Paper Pennies and Other Poems; Supplication To The Himalayas, In The Yenan Caves; The Borrowed Gull; A Winnowing Silence; White; On The Death of Archbishop Broix; THE CRYING EMBERS; Words; Pilgrims and Petitions; Teller; Coronis; In Her Hands; Hands Twining Grasses; Spawning the Os; Yogh; Brevities; Rider and Horse; Conversations With a Captor; Winter's Night Knotting; The Knotting Sequence; The Earth Man Dreams of a Turned Sod; Calling With Owls; Bedfordshire Writer; The Dying; Making A Success Of A Small Press; Decadal; Devil's Wine; White

[U.K./U.S.]: [various], 1969-1977. First Edition. A significant collection of first editions by this distinguished writer. Chapbooks, cloth book in dustjacket, full leather book, pamphlets, and broadsides. PAPER PENNIES and Other Poems (signed - his rare first book; no.91 of 100); Supplication To The Himalayas. Sceptre Press, 1968 broadside (his second publication, signed by poet and illustrator, broadside no.13 of 50). IN THE YENAN CAVES. 1969, no.55 of 74 numbered. THE BORROWED GULL. 1970, no.19 of 74 numbered. WHITE. 1971, no.84 of 100 numbered. A WINNOWING OF SILENCE. 1971, no.106 of 180 numbered and signed. ONE THE DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP BROIX. 1971. THE CRYING EMBERS, Fuller D'arch Smith, 1971,1st binding, first collected. WORDS Broadsheet three, no.85 of 100 numbered. PILGRIMS AND PETITIONS. 1971. TELLER. 1972. (unsigned). TELLER. 1973. Inscribed to Robert Nye. CORONIS. 1973. Review copy with prospectus. IN HER HANDS [1973], no.31 of 50 numbered and signed, with inscription to Robert Nye. HANDS TWINING GRASSES. 1974. no.65 of 150 numbered copies; inscribed to Robert Nye. SPAWNING THE OS. 1974, no.201 of 350 numbered copies. YOGH. 1974, no.72 of 100 numbered copies, with poet's inscription and signature. BREVITIES (Cid Corman's design at Elizabeth Press). [1974], one of 300 copies; inscribed to Robert Nye. RIDER AND HORSE. 1976. THE KNOTTING SEQUENCE. [1977]. One of 500. THE EARTH MAN DREAMS OF A TURNED SOD. [1978], no.35 of 50 signed and numbered & no.140 of 150 numbered (of 200). THE DYING. [1978], no.40 of 50 numbered and signed. WINTER'S NIGHT [1979], no.49 of 50 numbered and signed; additional issue sent as holiday greeting. DECADAL: Ten Years of Sceptre Press. [1979]. Edited by Booth, no.4 of 300 copies; specially signed. CALLING WITH OWLS. [1979], no.2 of 100 numbered and signed. THE DEVIL'S WINE. 1980. Full leather, no.7 of 50 copies, signed. MARTIN BOOTH: Bedfordshire Writer. IN HER HANDS, 1973, pamphlets no.67 & no.105 of 150. CONVERSATIONS WITH A CAPTOR by Jean Overton Fuller & forward by Booth [1973], w/ Booth's inscription to Robert Nye. MAKING A SUCCESS OF A SMALL PRESS. Most published in the U.K., some U.S.. With FOUR TYPED LETTERS SIGNED AND ONE TYPED POSTCARD SIGNED to author Robert Nye dated from Dec. 1973, to March 1974. Good publishing, writing content having to do with reviewing, sending books off to London publishers, needing a job, paying the printer, suggesting a book of "porn-ography", etc. Nye, like Booth a prolific novelist and poet, was the poetry editor of The Scotsman and there are references made to it.

Booth began Sceptre Press in 1968. Himself a prize-winning poet, he late in his productive career became a best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist (A Very Private Gentleman from which the George Clooney Vehicle THE AMERICAN was made) and writer of nonfiction. His press published many of the best British poets, and eventually U.S. poets throughout the 70's. Many of these copies inscribed to Robert Nye his contemporary and fellow British poet and publisher. 37 items in total, including letters, ranging from Very Good to Fine, mostly Fine.