Black Marigolds by Mathers E Powys (5 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book.

First edition. Octavo. 22 pages. Sewn wrappers. On the front cover is a gift inscription from Christopher Congreve to the poet Laurence Whistler. On the half-title page is Congreve's bookplate on which he has also replaced his own name with Whistler's.Covers a bit dusty. Very good.

Soft Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Includes an introduction by the author, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1919. "Even Now" On the front cover (gold with black lettering) is One Shilling and Sixpence, net. This is the versified translation of "Chaurapanchasika, the fifty stanzas of Chauras." A must for any Doc Ricketts or Steinbeck collector. Referred to in Cannery Row. Stitched folded spine. Printed at the Vincent Works, Oxford. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Copy number '87' of an edition limited to 200 copies, signed by the artist, Glenys Cour. Designed by Nicolas McDowall, and printed on a special making of Zerkall paper using Benguiat type and line-blocks made at The Old Stile Press. Patterned paper covered boards in an envelope style with a magnetic fastener, patterned endpapers. Narrow Folio, 310 x 175 mm, pp. [72] and illustrated throughout. A book in Near Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Cour, Glenys (illustrator). Limited Edition. Imagine a kingdom in the Himalayas around nineteen hundred years ago. A reckless young poet who lives at the court falls passionately in love with the king s daughter . . . King Sundava uncovers the secret and immediately flings Chauras, the poet, into a dungeon. Throughout the dark night before he is to be executed, the poet writes about his love for Vidya, remembering each moment of their times together in ecstatic verses. Even now . . . fifty times he sings of their love. This, then, is the nature of Black Marigolds.The poem was written in Sanskrit but the verses were rendered into English by E. Powys Mathers in the early twentieth century and the poem was published in 1919 by Blackwell. It became as iconic as the poetry of Arthur Waley and Ezra Pound. Vernon Watkins regarded Black Marigolds as the most beautiful love poetry he knew and the poet s widow, Gwen, here writes a Preface.It was Vernon Watkins own poem Taliesin and the Mockers that brought The Old Stile Press together with Gwen Watkins and with Glenys Cour who did the magnificent images.Again for this book, Glenys Cour has used her techniques of collage, involving the use of black and white papers, some starkly contrasting, some with patterned, textured effects achieved with monotype and stippling. Bringing these together she creates an intense world filled with moonlight, flowers, courtyards with fountains and the sun disappearing into the sea . . . as the poet remembers the times when Vidya was beside him.The book is covered all over with a gently rippling green and grey patterned paper, and the binding has an enfolding flap presenting the reader with an image of Vidya which can be ever present as you read Chauras poems. Signed by Illustrator(s).