed by Barnett Newman. Copy #63 
of 150 specially bound copies printed on gray glastonbury paper and 
numbered and SIGNED by the author. Laid in in a cellophane envelope is 
an ORIGINAL SILKSCREEN by Newman reproducing the dustwrapper cover, also 
numbered 63/150 on the verso. Unidentified owner name dated 1969 on the 
front endpaper. Minor wear to the dustwrapper. About Fine in a 
price-clipped, Very Good or better dustwrapper. (#011689)        $350.00



See this interesting account of Bunting by Alastair Johnston in Stephen 
Gertz's blog BOOKTRYST:

http://www.booktryst.com/2012/08/basil-bunting-in-paradise.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+http%2Fwwwbooktrystcom+%28BOOKTRYST%29

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