Seeing Shelley Plain: Memories of York’s Legendary Phoenix Book Shop. (Inscribed and Signed)

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First trade edition; warmly inscribed by the author on the title-page to a fellow bibliophile. “The memoirs of Robert Wilson, owner of the legendary Phoenix Book Shop, is a fascinating and humorous account of the literary scene between 1960 and 1980. The book chronicles the author’s long friendships with some of the literary giants of the 20th century such as Marianne Moore, and W.H. Auden, and provides mini-biographies of many famous Beat Generation poets including Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. Illustrated with dozens of previously unpublished photographs from the author’s private collection, showing celebrated authors and poets from this exciting era in literary history.” (Publisher’s blurb)

Price: $45.00