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ADAM. Ed Miron GRINDEA . 1940(?) – 1981 (?)
Nos 153(1 st number issued in GB), -182, 184-201, 212-215, 219-226, 234, 238-250, 252, 255-260, 262-264, 268-270, 275-281. 289-339, 349-363, 367-369, 376-378, 397-403, 407-415, 419-421, 425-442, 446-448,
452-462, 481-492, 498- 499.
There are special issues on Dylan Thomas, Quasimodo, L P Harley, H G Wells,
G B Shaw, Brecht, Proust, etc. Among the many contributions are E Waugh,
D Gascoyne, A Powell, E Nuir, Upton Sinclair, Gide, Dylan Thomas,
R Macaulay, Wallace Stevens, V Woolf, H Read, C Day Lewis, J Hanley,
G S Fraser, W S Churchill, H G Wells, W De La Mare, R West, J Lindsay,
N Cunard, K Mansfield, Cocteau, Valery, Eluard, Claudel, E M Forster, etc, etc.
111 issues, in original wraps in very good condition, of this cosmopolitan magazine.
Included also is 8pp pamphlet advertising the 21 st issue and SOVIET Literature, Art, Music edited by Grindea published by the Practical Press in 1942.
& an ALS from Grindea enquiring about “our dear O S”. £700.00

156-157. March-April 1946. Tribute to Herman OULD by De La Mare, Storm Jameson, R Macaulay & D Saurat who also contributes an article on Paul Vaelery.
Poems by Countee Cullen, D Gascoyne, H Manning & M Carpenter.
Other contributions by M Lerner, P-J Jouve, G Duhamel, V Katayev & A Kerr. £10.00

164/165, Nov-Dec 1946. Articles by K Raine (on G Greene), J Heath-Stubbs (Pasternak); J Lindsay on The Day of Wrath. E W Martin (T Hardy). L P Fargue (Colette), etc. Poems by H Manning, H Nicholson, N Cunard, D Stanford, etc £12.00

182. May 1948. T S Eliot-The Hollow Men-two versions translated into French.
G S Fraser on Mr Eliot & the Great Cats; H Manning on Philip Toynbee,
Poems by E Sitwell, J Supervielle, K Rexroth. Gide, D Saurat; etc. £12.00

200. Nov 1949. (T S Eliot - The Aims of Poetic Drama: E M Forster on C Mauron: J Lehmann-On being an Editor; L Huddleston-poem on the poetry of Dylan Thomas, Play by A Spire; poems by E Allen Poe transalted into French by Felix Rose; etc. De La Mare-poem, etc.) Cover by Ronald Searle. £17.50

212/213, Nov-Dec 1950 . Issue devoted to the work of Joyce Cary with “ A Novel is a Novel “ by Cary . B E Owen on Cary 's novels. The Novelist at work, a conversation between J Cary & David Cecil. Sketch of Cary on the cover by N Bentley. £15.00

219/221. 1951. Picasso at Seventy with articles on him by H Read, R Penrose & P Eluard.& a poem by Picasso. Paris in Literature from Julius Caesar to C Connolly, with extracts from the work of Thomas Coryat; R Le Gallienne-poem;
Charles Dickens(A Wine shop in the Sr Antoine),; etc. £12.50

234. 1953. Am I really 21? G Duhamel, J Cocteau, G S Fraser, I Fletcher, R Lehmann, P Russell, C Day Lewis, T S Eliot, J Cassou, D MacCarthy, B Russell, G S Fraser, G Mikes, P Ustinov, etc. all contribute. This issue also contains the
V.1/3 of COLONADE with poems by R Bottrall & M Macinnes. £15.00

238. 1953. Dylan Thomas Memorial Number with 2 chapters prepublication from"Adventures in the Skin Trade". & contributions from P H Johnson (Memoir of Dylan Thomas); E Sitwell, J Davenport, G Barker, H Macdiarmid, S Spender, Augustus John, P Emmanuel, M Ayrton, R Campbell, P Emmanuel, S Macleod, I Stravinsky, W S Merwin. £20.00

244/246. 1954. Articles on Rimbaud by G Duhamel, E Starkie , V Underwood, H Thomas & C Legagneux. Etc. £7.00

248/249. 1955. Double issue devoted to Hans Christian Anderson with articles on him by Auden, J De Lacretelle, Cocteau, Supervielle, C A Trypanis, etc. examples of his work & an exchange of correspondence betwenn Andersen & C Dickens including a letter in facsimile from Andersen. £15.00

268/270. 1958. H Read-Art into Life. Poems by P Albert-Birot & D Slee.
E Warington-Smyth-London Village-a novel-part2. £6.00

301/303. 1966. Three Evocations of E Waugh:- A Memoir by A Powell-3pp; H Acton- The Artist & The Friend by J Sutro with a pen drawing by Waugh on the cover & a note (printed in the text) by Waugh stating that he was unable to contribute. D Pryce-Jones on G Greene's Human Comedy; K Raine, W Sansom . £15.00

304/306. 1968. (G Greene-The Return of the Novelist. The rest of the issue being devoted to " Sweden in Literature." £15.00

307/309. 1966. (Gordon Craig at Home by E Craig. Poems by E Fried, A Goossens, N Sachs, G Ekelot, M Salzer, etc. Articles by D Paterson , S Y Agnon, L Goldberg, etc. £6.00

310/312. 1966. Proust après Painter with articles on him by by D Richardson, P B Wadsworth, H Gregory, P Hansford Johnson, Angus Wilson, G D Painter, E Fould , R I Odle, L Gautier-VigC Briand, etc.) £8.00

313/315. 1967. Issue devoted mainly to "The Voice of Canada" with poems by I Layton, R Lasner, L Cohen, A Nowlan, D Wevil, G Miron, A Herbert, D Livesay, D Hill, D Gutteridge, A W Purdy, E Birney, R Gustafon, N Levine, G Woodcock, etc. £8.00

319/321. 1967. (Issue devoted to Ramuz with articles on him by Anne-Marie Monnet, Editor, J Mouton, F Auberjonois, H Peyre, G Roud, F MacKenzie, M Stansbury, G Guisan, R T Sussex, G Parsons, etc. Poem for him by Cocteau; l
etters from Stravinsky about him together with letters from Ramuz
and an articles by him. Illustrated with sketches and photos. £15.00

322/324. 1967. Picasso-Ten poems. Harriet Waugh-Voices-short story. Gongora - Then People may laugh-adapted by Hugo Manning. 8 stories, one essay & a fable by Urmuz translated by M & C Grindea. Monika Mann, P Durcan & I Cutler. £12.00

331-333. 1969. Articles on Baudelaire by W T Bandy, M Hamburger & M Rybalka with new translations of some of his work. Articles on Berlioz by H Macdonald, H Berlioz, J R Eliot, M Wright, E Holmes, etc.
Balzac, Dickens and “this Harsh World” by B M Schilling;
Ffacsimile portraits of both Baudelaire & Berlioz by M Ayrton. etc.£6.00

337-339. 1970. Four writers and Music:-Bernard Shaw, Andre Gide,
Samuel Becket & David Gascoyne. Articles include C Connolly, R Mortimer,
P Hoy, M Edwards, P De Boisdeffre all on Gide; whilst M Mihalovici, J Weiss,
J Calder, M Bakewell, M Hutchinson, R Johnson & H Manning write on Beckett. £10.00

376/378, 1973. The Negritude-a Twentieth Century Humanism by L S Sengher .
Literature of Senegal , article on O'Neill & Collette. £5.00

397/400. 1977. 400th issue devoted to The London Library . A Powell-Anniversary, a 3 line tribute; S O'Faolain, J M Barrie, C Wilson, H James, R Fuller, E O'Brien, E Gosse, G Moore, T E Lawrence, A Huxley, A Wilson, etc. Cover by N Bentley. Drawings by E Ardizzone & M Lasserson. Later reprinted in book form. £15.00

397/400. 1977. THE LONDON LIBRARY 1978. Dw. Hard covers. First bookform. A Powll celebrates the anniversary of the Library with a 3 line tribute.
Other contributors include S O'Faolain, J M Barrie, T E Lawrence, C Wilson, H James, R Fuller, E O'Brien, E Gosse, G Moore, A Huxley, A Wilson,
E Ardizzonne, C Wilson, S O'Faolain, etc. Cover by N Bentley. £17.50

425/427. 1980. Poems by K Bosley(4), J Ficovski, D Cooper, C Del Monte &
5 Zyrian Folk poems.etc. G Mikes-Coffee Houses in Central Europe .
Rebuilding the Ark by F Auberjonois-illustrated.
2 articles on C Isherwood by L Smith & P Burton. P Guth on N Boulanger, etc. £8.00

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