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THE BLUE REVIEW.
Ed J M MURRY & K MANSFIELD.
1913. Nos. 1-3 .
An illustrated monthly magazine of literature, drama, art & music.
This magazine superseded Rhythm & included amongst its contributors
D H Lawrence, Beerbohm, W H Davies, W de La Mare, W W Gibson,
H Walpole, T E Flecker, E Marsh, R Brooke & the editors, etc.
All issues in very good condition in an attractive full leather volume with
front & rear wraps bound in. Loosely inserted 4pp-brochure/order form.
Rare as a set, particularly in such good condition. All published. £325.00
NIGHT AND DAY.
Ed. G GREENE AND JOHN MARKS.
Nos 1-21.23-26 . 1937.
A Weekly Magazine of short stories, poems, articles, critical reviews of books, theatre, cinema, etc. Within the compass of these issues can be found a host of promising authors & illustrators who have since achieved considerable reputations:- G Greene -film critic; E Waugh -literary editor -in every issue:
A Powell, J Betjeman, C Isherwood, T F Powys, C Connolly, H Miller, A Huxley,
C Norden(L Durrell), P Hansford Johnson, V S Pritchett, W Empson, H Read, Stevie Smith, O Lancaster, Ardizzone, N Bentley, E Fraser, R Macaulay, G Kersh,
A J Symons, M Roberts, F Prokosch, Topolski,etc.
The magazine ceased publication owing to the famous libel action brought by MGM on behalf of Shirley Temple, whom Greene was alleged to have insulted in his review of a film adaptation of Kipling's Wee Willie Winkie.
.5 out of the 26 issues of this scarce periodical in original wraps: no 1 being stained, the rest in good condition although one or two are frayed. £1,300.00
LONDON MERCURY.
Ed J C SQUIRE then later R A SCOTT-JAMES.
v.1/1-v.39/234. 1919-1939. All published.
During its twenty years of publication this journal printed original poems, stories, illustrations, bibliographies and critical evaluations, etc. not only by established writers but by many who have since made their reputations. Practically every issue contains its quota of notable contributors& the contents are generally substantial & significant. Contributors include D H Lawrence, J Conrad, G K Chesterton,
F Madox Ford, A Huxley, S Spender, V Woolf, T Hardy, R Graves, E Waugh,
R Campbell, N Moore, W Carlos Williams, E Sitwell, Beerbohm, M Peake,
H Belloc, Wyndham Lewis, D L Sayers, P Valery, Kafka, etc.
234 issues in original wraps as issued.
A complete set-very scarce in very good condition. £1450.00
(the reprint of this periodical sells at $3250.00!)
ART AND LITERATURE. An International Quarterly.
Ed J ASHBERRY. Nos 1-12. March 1964-Spring 1967 . Switzerland.
(F O'Hara, W Burroughs, A Burgess, David Jones, G Bataille, J R Ackerley,
Jean Rhys, C Connolly, F Rolfe, P Bowles, Spender, Genet, Pasternak, A Masson,
Rilke, M Jacob, N Tucci, D Shapiro, R Barthes, F O'Hara, R Bly,etc.)
All 12 issues in original wraps. all published in this series. £300.00
TWO CITIES.
Ed J FRANCHETTE. Nos 1-9. 1959-64 .
A complete set of an independent review which set out to boost Durrell's talent.
The first number "Hommage a Lawrence Durrell" contains articles on his work by
H Miller, A Perles, F J Temple, R Aldington & an interview "On Mount Olive" by
E Mullens Later issues contain Durrell's new preface to the Black Book;
Letters from Dylan Thomas; Letters to J Franchette & Poems. Other contributors include A Nin, Delteil, Snow, Bolt, Aragon, Golding, Huxley, K Tynan, Rilke, Ehrenberg, etc.
9 numbers in 8. All published in very good condition. £50.00
THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS.
Ed. J R NEWMAN. 1960. Vols.1-4 .
A small library of the literature of Mathematics from A'h-Mose the Scribe to Albert Einstein, with commentaries & notes by J R Newman. 4 volumes in slip box.
Library stamp on front end paper. (H W Turnbull, O Lodge, R Descartes, E T Bell,
J M Keynes, B Russell, I Newton, G Galilei, L A Brown, A S Eddington.) £60.00
TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW. New York.
Ed J F McCRINDLE et Al .
No.1-60. 1959-1976 (last issue)
One of the outstanding literary magazines of recent years devoted almost
exclusively to the publication of poetry & fiction, including the work of new writers.
Contributors include S Beckett, J Carol Oates, M Peake, J Updike, M Spark,
A Sillitoe, Sylvia Plath, W H Auden, J Fowles, L Borges, A Burgess, H Miller,
R S Thomas, R Wilbur, W Burroughs, T Hughes, I Murdoch, B Deutsch, R Todd,
P Creagh, D MacDonagh,W H Auden, Eugene Walter, Scott Turow, etc. )
60 issues in original wraps all in very good condition-the cover of the first
issue being a little foxed. Separate index for issues 1-60 included. £500.00
ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
(Modern Humanities Research Association, G.B.)
Ed J HORDEN & J B MISENFEIMER, A MacDONALD, L BROUGHTON et al. v.21 (1940); v.34 (1959) - v.47 (1972); v.50 (1975) - v.53 (1978)
Some ex library but all in very good condition. 19 Vols. Sections include
Bibliography, Biography, Language, Speech, Grammars & Dictionaries,
Vocabulary, Syntax, Punctuation & Handwriting, Ancillary Studies & Literature
with sections from Old English to Twentieth Century & indexes of Authors &
Subjects Treated, Contributory Authors & Anonymous Works. £380.00
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