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Oxford : Carcanet Press, (1969). First edition. Signed by Michael Schmidt on the title-page. Loosely inserted is a 1992 signed typed letter from Schmidt on Carcanet notepaper referring to the book as being "from the original 'signed edition' that we did yonks ago". His first book - a collection of twenty poems.
Crown 8vo. 30,[ii]pp. Original plain white wrappers; very good in the original red dust-jacket, printed in black.

£20

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Oxford : Sycamore Press, (1970). First edition. Signed by Michael Schmidt. Three poems.
Post 8vo. Single white sheet, printed in red and black, folding to form three leaves; lightly creased, but a nice copy.

£15

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Oxford : Carcanet Press, (1970). First edition : the wraps issue. Inscribed and signed by Michael Schmidt on the title-page. A collection of forty-four poems.
Demy 8vo. (62),[ii]pp. Original wrappers - a design in black and tan on white - lightly rubbed, but a good copy.

£10

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London : Anvil Press Poetry, (1972). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies signed by Michael Schmidt. A collection of seventeen poems.
Demy 8vo. 24pp. Original monochrome wrappers, with a photography by Pip Benveniste; some slight spotting, but otherwise a very good copy.

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Oxford : Carcanet Press, (1972). First edition : the hardback issue. Signed by Michael Schmidt and with one (presumably authorial) manuscript deletion of a word. An early collection twenty-nine poems.
Demy 8vo. Very good indeed in slightly worn and chipped dust-jacket.

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Manchester : Carcanet Press, (1976). First edition. Signed by Michael Schmidt on the title-page. An introductory anthology to some of the younger poets - William Bedford, Charles Boyle, Keith Chandler, Alistair Elliot, Grevel Lindop, Neil Powell, Gareth Reeves, Michael Vince, Robert Wells and Clive Wilmer.
Demy 8vo. 92,[iv]pp. Original white wrappers, lettered and decorated with a Samuel Palmer design in blue; a little marked and used; labels of the Arts Council Poetry Library on prelims, but a good copy.

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London : Anvil Press Poetry, (1978). First edition. Signed by Michael Schmidt on the title-page. A collection of nineteen poems.
Demy 8vo. (70),[ii]pp. Original white wrappers, lettered in red and balck and with a design by Marilyn Covo Schmidt; wrappers lightly spotted, but otherwise very good.

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London : Frederick Muller, (1980). First edition. Signed by Michael Schmidt on the title-page. Fiction - based on his childhood in Mexico.
Demy 8vo. (126),[ii]pp. Original black boards, lettered down spine in gilt; top edge and endpapers spotted, otherwise very good in the original pictorial dust-jacket (taken from a mural by Diego Rivera) - just faintly sunned.

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London : Anvil Press Poetry, (1983). First edition. Inscribed and signed by Michael Schmidt on the title-page. Twenty-three new poems, along with with thirty-five selected from earlier collections.
Demy 8vo. (96)pp. Original white wrappers, lettered and decorated in black and tan; very good.

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London : Century Hutchinson & Co., (1989). First edition. Signed by Michael Schmidt on the title-page. A poem in twenty parts.
Post 8vo. [ii],58,[iv]pp. Original pictorial wrappers - a design by Salim Patell in purple, lavender, red and white - very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.

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