tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post9065373816989509466..comments2024-01-27T01:51:07.872-08:00Comments on Jot101: Reggie Caton (R.A. Caton of Fortune Press)Jot101http://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-19641369468509673722014-07-12T14:20:32.311-07:002014-07-12T14:20:32.311-07:00Raymond Tong did 3 collections of poetry with Cato...Raymond Tong did 3 collections of poetry with Caton's Fortune Press in 1942, 1946 and the last called 'Angry Decade 1940-1950' came out undated in 1951. Your poem could be in one of those 3 books - a few show on abebooks.com. Good luck.Jot101https://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-27730857939073295652014-07-12T09:04:53.330-07:002014-07-12T09:04:53.330-07:00Correction to my previous post - name should be Ra...Correction to my previous post - name should be Raymond Tong (not Yong).Pinomanukhttp://www.conts.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-4852582063706510772014-07-12T08:59:51.535-07:002014-07-12T08:59:51.535-07:00For many years I have been trying to locate the so...For many years I have been trying to locate the source of a poem I copied into an old notebook some 65 years ago! Yes, that is not a misprint! It was called Death of a Partisan and apparently was part of a longer verse called Salute to Greece. I did not know the poet. This was decades pre-Google. Recently I discovered the notebook and Google suggests it might be Raymond Yong, but nowhere can I obtain he slim book of verse entitled Salute to Greece. Does anyone know of it, and if it contains the section entitled Death of a Partisan - which begins "Suddenly music burst out of his wounds . . ."Pinomanukhttp://www.conts.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-39630164849561281052014-06-17T16:17:39.238-07:002014-06-17T16:17:39.238-07:00Yes. Aubrey Fowkes and Esmond Quinterley were the ...Yes. Aubrey Fowkes and Esmond Quinterley were the same person, real name Richard Vere Cripps, the author of, I think, 23 books none of them issued under his own name. I guess his identity was kept secret to avoid embarrassing his family but since his sister died in 2004 I see no need for further obfuscationKerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10906697197001353206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-80136356587885791132014-06-08T09:06:40.588-07:002014-06-08T09:06:40.588-07:00Thanks very much.Thanks very much.Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-27491465536797570932014-06-06T18:15:41.089-07:002014-06-06T18:15:41.089-07:00I think Rota bought a big load of Fortune Press ba...I think Rota bought a big load of Fortune Press back in the 1970s and a lot of it entered the London trade so one continually saw books by Fowkes and Quinterley (same bloke?) and poetry sections in second hand shops were stuffed with their slim vols. Later Any Amount got a load from Scotland and after that Delectus. The Rota note is probably reliable and based on trade lore or even observation but Tim D'Arch Smith's bibliography may nail it/Jot101https://www.blogger.com/profile/04163335378108954329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740569507462865624.post-82226021232771108472014-06-06T13:07:09.890-07:002014-06-06T13:07:09.890-07:00Big ups to the British Kahane (or Girodias)! I hav...Big ups to the British Kahane (or Girodias)! I have a copy of the Fortune Press publication of Against the Grain bound in what looks like vellum. The limitation of the entire publication is claimed to be 250 (although I'm not sure if Caton was as unreliable as his French counterparts in this respect). Anyone have any idea what the limitation on the vellum issue was? A bookseller (Rota maybe) has written "1 of 25?" in my copy but anyone know for sure? Much appreciated. Jimnoreply@blogger.com