Lot 307

Porpoise Press Broadsheets

Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
£300
Description
[First series] Numbers 1-12, including a duplicate copy of no 1 [Five poems by F.V. Branford, signed by the author on upper wrapper]. 1922-1924; Second series, nos. 1-6. 1925-1926; Third series, nos. 1-6. 1926-1927; [Fourth series], nos. 1-6, including a duplicate copy of no. 5 [Cobweb and mustard-seed by W. Fraser Mitchell], 1927-1928, all original wrappers, some wrappers slightly dusty; and 4 Porpoise pamphlets (nos. 1-3 & duplicate of no. 1)
Footnote
Note: Rare. A complete set of Porpoise Press broadsheets. The Porpoise Press was established as a Scottish publishing house for original work. Its publications took the form of broadsheets, each restricted to the work of a single writer.
