Paper Pennies and Other Poems; Supplication To The Himalayas, In The Yemen Caves; The Borrowed Gull; A Winnowing Silence; White; On The Death of Archbishop Broix; THE CRYING EMBER; Words; Pilgrims and Petitions; Teller; Coronis; In Her Hands; Hands Twining Grasses; Spawning the Os; Yogh; Brevities; Rider and Horse; Conversations With a Captor; Winter's Night Knotting; The Knotting Sequence; The Earth Man Dreams of a Turned Sod; Calling With Owls; Bedfordshire Writer; The Dying; Making A Success Of A Small Press; Decadal
[UK /US]: [various], 1969-1977. First Edition. Paperback and hardcover. A significant collection of first editions by this distinguished writer. Chapbooks, first collected book in jacketed cloth, pamphlets and broadsides, mostly poetry by Martin Booth. PAPER PENNIES and Other Poems (signed - his rare first book; 1/100); Supplication To The Himalayas. Sceptre Press, 1968 (his second publication, a signed , illustrated broadside limited to 50 copies). IN THE YENAN CAVES. 1969, one of 74 numbered copies. THE BORROWED GULL. 1970, one of 74 numbered. WHITE. 1971, one of 100 numbered. WHITE. 1971, one of 100 numbered. A WINNOWING OF SILENCE. 1971, one of 180 numbered and signed. ONE THE DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP BROIX. 1971. THE CRYING EMBERS, Fuller D'arch Smith, 1971,1st binding, first collected. WORDS Broadsheet three, one of 100 numbered. PILGRIMS AND PETITIONS. 1972. Teller. 1972. Inscribed to Robert Nye. CORONIS. 1973. Review copy with prospectus. IN HER HANDS [1973], one of 50 numbered and signed, with inscription to Robert Nye; and regular issue limited of 100. HANDS TWINING GRASSES. 1974. One of 100 numbered copies; inscribed ot Robert Nye. SPAWNING THE OS. 1974, one of 350 numbered copies. YOGH. 1974, on of 100 numbered copies, with added poet's inscription. BREVITIES (Cid Corman's design at Elizabeth Press). [1974], one of 300 copies; inscribed to Robert Nye. RIDER AND HORSE. 1976. THE KNOTTING SEQUENCE. [1977]. THE EARTH MAN DREAMS OF A TURNED SOD. [1978], one of 50 signed and numbered; and one of 150 numbered (of 200). THE DYING. [1978], one of 50 numbered and signed. WINTER'S NIGHT [1979], one of 50 numbered and signed; additional issue sent as holiday greeting. DECADAL: Ten Years of Sceptre Press. [1979]. Edited by Booth, one of 300 copies; specially signed. CALLING WITH OWLS. [1979], one of 100 numbered and signed. THE DEVIL'S WINE. 1980. Full leather, one of 50 copies, signed. MARTIN BOOTH: Bedfordshire Writer. CONVERSATIONS WITH A CAPTOR by Jean Overton Fuller [1973], forward by Booth, with his inscription to Robert Nye. MAKING A SUCCESS OF A SMALL PRESS. np/nd. Most published in the UK, some US. With FOUR TYPED LETTERS SIGNED AND ONE TYPED POSTCARD SIGNED to author Robert Nye dated from Dec. 1973, to March 1974. Good publishing, writing content having to do with reviewing, sending books off to London publishers, needing a job, paying the printer, suggesting a book of "porn-ography", etc. Nye, like Booth a prolific novelist and poet, was the poetry editor of The Scotsman and there are references made to it. Near fine / near fine. Item #5211
Booth began Sceptre Press in 1968. Himself a prize-winning poet, he late in his productive career became a best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist (A Very Private Gentleman from which the George Clooney Vehicle THE AMERICAN was made) and writer of nonfiction. His press published many of the best British poets, and eventually US poets throughout the 70's. Many of these copies inscribed to Robert Nye his contemporary and fellow British poet and publisher. 34 items in total, including letters, ranging from very good to fine, mostly fine. Nearly impossible collection to put together today.
Price: $1,000.00