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NOTE: ALL COPIES NOW GONE

Fifty years ago, as Matrix Press, I hand-set, printed and published a few small books of poetry. Going through old boxes this week I found some sets of pages of two of them — Anselm Hollo’s History (with drawings by Ken Lansdowne and Gregory Corso) and Edward Dorn’s From Gloucester Out (with a two-colour illustration by Barry Hall) — enough to make 10 copies of each. This morning I collated, hand-sewed (the originals were stapled) and trimmed the copies in this picture. Although a few of the signed editions turn up occasionally, ridiculously priced, the ordinary copies available are fewer: and when they appear they are priced around £40/$60. When I started printing and publishing my aim was to make work available rather than to make a great profit. I’ll sew and trim them all this weekend and sell them on a first-come first-served basis at £15 or $25 each, including postage. Allowing for a half-century of inflation this is almost the original price in 1963/1964.

There is a yellow DONATE button (used only three or four times in the several years it has been there) in the right-hand menu which will take you to PayPal where you can pay for your order. You’ll need to send me an email (raworthATgmail.com) at the same time with the book(s) you want and your name and address.

LATER NOTE: The PayPal account is set to US dollars as the default currency. My apologies to anyone wanting to pay in pounds sterling. You can enter 25 dollars and it should work.

I’ll pin this entry at the top of the page for a week.