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Title

The girls / Christopher Logue.

Author

Logue, Christopher, 1926-2011.

Publication

London : B. Stone, 1969.

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Details

Additional Authors

Daedalus Press.

Description

[1], 21, [1] leaves; 30 cm.

Subject

• Erotic poetry, English

Note

• "Limited edition of 50 copies only, of which 26 signed lettered copies, A-Z, are reserved for the author, and 24 signed copies only, numbered 1-24, are for sale."--Colophon.
• Printed on rectos only, at Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Christopher Logue contributed to the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 1970s, a modernist-inspired reaction to the prevailing, more conservative approach to poetry in Britain. Logue was also a playwright, screenwriter, and actor, and wrote under the pseudonym Count Palmiro Vicarion for the Ophelia Press (Paris), his ouevre including the Book of Bawdy Ballads (1957) and the pornographic novel Lust (1959).

Binding (note)

• Issued in silken cloth-covered boards of black, red, tan, and brown in a swirling pattern, with leather spine gilt stamped with title and author's name.

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Logue G57 1969

OCLC

4327498

Author

Logue, Christopher, 1926-2011.

Title

The girls / Christopher Logue.

Imprint

London : B. Stone, 1969.

Access

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Biography

Christopher Logue contributed to the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 1970s, a modernist-inspired reaction to the prevailing, more conservative approach to poetry in Britain. Logue was also a playwright, screenwriter, and actor, and wrote under the pseudonym Count Palmiro Vicarion for the Ophelia Press (Paris), his ouevre including the Book of Bawdy Ballads (1957) and the pornographic novel Lust (1959).

Binding

Issued in silken cloth-covered boards of black, red, tan, and brown in a swirling pattern, with leather spine gilt stamped with title and author's name.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy is "N," and in addition to the author's signature on colophon page, is signed and inscribed in black pen by the poet to the author and antiquarian John Michell, on the title page, dated "Aug '81"; with autograph letter from Logue to Michell laid in, dated Oct. 8, 1981, beginning, "I thought you might like a copy of The Girls; the version in Ode to the Dodo is shorter."

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Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Logue G57 1969