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BOOKS & BOOKMEN. A Monthly Illustrated Magazine devoted entirely to books, authors & illustrators, incorporating John O'London's Books in Britain .
vol 1/1-vol 25/9 (No 297), Oct 1955-June 1980 (lacks 15 issues for a complete run) Amongst the considerable number of contributors of original articles, reviews & interviews are W Sansom, E Blunden, R Bolt, O'Faolain, B Brophy, J Baldwin, I Murdoch, K Amis, J Betjeman, P Hansford Johnson, W Cooper, W Golding, M Spark, Somerset Maugham, J Steinbeck, I Fleming, J Braine, G Greene, A Sillitoe, E Sitwell, H E Bates, N Mailer, W Saroyan, M Algren,
D Lessing, J P Donleavey, S Barstow, S Bellow, E O'Brien, A Wilson, H Green,
P Beer, F Swinnerton, E Caldwell, C Wilson, R Penn Warren, S Beckett, J Updike,
Compton Mackenzie, C P Snow, J Grenfell, J Lehmann, H Acton, R Greacen,
M Drabble, C Causley, H Sergeant, Paul Scott, E Manning, etc.
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1955 Oct. (J Lehmann-Personality of the Month; J B Priestley-Dangerous Journey - 1pp illustrated; D Millwood on Priestley; D Lessing-Spotlighting Suburbia; R Church on F Brett Young; V Holland on Law & Obscenity, etc) £10.00
1955 Nov. (V Holland on Wilde; G S Fraser on F R Leavis; P Hutchins on L A G Strong's works; D H Lawrence; etc.) £6.00
Nov 1955. (Portrait of a Murderer by L A G Strong; P Hutchins on L A G Strong;
G S Fraser on D H Lawrence , etc.) £6.00
1955 Dec. (A Christie by L Harris; R Greacen at the Cheltenham Festival; J Wain on Critics; E Blyton - Old Books and New.) £8.00
1956 Jan. (W S Maugham & S Spender interviewed; A Wilson reviews G Greene;
P Hutchins on Wyndham Lewis; etc.) £6.00
1956 Feb. (S T Warner-Personality of the Month; J Davenport assesses G reene;
G W Stonier interviewed; etc.) £5.00
1956 March. (C Day Lewis-A Tangled Web; M Whitbread on C Day Lewis;
A Koestler interviewed;etc.) £6.00
1956 April. (I Murdoch-Personality of the Month; D Lessing by M Sayers;
M Richler on American writers in Paris; R Church-The Dangerous Years.) £6.00
1956 May. (I Fleming-Personality of the Month; H E Bates-The Man and the Storyteller by J Braddock; J Arlott on Cricket; M McCarthy-A Charmed Life; etc.) £10.00
1956 June. (E Ambler-Personality of the Month; W R Rodgers & C Thomas on
J M Brinnin's Dylan Thomas in America; W S Churchill writes history by P D Whitting; D Wheatley-Author At Work; etc.) £5.00
1956 July. (H Innes by V R J Clinton; G Durrell on The Traveller as Writer; C Wilson-The Outsiders; G Fielding's In the Time of Greenbloom; etc.) £5.00
1956 Aug. (L Golding on Travel & the Novelist; A Beale on D H Lawrence-The Traveller; J Courage-The Call Home; E Berridge reviews three novels; J Reeves on W de la Mare (pp). £5.00
1956 Sept. (C P Snow-Personality of the Month; W Taylor on E Linklater;
A Calder-Marshall on Novelists; Article by J Brooke-The Snob Tradition; J C Hall on Poets; etc.) £8.00
1956 Oct. (N Monsarrat-Personality of the Month; W Cooper on "Howards End";
A Koestler by K Collier; etc.) £8.00
1956 Nov. (A Huxley-Personality of the Month; J Atkins on J M Barrie; Byron As A Case for Freud by M Elwin; J Pudney on The Short Story; L Durrell reviews G Durrell; The Sea as a Blind Force by J Hanley; etc.) £8.00
1956 Xmas. (D Hughes on Sansom, "He made the truth amusing"; P Green on D H Lawrence; C C Ramsay on E Blyton; S Gibbons, N Bentley, J Atkins, R Moore, J Silkin.) £5.00
8 January 1957. The Charm of Skating by H E Bates. E Shanks on Peel & the Tories. £10.00
1957 Feb. (C Morgan-Personality of the Month; R West by VRJ Clinton; J Symons on Crime Fiction; J Brophy discusses success; "Justine"-Book of the Month by L Durrell; J Laver; D J Enright-Author at Work; etc.) £8.00
1957 Mar. (A Pain on D Du Maurier; J Atkins on R Kipling; Book of the Month-The Mandarins- S De Beauvoir; etc.) £5.00
1957 Apr. (H M Tomlinson-Personality of the Month; A Pain on E Williams; P Frankau discusses success; Book of the Month. The Legion of the Damned by Sven Hassel including information about the Author; J Atkinson, Mark Twain; D Stanford on Dostoievsky & Gogol, etc.) £5.00
June 1957. (B Russell-Personality of the Month; Nevil Shute by A Calder-Marshall; C Bronte by J Atkins; O Blakeston on Anthony Hope; L P Hartley interviewed; C Thomas-extracts from her book; The Sea by J Hanley; etc.) £5.00
1957 July. (E Waugh interviewed; J Atkins on F Madox Ford; H E Bates on Success; Book of the Month-R Davies; etc.) £10.00
1957 Aug. (Personality of the Month-A Thirkell; G B Stern on Success; J Atkins on A Lang; N R Longmate on V Brittain.) £5.00
1957 Nov. (J B Priestley-Personality of the Month; F Sagan by V R J Clinton; S Barstow on Success; J Atkins on T E Lawrence; A Powell-Author at Work; etc.) £10.00
1957 Dec. (E Ardizzone-Personality of the Month; D Hughes on H E Bates; J Symons; etc.) £8.00
1958 Jan. (T H Allen on D H Lawrence's birthplace; Book of the Month A Maclean's South by Java Head; R Gant on E Caldwell ; D Stanford, etc.) £5.00
1958 Feb. (Personality of the Month-W Faulkner; J Braine on K Amis; J Wyndham-article; Paul Scott on R Graves; etc.) £8.00
1958 Apr. (Article on J Wain; H Miller-Too Hot to Handle-by E Moon; etc.) £5.00
1958 May. (A Pain on A P Herbert; A Wilson interviewed by M Millgate 5pp; etc.) £5.00
1958 Jun. (Personality of the Month-J Symons; article by D du Maurier; F O'Connor interviewed by A Whittier;etc.) £10.00
1958 Jul. (Book of the Month-The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates; F O'Connor on Hemingway, Joyce, A Wilson & Faulkner; J Hanley reviewed by A Bloomfield; etc.) £8.00
1958 Aug. (Moment of Success-R Godden; W Faulkner interviewed.) £5.00
1958 Sep. (I Feel a Fraud-C S Forester; N Shute interviewed; W Faulkner on how he became an author; etc.) £6.00
1958 Oct. (Article by A Sillitoe; Moment of Success-N Jacob; Book of the Month-Anatomy of a Murder by R Traver; E Caldwell discusses his life & work; interview with J Steinbeck; etc.) £6.00
1958 Nov. (P Frankau-article; Interviews-B Behan & E Caldwell; The Art of Autobiography by R Church; R Croft-Cooke on Success; A Pain on E Waugh; etc) £5.00
1958 Dec. (Book of the Month-The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot by A Wilson; My Moment of Success by N Streatfield; etc.) £6.00
1959 Feb. A Koestler-Personality of the Month. Somerset Maugham's Scrapbook - a Miscellany to mark his 85th birthday. V Brome on Frank Harris. A Huxley's transition from cynical novelist to prophet of doom with his portrait on the cover. G Wagner on the differences between American & British attitudes to books. £8.00
1959 Mar. (R Llewellyn-Personality of the Month; Review of Nabokov's Dozen; B Glanville on M McCarthy; R Fuller discusses a Writing Career; etc.) £5.00
1959 Apr. (E Phillpots-Personality of the Month; D Elliott on Books That Shocked;Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness; M Spark on "Memento Mori"; C Cookson-inspired by Elinor Glyn; Cover photo of I Fleming & review of"Goldfinger"; etc.) £8.00
1959 May. (Books That Shocked-Elinor Glyn-and Sin; M Edelman-Make your Reader work; etc.) £5.00
1959 June. (Personality of the Month-S Sitwell; How I wrote The Scapegoat by D Du Maurier; De Beauvoir's Autobiography; E M Forster interview; Henderson The Rain King by S Bellow etc.) £8.00
1959 Jul. (T S Eliot-Personality of The Month; Fandango Rock by J Masters; Appreciation of J Thurber; etc.) £6.00
1959 Aug. (Unhappy Vocation by G Simenon; Proletarion Novelists by A Sillitoe;
D Elliott on Dr M Stopes;etc.) £6.00
1959 Sep. (K Dick on I Compton-Burnett; W Cooper on the Future of Fiction; J Creasey on literary critics; J Gaskell interviews D Wheatley; etc.) £10.00
1959 Oct. (W Golding-The Meaning of it All; Howard Spring-Inspiration in a Train; D Rees on J O'Hara; The Novel is Suffocating Itself by W Graham; J P Carstairs on his three careers; R Henrey on A De Cespedes; etc.) £8.00
1959 Nov. (Moment of Success by J Braine; J Plaidy on History & The Novel;
R Church-The Regional Novel; I Love to Shock-B Aldiss; C Barnett on A Bryant;
Article by N Monsarrat; Review by R Fainlight; D Elliott on J T Farrell; Letter from Sillitoe. V Brome on G B Shaw versus H G Wells.) £6.00
1959 Dec. (The Art of Fiction-D Parker; J Pudney-The British Short Story; Interview-S Gibbons; Article on Joyce; etc.) £6.00
1959 Dec. (Kay Dick, A Discussion with A Moravia; Lady Chatterley-How Lawrence wrote it by his wife Frieda) £6.00
1960 Jan. (Birth of a Novel by J Steinbeck; Article by H Innes; Interview with R P Warren; etc.) £7.00
1960 Feb. (Interview with L Durrell; O Manning discusses her writing technique; D Elliott on H Miller; etc.) £8.00
1960 Mar. (Personality of the Month-C Dane; T Greenwell on C Wilson; D Elliot-The Ego of H Miller; F Sagan-interview; Author at Work-R Timperley; etc.) £6.00
1960 May. (R Graves by A Sillitoe;I Fleming interviewed..) £6.00
1960 Jun. (Interview with N Marsh; Book of the Month-J Pudney; Author's Ingratitude by S Unwin; etc.) £5.00
1960 July. (I Norrie on A Powell, whose portrait is on front cover; A Britton interviews L Cooper; etc.) £5.00
1960 Aug. ( S Barstow -A Kind of Loving; Interview with C Gaskin; M Robson on Upton Sinclair; etc.) £6.00
1960 Sep. (R F Delderfield interviewed; Life with Lawrence by F Lawrence; etc.) £5.00
1960 Oct. ( Paul Scott on M Spark; M Kennedy on the Literary Establishment;
T Allen visits Cecil Roberts; etc.) £8.00
1960 Nov. (Tradition in Retreat by P Hansford Johnson; N Jacob's Advice to New Authors; etc.) £6.00
1960 Dec. (Discussion with A Moravia; C C Ramsay on R Crompton; A Britton interviews G Mikes; etc.) £6.00
1961 Feb. (Book of the Month-W Cooper's Scenes from Married Life; etc.) £6.00
1961 Mar. (Interview with Monica Dickens; etc.) £5.00
1961 April. (W S Maugham: A Profile by J & K Singer; etc.) £5.00
1961 May. (Personality of the Month-S Jameson; Authors at Work-C Macinnes & Isobel English; etc.) £5.00
1961 Jun. (A Novelist's Notebook by Pamela Frankau; Review of R Godden's China Court; etc.) £5.00
1961 Jul. (W Graham, D Wheatley, M Edelman, G Household, W Haggard & G Fairlie discuss thriller writing; Creating Character by P Frankau; etc.) £6.00
1961 Aug. (Getting The Plot By P Frankau; etc.) £5.00
1961 Sep. (Personality of the Month-J Masters; The Use of Words-article by P Frankau; etc.) £5.00
1961 Oct. (A Sillitoe-an interview with the Editor; Carson McCullers by E O'Brien; Discussion with E Hemingway; etc.) £10.00
1961 Dec. (Cover illus:"A Christmas Carol" by R Searle.) £5.00
1962 Jan. (N Balchin & J Thurber interviewed; etc.) £5.00
1962 Feb. (Article by S Jameson; The Book Trade by C MacInnes.) £5.00
1962 Mar. (A Wilson attacks C P Snow; Paul Scott on K Farrell; R Bury-C Isherwood; P Bentley by L Cooper) Cover torn. £5.00
1962 April. (The Art of Fiction by W S Maugham 6pp; Articles on D Du Maurier & J Hanley; I Norrie reviews A Huxley; R Bury on R Chandler; E Waugh-portrait;
Discussion-J Wain.) £10.00
1962 May. (W S Maugham on C Dickens; The Short Story by H E Bates,A Sillitoe & P Gallico; A Lejeune on Paul Scott.) £10.00
1962 June. (Article & cover portrait of J D Salinger; Obscure Mr Shaw by M Beerbohm; W S Maugham on H Fielding; E Hemingway by his Brother; C Roberts interviewed; K Martin-The Crown & Establishment; etc.) £12.00
1962 July. (W S Maugham on J Austen; A Memory of Ernest Dowson by R Croft-Cooke) £10.00
1962 Aug. (E Sitwell-Cover & 4pp article; W S Maugham on Stendhal;
article on P Hansford Johnson; etc.) £10.00
1962 Sept. (W Faulkner inteview; W S Maugham on Balzac; J Symons-The Detective Story; Wild Western Literature by Paul Scott; Letters from Poets by R Croft-Cooke.) £10.00
1962 Oct. (Guilty Author by A Burgess; W S Maugham on Flaubert; R Holles on J Braine; N Monsarrat-article; J Wain on The Critics; F Brett-Young by T Allen; etc.) £10.00
1962 Nov. (W S Maugham on H Melville; Sherlock Holmes by R W-Egan;
Interview with M Duffy; etc.) £8.00
1963 July. Mary McCarthy Interviewed; K Hopkins on Emily Dickinson; Jack London-The Yankee Super Tramp; Denton Welch-Anachronistic Comet; R Whittington-Egan ib Arthur Symons; Bryher-A Writer's Memoirs; A Lejeune on G Green's Thrillers; K Hopkins-Boswell the Stylist; etc. £8.00
1963. Aug. Graham Greene as a thriller writer by A Lejeune 1pp. Armand Denis as a freid; Bryher-a writer's memoirs; etc. N Sarraute-The Age of Suspicion; P O'Harra interviewed by S Nettell;etc. £5.00
1963 Sept. Why Publish Poetry Edition-5 editors explain; A Lejeune on D Wheatley; N Sarrante –From Dostoievsky to Kafka; M Baldwin-Fire in the Belly; etc. £5.00
1963 Oct. Keith Waterhouse(Billy Liar) interviewed by S Nettell; R Whittington-Egan –a new book on Tutankhamen; D Du Marier on Phyllis Bottome; A Wrier's Dilemma-T Hinde & S Chitty; A Lejeune, snapshots of M Laurence, J Farrell, M Richlet, J Duncan & C Gaskin. £8.00
1963 Nov. Interviews with David Storey & Kingsley Amis; A conversation with Irwin Shaw-The Author & Film;”Top of the Victorian Pops-P Phillips; etc.
1963 Dec. A Lejeoune on Bryant's Age of hivalry; G Trease-A Writer is a…” M Robson-South with Scott; R bury on The Short Story; Thackeray was no Square by J Selwyn; etc.) £8.00
1964 Jan. (A Waugh interviewed & port. front cover; etc.) £8.00
1964 Feb. (S Barstow-Article,Interview & Cover portrait; R Wade on Characterisation in Fiction; D Francis & B L Jacot interviewed; article on G Seferis; R W-Egan on Connolly; etc.) £6.00
1964 Mar. (Cover: J Baldwin & article; J Masters-article.) £6.00
1964 Apr. (Cover-Design from the Penguin Edition of Golding's Lord of the Flies & article; R Bury on A Powell; J Laver on Costume in the Theatre-illus; Articles by I Wallace & P Highsmith.) £7.00
1964 May. (Cover-J P Donleavy & interview; A Lejeune on R Brooke; W A Smith-article; C Webb-article; etc.) £8.00
1964 Jun. (F Scott Fitzgerald interviews himself; Hemingway & Paris in the 20's; L Thomas interview.) £10.00
1964 July (W Saroyan on Dylan Thomas; Interview & extract from a novel by J Hall; Koestler's New Word, etc.) £8.00
1964 Aug. (B Brophy-Open Letter to the DPP; Three first novelists: R Stern,T Bostock, M Medina etc.) £5.00
1964 Sep. (J Leasor article-Chasing James Bond; etc.) £5.00
1964 Nov. (Cover-C P Snow & assessment by W Cooper; A Lejeune on M Beerbohm; Articles on R Graves by R W-Egan; J Wicksteed on the Brontes; etc.) £10.00
1965 Jan. (R P Warren-Reading Fiction; A Wilson-Childhood & After;A Lejeune-E Blunden's War; Interview-N Mitchison.) £5.00
1965 Jan . (G Greene-How I Wrote The Power and the Glory; T S Eliot interviewed; W S Maugham on Dostoevsky; T E Lawrence by A Lejeune; Interview -M H Bell; etc.) £15.00
1965 Feb. (My Early Years by Compton Mackenzie; W S Maugham on Tolstoy;
The Galsworthy Scandal by R W-Egan; etc.) £10.00
1965 Feb. (Article by S Bellow; G Greene on Edgar Wallace; H E Richardson on Faulkner; R Dahl on Children's Books; A Lejeune on H Pearson; N Algren-short story; R Chopping interview; etc.) £15.00
1965 Mar. (J Symons on A Machen; Interview with J Brooks; R W-Egan on C Wilson; Shaw's Alphabet by A Lejeune; I Norrie on R Dodsley; N Monsarrat review; etc.) £8.00
1965 Apr. (Cover porttrait & article: For Obscenity-Against Pornography by H Miller; etc.) £10.00
1965 Apr. (E S Gardner on Murder Mysteries; A Hamilton on J Cary's African novels; Article on E Pound; K Crossley-Holland on Children's Books; etc.) £5.00
1965 May. (Article & cover portrait on N Mailer; Interviews with W Trevor & P Gilliatt; Short story by A King; D H Lawrence by the Girl he called Miriam; etc.) £6.00
1965 May. (The Prize-I Wallace; How to Write a Thriller by I Fleming; P Vansittart on Writing; R F Delderfield; B S Johnson-article; S Hill-chidren's reading; R W-Egan on Wyndham Lewis.) £20.00
1965 Jun. (A Wilson-Evil in the Novel; R W-Egan on Wilde in Prison; P H Johnson on F Madox Ford; Cover, portrait, a page from The Collector & interview with J Fowles; etc.) £7.00
1965 Jun. (W B Yeats-A Dublin Portrait by W R Rodgers; T Allen on Past Beauties; etc.) £5.00
1965 Jul. (Interview-M McCarthy; R W-Egan on D Welch; K Hopkins on E Dickinson; R W-Egan on A Symons; etc.) £6.00
1965 Aug. (Bryher-A Writer's Memoirs; A Lejeune on Greene.) £5.00
1965 Sep. (Why Publish Poetry?-5 Publishers interviewed by John Smith-Editor of The Poetry Review; A Lejeune on D Wheatley.) £5.00
1965 Oct. (K Waterhouse on Culture from the North; D Du Maurier on P Bottome; etc.) £8.00
1965 Nov. (D Storey, I Shaw & K Amis interviewed; etc.) £5.00
1965 Dec. (A Lejeune on A Bryant; Thackeray by J Selwyn.) £5.00
1970 July. (J G Ballard, A Burgess, Stella Gibbons, P Gallico, etc discuss the writers who influenced their early works. Other articles by B Aldiss, P Tabori, O Blakeston, R Greacen, P Elstob, D Stanford, E Huxley, etc. etc.) £10.00
Sept 1965. (A Lejeune on Dennis Wheatley. Festival of Poetry at the Royal Court Theatre:- Interviews with W Plomer, E Lucie -Smith, R Fuller, J Lehmann, T Hughes, C Day Lewis,etc. Why Publish Poetry-Five Publishers discuss the problem interviewed by J Smith (C Monteith, C Franklin, D Athill, E Marx, R Hart-Davis) S Nettell interviews M Baldwin.) £15.00
Aug 1970. (R Greacen-Tapping the Golden Flow (R Church 2pp); D Stanford on The Writing on the Wall by M McCarthy) £5.00
May 1975. (C P Snow-Wordling of Genius; J Braine-The Prof & the Pro; D Stanford on How Bad was Rupert Brooke, etc.) £6.00
1980 Jan. (Auberon Waugh-Dressing up the British; E Powell on Gaiskell; A L Rowse on A R Housman; J Lehman on G E Moore; R Hayman on Mary McCarthy's Terrorim; Other reviews by J K Galbraith, Diana Mosley, C Sykes, D Stanford, H Hobson, H J ysenick, D Holbrok, etc. Jon Silkin-letter, etc.) £6.00
1980 Feb. (Auberon Waugh on Great Writers; Enoch Powell on Harold Wilson; A L Rowse -Two Literary Cats; H Acton-Pleasure-Houses; C Hill on the Poetry of Abraham Cowley; C Hawtree on Leslie Stephen; R Usborne-Wodehousiana; H Hobson-Critics & John Whiting; H J Eysenck, N Beloff, P Stothard, R Hayman, D Stanford,etc. Other short reviews by J Betjeman, Tom Hopkinson: Letters from Wrey Gardiner, H Montgomery Hyde, N Beloff, etc. £6.00
1980 March. (Auberon Waugh on Auden; Quentin Bell on Ruskin; A L Rowse on Admiral Canaris; E lucie-Smith-The Cult of Plath; J Lehman-Brenan the Outsider; C Sykes, N Mitchison, C Wilson, H J Eysenick, T Eagleton, D Stanford, etc. Letter from K Amis; etc.) £6.00
1980 April. (Margaret Atwood Interviewed; Auberon Waugh-Lunatic Letters; C Hill-Radicalism and the Army; Enoch Powell-The Party Principle; other reviews by Diana Mosley, H Hobson, A L Rowse on J Loughborough Pearson-a great Victorian Architect; J Richardson on Day-Lewis's Loves; C Wilson, H J Eysenick, G Moorhouse-Missionary Zeal; C Hibbert, B Masters, C Sykes, etc. Other reviews by Olivia Manning, D Stanford, L Reid Banks, etc.Letters from M Horovitz, P Binding & C Osborne, etc.) £6.00
1980 May. ( Auberon Waugh-Who's Who; R Ingrams-Vivian & Clive; Enoch Powellon The Victory that never was; Beverly Nichols-Exhuming Maugham; H Acton on The Wyatt Dynasty; C Sykes-Korda the Showman; A L Rowse-History by the Hundredweight; E Longford -Byronic Forebodings; Julian Barnes interviewed by R Hayman; W Boyd, etc.) £6.00
1980 June. (Auberon Waugh-The Final Hippo; Enoch Powell on Wagner's "Brown Book". A L Rowse-Spenser's Mentor; H Montgomery Hyde-Special Operations; William Trevor interviewed; Diana Mosley-The Devastating Duchess; R Hayman in Katherine Mansfield; C Hawtree on Vidal's Thrillers; D Stanford-on Roy Fuller; H J Eysenick-Analysing Creativity; E Blishen, C Hill, etc.) £8.00
1986 March. (Irish Literature with articles on W B Yeats-Collected Letters-by B Hardy; D Hogan on Mary Lavin; Enoch Powell on The Irish Mind; K Battersby on the Irish Banville-John Banville; M De-la-Noy pays tribute to C Isherwood; Enoch Powell; etc.) £5.00
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