BABEL BOOKS   Kevin Perryman

SIGNED AND UNSIGNED FIRSTS

LITERATURE - ESPECIALLY POETRY - IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN

Catalogues are sent out by post in the following order:

• first, to all who ordered from the last catalogue,
• second, to good customers among friends and colleagues,
• third, to anyone else who asks for one.

After quite a while these catalogues end up trawlable on the net like this one: catalogue 2.
It will, I hope, at least give you some idea of the sort of stuff I am selling.

Send me your wants lists, if you will, and let me know which authors or presses you are interested in. I might be able to offer you something from my stockpiles, or stumble across some gem elsewhere.

My next couple of lists will include signed and unsigned first editions, but also manuscripts, typescripts and letters - all of which are becoming increasingly difficult to find, the more poets compose at the keyboard and knock off Emails rather than writing real letters. (I remember Robert Creeley telling me in the mid-90s that he had stopped keeping drafts ages ago, writing as he did at the computer.)