MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
LITERARY PERIODICALS

The following issues are in original wraps. There is some sunning of spines & markings to covers but essentially all in very good condition unless otherwise indicated.

Jan 1940. No.1. (Poems by F Prokosch, De La Mare, Auden, J Betjeman, L MacNeice. J B Priestley-The War – and After; H Read-At The Moment of Writing;
C Connolly-The Ant-Lion; H E Bates-The Bridge; ; Spender-How shall we be saved? G Grigson on New Poetry; Criticism by G Grigson & S Spender.
Drawing by H Moore.: etc.) £ 25.00

Feb 1940. No.2. (G Orwell-The Lesson of War. Poems by G Barker, L MacNeice,
C Day Lewis; H Walpole on H James illustrated by W Rothenstein; S Spender, Rhys Davies, etc. P J Jouve on Mozart. Reviews by K Raine, P Quennell…)
Spine frayed. £15.00

March 1940. No.3. (Poems by W H Auden, J Betjeman, L S Little & N Cameron; G Orwell on Boy’s Weeklies; W Plomer on Kilvert’s Country; G Sutherland-illustrated. P Toynbee-The First Day of Term, etc.)
Covers foxed, spine slightly frayed. £15.00

April 1940. No.4. (Poems by F Prokosch, W R Rodgers, L Lee, G N Brady, A Drinan, F Buchanan, L S Little, T Heywood. N Moore short story; C Greenberg-Avant-Garde and Kitsch; V S Pritchett-story; M Belgion-French Chronicle;
S Spender-The Essential Housman. Portrait by Lucien Freud, Etc.)
Light covers dust soiled with light foxing. £15.00

May 1940. No.5. (Dylan Thomas-Poem; F Richards-A Reply to G Orwell; J Banting, A C Marshall on Graham Greene; W Empson, L Lee, P Quennell, A Ridler, F Scarfe, S Spender, R Todd, W J Turner, B Howard, F Richards, P White, etc.) Spine very slightly frayed. £10.00

June 1940. No.6. (Poems by W R Rodgers, T Driberg & C Day-Lewis.
Stories by J Maclaryn-Ross & G Mason; J B Priestley-Labour Leaders at the Ivy;
R Ironside on Burne-Jones & G Moreau-with one illustration; W Empson-Passing through the USA; Review by G Orwell;etc.) £10.00

July 1940. No.7. (G Rees-Letter from a Soldier; H Miller – Reflections on Writing; E Bowen-short story; Illustration by V Passmore; F McEachran-A Despised Liberal; A Perles-story; A Calder-Marshall on The Novels of B Traven; Poems by W H Auden, S Spender, L Lee, Letter from America by L MacNeice, etc.)
Extracted from bound volume. Spine very frayed. £5.00

Oct 1940. No.10. (Rhys Davies on D H Lawrence . T Harrison –The Popular Press? R Melville on The Temptation of Hieronymus Bosch; M Gardiner-story. Poems by W R Rodgers,T Heywood & R Fuller. ) £10.00

Nov 1940. No.11. (F Scarfe on The Poetry of Dylan Thomas; Poems by G Barker & W R Rodgers. Short stories by A Barea & F Urquart; E Muir-The Novel & The Modern World; B Howard-Notes on Civilians; T Heywood-Some Notes on English Baroque; Ben Nicholson illustration; etc.)
Original wraps a little foxed. £10.00

Feb 1941. No.14. (Fragment of An Autobiography by Augustus John. Budgen on Joyce, The Last Inspection by A Lewis. Poems by Spender, C Day-Lewis, J Betjeman, N Moore & K Rhys. Review by Spender, etc.)
Base of spine frayed. Cover dusty. £8.00

June 1941. No.18. (Long poem by Auden. Augustus John-Autobiographical Fragment,3. D Grant on Virginia Woolf. J Rothenstein on Painting in America with reproductions of paintings by Joan Rayner, C Burchfield 7 Grant Wood; Antonia White-short story; A L Rowse-Democracy & Leadership; etc.)£15.00

June 1941. No.19. (Dylan Thomas-poem. Short stories by R Roughton & W Sansom(The Wall); R Ironside on Proust; H Kingsmill on J M Barrie; C Andrassy on The Theory of Justice; Reviews by K J Raine; mass Observation; etc.)£8.00

Aug 1941. No.20. (G Orwell on H G Wells-Hitler & the World State; Spender & Watkins-poems. Article on Miro by P Watson, illustrated. Augustus John-Fragments IV. Reproductions of illustrations by G Prieto, C Monet, B Hepworth. June 23rd -Mass Observation;etc.) £15.00

Sept.1941. No.21. (G Orwell on The Art of D McGill-illustrated. F Budgen-Joyce's Chapters of Going Forth by Day; Poems by S Spender & R Graecen; P Hendry on H Moore-illustrated; E Bowen-story; S Spender, R Graecen-poems; Reviews by G Orwell, B Dobree, Antonia White, S Tennant…)
Original wraps browned & base of spine defective. £10.00

Oct 1941. No.22. (Poems by R S Thomas, F Scarfe, N Cameron & E J Scovell; A J A Symons by J Symons & V Holland ; W Sansom-The Long Sheet; W Glock -Why Not War Writers? A J A Symons-The Diner-Out; B Nicholson on Abstract Art with 2 illustrations; Augustus John-Fragments-V,etc.)
Original wraps very slightly little frayed. £10.00

Dec 1941. No.24. (Introduction to Balzac by R Mortimer. J Piper on F Hodgkins-illustrated. War Books by T Harrison. E M Forster-The New Disorder (6pp): Two Brave men by A Barea & L Portillo; O Lancaster-illustrated. etc.) £12.00

Jan 1942. No.25. Irish Number with a long poem by P Kavanagh; M J MacManus-Eire & the World Crisis; T H White –Letter from a Goose Shooter;
S O'Faolain 0n Yeats & the Yoinger Generation; F O'Connor-The Future of Irish Literature; E Sheehy-story; Kenneth Clark on Jack Yeats-illustrated; etc.)
Spine frayed.£8.00

Feb 1942. No.26. (Spender–Poetry in 1941. G Orwell on Kipling. Augustus John-Fragments-VI. G Barker-poem. Photographs by Bill Brandt,etc.)
Lacks covers. £8.00

April 1942. No.28 . (Poems by D Witherby & W J Turner. Welsh Sketch Book by G Sutherland-illustrated. O Sitwell on E Gosse; A Barea on G Lorca; H Read-Vulgarity & Impotence; Visc Esher –Freedom from Want; etc.etc.) £10.00

May 1942. No.29. (D S Savage on Hart Crane. A Gide-Imaginary Interview (1).
A Goldsmith on Flaubert. J Tonge on Scottish Painings-illustrated. A Comfort-letter. P Quennell on Put out more Flags; C E M Joad. etc.) £8.00

June 1942. No.30. (A Koestler-The Yogi & The Commissar. P Quennell on Gide.
A Gide-Imaginary Interview (2). F Borkenaum on Sorel, Pareto & Spengler.
A Mookerjee on Kalighat folk painters-illustrated. S Spender-article, etc.) £10.00

Aug 1942. No. 32 . (Denton Welch-Sickert at St Peter's. Aragon-3 poems.
Maclaren-Ross-I had to go Sick. R Wyndham on Matthew Smith with reproductions. Augustus John-Fragments-VII. A Comfort-Szobel & The Horrors of War.etc.) £15.00

Sept 1942. No.33. (Alyse Gregory on Benjamin Constant. D Gardner-Crossing the Atlantic. G Abraham on Shostakovich. Poems by T Tiller, C Lee, G S Fraser & Ross Nichols. Reviews by K Raine & R Greacen,etc)
Original wraps a little frayed. £10.00

Oct 1942. No.34. (L Binyon & A Ridler-poems. J Mortimer on Mallarme. Memories of P Klee by J Adler-illus. L Pearsall Smith-story, etc.) Small ink splodge on front wrap. £8.00

Nov 1942. No.35. (H Miller-Good News! God is Love. N Mitford on A Hare; R Melville on Picasso-illustrated. M Barsley-poem. F Urquart,etc.)
Spine a little frayed. £10.00

Dec 1942. No.36. (R Todd on Henry Fuselli-illustrated. Poems by Aragon & Uys Krige. P Quennel on Baswell 1. J Maclaren Ross, Augustus John-Fragments-VIII….) Spine frayed. £8.00

Jan 1943. No 37. (L MacNeice & W S Graham-poems. S Berlin & B Nicholson on Alfred Wallis. Augustus John-IX. C Beaton-Libyan Diary-1. G Orwell-review,etc.)
Spine slightly frayed. £10.00

Feb 1943. No 38. (C E M Joad-On Leaving Mind Out. C Beaton-Libyan Diary-2.
E Welty-The Wide Net. H Miller-Soiree in Hollywood. Poems by K Raine & Lynette Roberts. H Moore-Reproductions of his drawings. Etc.)
Spine frayed. Original wraps slightly marked. £8.00

March 1943. No.39. (Letter to my Son by O Sitwell; Illustrated article by A Masson; Poems by L MacNeice, D S Savage & K Gee.)
Spine frayed. £8.00

April 1943, No 40. (A Koestler-The Birth of a Myth. A Comfort-Letter from Ireland. Poems by R Lehmann, L Binyon, J Betjeman & C Day Lewis.
Drawings by E Q Nicholson & O Lancaster. S Spender-review.)
Bottom of spine frayed. Covers sunned. £8.00

May 1943. No.41. (D Witherby-poem; R Mortimer on H James; H D Davray on Mallarme. Story by L Pearsall Smith. letter from Graham Greene concerning E Waugh. Illustrations by L Freud & E Bawden: A Kavan;etc.)
Spine frayed £10.00

June 1943. No.42. (V Trefusis-story. Shane Leslie on Henry James. P Hendy &
E H Ramsden on the Paul Nash & Barbara Hepworth Exhibitions-illustrated.
P Quennell on Boswell's Progress. Poems by G Barker.etc.) £12.00

July 1943. No.43. (Poems by L MacNeice, S Spender & J Arlott. Ironside on Ruskin; P Quennell on Boswell; D Masters–The Poet & The Revolution. G W Stonier, Long letter from C M Bowra on Literature of The Soviets.etc.) £8.00

Aug 1943. No 44. (C Connolly-“1843”; H S Ede on David Jones with reproductions of his drawings. Augustus John-Fragments-X. P Eluard-3 poems.
£10.00

Sept. 1943. No.45. (Poems by W R Rodgers, L Pearsall Smith & M Baring; G Orwell-review. A Kavan on New Zealand; M Turnell on Moliere; B Jonzen visits W Sickert …) £8.00

Oct 1943. No.46. (A Koestler-Mixed Transport. S Spender on Hoderlein, Goethe
& Germany. V Watkins-poem, etc.) £8.00

Nov 1943. No.47. (Poeme de Guerre by E L T Mesens. M Adeney-poem. J Kessel-story. V Trefusis-Triptych. P Quennell on L Sterne. Articles by Dwight MacDonald & H Tracy. L Fielden replies to G Orwell,etc.) £8.00

Dec 1943. No.48. (Poems by L Lee & N Nicholson. Alun Lewis-story. Dr Jakobi on Jung. Augustus John-Fragments-XI.; P Quennell on L Sterne; Hugo Manning, etc.) Spine slightly frayed. £8.00

Jan 1944. No.49. (Lady Gregory on Diderot: L MacNeice-poem; D Witherby-story. S Jameson on Contemporary American Painters-illustrated; P Ustinov, J Lindsay, etc.)
Spine slightly frayed. £8.00

March 1944 . No.51 . (A Koestler-The Intelligentsia. H Tracy-story.
S Spender-The Lessons of Poetry 1943. C Mackworth on Rimbaud.
Poems by J Betjeman & L MacNeice.Cpt R Campbell-Prisoner of War.etc.)
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April 1944. No 52. (4 poems by Holderlin. D Welch-story. A J Ayer on Freedom.
H S Williamson on Ceri Richards-illustrated. A Kavan.etc.)
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May 1944. No.53. (H Read-Art & Criticism. E Starkie-Eccentrics of 1830-1.
J Mackwood on Obsenity. J Craxton-illustrated; A Kavan,etc.) £6.00

June 1944. No.54. (E Sackville-West on Music. E Starkie-Eccentrics of 1830-2.
Poems-S Spender, L MacNeice & A S J Tessimond. A H Hourari-Where shall we go?V -Syria.etc.) £6.00

July 1944. No.55. (Poetry of Boris Pasternak by J M Cohn. H Read & N Gabo exchange letters-illustrated. A Blok-The Twelve. P Quennell on Sterne.
Sensitiveness by G De Chirico. E Sackville-West on Music.etc.) £6.00

Aug 1944. No.56. (Augustus John-Fragments-XII. P Vezelay on Children's Drawings-illustrated. Colquhoun-illustrated. H T Hopkinson on R Lovelace.
E Sackville-West on Music.Etc.)
Covers dusty. £6.00

Sept 1944. No.57. (A Huxley-The Minimum Working Hypothesis; S Gilbert on J Joyce; Poems by L Binyon, J Arlott & E H W Meyerstein, etc. P Toynbee-story.
Review by S Spender. C Sykes on Persia .) £10.00

Oct 1944. No.58. (G Orwell-Raffles & Miss Blandish. O Manning-Poets in Exile.
R Gathorne-Hardy-letter to a painter. Reviews by Spender, C M Bowra & reproductions of paintings by Picasso; Woodrow Wyatt,etc.) £15.00

Nov 1944. No.59 . (P Toynbee-The Literary Situation in France . P Rodd on The Psychology of Refugees. F McEachran on Nietzsche. E Roditi ,etc.) £6.00

Dec 1944. No.60. (T S Eliot-The Man of Letters & The Future of Europe.
varieties of Religious Experiences with contributions from Georges Sand, H Simon, B Bartok & T C Worsley; A Christmas Anthology compiled by S Spender-
with contributions by Blunden, E Sitwell, J G Villam E Muir, J Lehmann, S Keys, V Watkins, H Nemerov, G Barker, C Day Lewis, F Cornford, R Fuller, J Waller,etc.) £15.00

Jan 1945. No.61. (J Lehmann-The Battle of the Book. Dylan Thomas-2 poems.
B Russell-British & American Nationalism. Photographs by Cecil Beaton;
Review by E Sitwell,etc.) Original wraps a little frayed. £8.00

Feb 1945. No.62. (Poems by Dylan Thomas, J Betjeman, W J Turner, G Barker,
V Watkins & J Brooke. C Mackworth on Apollinaire. R Fedden on Egypt .
D Cooper on George Moore . C Greenberg on Surrealist Painting,etc.) £10.00

March 1945. No 63. (N Annan on Turgenev. R Ironside on Victor Passmore.
O Sitwell - The True Story of Dick Whittington. Poems by A J S Tessimond
& P Dehn. R Heppenstall etc.) £8.00

April 1945. No.64 . (A Moravia-story. Augustus John-Fragments-XIII.
B Croce-The Moral Problem of Today. M Moffett on Young Irish Painters-illustrated. J D Scott on Gide. R Jarrell on Poe, etc.) Spine a little frayed. £5.00

May 1945. No.65. (News Out of France. J Russell on The Existential Theatre. J Paulhan on Braque. S Spender on French Wartime Poetry. P Toynbee on Modes in French Literature with other articles by Sartre, Ponge & Valery.etc.)
Spine a little frayed. £6.00

June 1945. No.66. (K Raine on J Donne. H Read on Justice. B Croce-poem.
H Rousseau-illustrated. N Cunard , etc.) £6.00

July 1945. No.67. (A J Ayer on J P Sartre; A Moorhead on Belsen; H H Price on Telepathy; Poems by J Betjeman & S Spender; Article with illustrated by A Masson. G Sutherland,etc.) Cover foxed.£8.00

aug 1945. No.68. (Interview with T S Eliot on the Condition of Man Today. Sartre by A J Ayer. E Sitwell, J Lehmann, A Frenaud, E Roditi , H Adler, R Mortimer, C M Bowra,etc. Reproductions of 3 Paintings by Jacques Villon..)
Spine a little frayed. £10.00

Sept 1945. No.69. (Story by E Bowen. Poem by Pasternak translated by C M Bowra. K T Bluth on Schelling. Ben Nicholson-illustrated. etc.) £8.00

Oct 1945. No.70. (Poems by Dylan Thomas(2), G Barker & G Grigson. Interview with Malraux with articles on him by D M Collar, E Sackville-West & E Wilson who also writes about Silone. H & S Janis on Marcel Duchamp, anti-artist-illustrated. etc.) £12.00

Nov 1945. No.71. (A J A Symons on Irving & the Irvingites. L MacNeice-poem.
Henry Moore-illustration. Painting in Paris by D H Kahnweiler.etc.) £8.00

Dec 1945. No.72. (A Jarry-Ubu Cocu. R Ironside on P Klee. Poems by C Aiken & L Lee. S Spender-Rhineland Journal. Augustus John-XIV. etc.)
Covers dusty & slightly marked. £8.00

Jan 1946. No.73. ( W Sansom - short story (Something Terrible,Something Lovely. ) Augustus John XV. N Turnell on C De Laclos. C Goemasson on P Delvaux-illustrated. Poems by P Emmanuel & P J Jouve.etc.)
Tip of spine very slightly damaged. £7.00

Feb 1946. No.74. Swiss Number with all articles on the Cultural Position of Switzerland. Char,etc. All published in their original languages. Illustrated. £6.00

March 1946. No.75. (A J Ayer on Camus. Modern Greek Poetry by N Valaoritis. Stories by A Kavan & M Richardson. H Matisse on Painting. Notes on Ghika-illustrated. N Valaoritis on Modern Greek Poetry; etc.) Spine very slightly frayed. Tea cup mark on cover. £4.00

April 1946. No.76. (S Spender on Poetry. G Orwell on Politics & The English Language. P Loeb on Wilfredo Lam-illustrated. Etc.) £15.00

May 1946. No.77. (R L Stevenson & G D Brown by J D Scott; D Bussy on P Valery; G Grigson on Samuel Palmer's friends; B Gutteridge - Portrait of a Town (Bombay); Holbrook Jackson on Typography. H Hell on the Poetry of O Larrende with examples, illustrated by S Bussy & G Richmond; E Maxwell Fry on Architecture; etc.) £6.00

June 1946. No.78. (An appraisal:Ivy Compton-Burnett & E Bowen by E Sackville-West; A Huxley-Religion & Temperament. B Berenson on C Placci. E L T Mesens on “Scottie” Wilson-illustrated, etc.)
Tip of spine frayed. £8.00

uly 1946. No.79. (M Bowra-The Next Stage in Poetry; S Schimanski-Broken Minds; Poems by V Watkins & L Frankenberg, E O Malley on Louis Le Brocquy-illustration; R Mortimer-Back to Italy & Greece; M Jones-Evans on Henry Jame's Year in France; etc.) £8.00

Aug 1946. No.80. (L Lee-poem. A Waley-translation. Article by J Gris-illustration. D Hubble on Darwin. R Mortimer, etc.) £5.00

Sept 1946. No.81. ("The Cost of Letters" - Dylan Thomas, J Betjeman, C Day Lewis, E Bowen, A Comfort, C Connolly, G Orwell, C Day Lewis, J MacClaren Ross, V S Pritchett, R Graves, H Read, W Sansom & S Spender answer this questionnaire. R Ironside on A Beardsley-illus. H Hesse-autobiographical. etc.) £16.00

Oct 1946. No.82 . (Augustus John-Fragments-XV1. R Penn Warren-Story; R Dumesnil on Flaubert. C Giedion-Welcker on J Arp-illustrated. J Mackwood-Each Citizen as his own Criminal & Judge; S H Foulkes-Crime begins & ends within the Communit; Etc.) £6.00

Nov 1946. No.83 . (P Toynbee on Virginia Woolf. B Wall on Contemporary Italian Writers. T Del Renzio on Italian Poetry. illustrated by M Ernst, Y Tanguy, Matta, K Seligmann & W Lam, etc,etc) £6.00

Dec 1946. No.84 . (C Day Lewis-poem. Rose Macaulay on E Waugh. J Cassou on Lipchitz-illustrated. H Tennyson-In The Desert,etc.) £6.00

Jan 1946 . No.85 . (Poems by K Allott & T Tiller; Reviews by B Russell & P Toynbee. Article, with reproductions, by L Kochnitzky on H Laurens. H Fischer on German Writers of Today. Tangye Lean on Toybee…)
Original wraps slightly frayed. £6.00

Feb 1947. No.86. (W H Auden on Henry James "The American Scene". J Russell on Lytton Strachey. F Delanglade on Prinner-Sculptor-illustrated. A Moorhead on Australia. T Hopkinson-story,etc.) £10.00

Mar 1947. No.87 . (W H Auden-poem; Hemingway by R Penn Warren; F Alexander on Leopardi; etc.)
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May 1947. No.88 . (V S Pritchett on A Koestler. G Brenan on St John of the Cross; R Leibowitz on A Webern; illustrated by J Miro; Poems by P Viereck & W Hansen...) Original wraps lightly foxed. £6.00

June 1947. No.89. (Under the Sky by Paul Bowles; Poems by D Witherby & K Rexroth. B Peret on Pre Columbian Art –illus. G Brenan on St John of the Cross,etc.)
Spine a little frayed. £8.00

July 1947. No.90. (Poems by S Spender, E Sitwell, C Day Lewis,etc. Kenneth Clark on the Development of E Sitwell's Later Style-22pp; Father & Son by O Sitwell-22pp. M Turnell on Stendhal,etc.)
Covers lightly foxed. £10.00

Aug 1947. No.91. (E Wilson-Roman Summer 1945. M Turnell on Stendhal with example of his work. R Leibwitz on Alban Berg. A Toynbee-Russia's Byzantium Heritage. G Regler on L Carrington, A & W Paalen, G Onslow-Ford. Etc.) Small ink stains on dusty covers. £4.00

Nov 1947. No.95 . (H Read-on Modern Painting. A Wilson-story. H Hare on Swinburne. E W White on Stravinsky. Illustrations by L Freud & J Craxton,etc.)
Lacks covers. £2.00

Dec 1947. No.96 . (Dylan Thomas-Poem 3pp; J Russell on The Old Age of Andre Gide; Answers to a Questionnaire by G Orwell, T S Eliot, L P Hartley, A Koestler,
R & J Lehmann, W Plomer, H Read, A Waley, E Waugh,etc. Ian Fleming on Jamaica. C M Bowra on Quasimodo, reproductions of recent lithographs by Picasso, etc.)
Base of spine damaged. Covers foxed. £10.00

Feb 1948. No.98. Complete issue devoted to the first English publication of The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, introduced by the Editor.
Tips of spine frayed. Light foxing of cover. £15.00

April 1948. No.100. (E Sitwell-long poem. The Outlook for Mankind by Betram Russell. A Wilson-story. R Ironside on Balthus with reproductons of his work.
R Warner on Greece . L Trilling on Henry James.etc.)
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May 1948. No.101. (E Waugh on R Knox-9pp. C M Bowra on The Odes of Horace. L Frankenberg-Conscience Free; R Postgate, etc.)
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July 1948. No 103. (G Brenan on Cervantes. A Malraux on The Psychology of Art. Poems by Auden & J Laughlin. L Kennedy-story…)
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Oct 1948. No 106. (E Glover on Freud or Jung. Antonia White-story. Le Corbusier- New World of Space-illustrated. Alan Ross on Nathaniel West. etc.) Spine cellotaped. £5.00

Nov 1948. No.107. (W H Auden-2 poems. Betty Miller on Samuel Butler.
Freud or Jung by E Glover-part 2. Stories by John Robinson & Betty Miller)
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Jan 1949. No.109. (Poems by E Morgan, R Fuller & D Gascoyne. Truman Capote-story; G Santayana-Epilogue on My Host the World; British Philosophy between the Wars by H H Price; Reproductions of Expressionist Paintings bewteen the Wars (E Munch & O Kokoscha) by E Josephson illustrated. etc.)
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May 1949. No.113. (A Wilson-story. A Harper on L P Fargue. J Garcia Villa-7 poems. C Hollis-The Chances of the Future; The Topographical Illusion by K Nott; reviews by P Toynbee & P Dickinson, etc.)
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Dec 1949. No.120-121. (F Bacon by R Melville-illustrated; M Blanchot on The Marquis De Sade; Poems by C Day Lewis & O Paz. G Gorer-Some Notes on British Character. Index 109-121.
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