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James Elroy Flecker

Carr reported in his History of the QTP (1987) that he had published two impressions of poems by James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915). Three impressions have been seen, one probably issued after 1987. Flecker died of tuberculosis aged 30 years, in Switzerland.


(Last updated on 31/1/2021)



SBP-FLE1: First edition

Title: James Elroy Flecker

Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Milldale Road, Kettering

Year: (August 1975)

ISBN: (0900847603)

Size: 129 x 94 mm

Pages: 16

Staples: one

Binding: white printed glossy card covers

Paper: white

Editor: (J.L. Carr)

Cover artist: (J.L. Carr)

Internal illustrations: none

Number in series: not stated

Colophon: sun face 1964 with name above and address below

Telephone number: 4995

Printing history:

Number of other titles listed: 15

Printed by: Harry Richardson (Printers) Ltd., Water Street, Kettering

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Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)


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Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)


Content: Biography with dates; memorable lines. Poems: A ship, an isle, a sickle moon...; The golden journey to Samarkand; At the gates of the sun, Bagdad; Yasmin; The old ships; The town without a market; To a poet a thousand years hence; Stillness; Tenebris interlucentem.

Notes: The date of publication is taken from the date of the ISBN. It was issued in Mini-Poets series.

A copy of this edition in the British Library with an accession date of 26 Sep 75 (X.907.25052) has four blank pages: 6 and 7 and 10 and 11. The first edition of Wilfred Owen has the same pages blank, also printed by Harry Richardson.




SBP-FLE2: Second impression

Title: James Elroy Flecker

Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: (197?)

ISBN: none

Size: 128 x 92 mm

Pages: 16

Staples: two

Binding: white printed matt card covers

Paper: cream

Editor: (J.L. Carr)

Cover artist: (J.L. Carr)

Internal illustrations: several decorations and symbols throughout the text

Number in series: not stated

Colophon: sun face 1964

Telephone number: not stated

Printing history: not stated

Number of other titles listed: 49 (39 printed and 10 added by hand, below)

Printed by: none stated

Image of book

Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)


Image of book

Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)


Content: Biography with dates; memorable lines. Poems: A ship, an isle, a sickle moon...; The golden journey to Samarkand; At the gates of the sun, Bagdad; Yasmin; The old ships; The town without a market; To a poet a thousand years hence; Stillness; Tenebris interlucentem.

Notes: Carr redesigned the cover, but the content remained much the same.




SBP-FLE3: Third impression

Title: James Elroy Flecker

Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Milldale Road, Kettering

Year: (after 1987?)

ISBN: none

Size: 129 x 94 mm

Pages: 16

Staples: two

Binding: white printed glossy card covers

Paper: cream

Editor: (J.L. Carr)

Cover artist: (J.L. Carr)

Internal illustrations: several decorations and symbols throughout the textnone

Number in series: 92

Colophon: sun face 1964

Telephone number: not stated

Printing history: not stated

Number of other titles listed: none

Printed by: none stated

Image of book

Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)


Image of book

Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)


Content: Detailed biography, extracted from an unknown source. Poems: A ship, an isle, a sickle moon...; The golden journey to Samarkand; At the gates of the sun, Bagdad; Yasmin; To a poet a thousand years hence; Stillness; The old ships; The town without a market; Tenebris interlucentem.

Notes: Carr retained the same cover and colour, but changed the order of some poems. The book is numbered 92 in the series, the same number as impressions of Blake, Browning, Omar Khayyam and Kipling.