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PHASE 1 . Ed Mike HALL & Roger Lindsay FORD. Poetry magazine for students of Exeter University. 1964. Contributors include Graham Jerrold,
Bob Wood, Fred Clitheroe, Editors, Tim Appelbee, David L Palmer, Charles Napier, Jenny Lloyd, Heather Rowledge. 9 stapled sheets. £5.00.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW. Ed. THILLY, CUNNINGHAM & SABINE. N.Y. Vol.43. Nos 1-6 (253-258) 1934.
Each issue contains original articles dealing different areas of philosophy.
(M T McClure, C I Lewis, J E Boodin, T De Laguna, D J Bronstein, R W Church, B Ginzburg, A Lallande, M Farber, C W Morris, M E Clarke, P Weiss,etc.)
6 issues very good in original wraps. £25.00

PICK OF TODAYS SHORT STORIES. All published-first by Oldham 's Press then by Putnam Press. (G Greene-The Hint of an Explanation, 12pp; E Bowen, J Cary, A E Coppard, E Linklater, R Hughes,
J Hanley, G Kersh, W Plomer, S O'Faolain, E Waugh, H Treece, V S Pritchett, F Urquhart, G Sims,
W Sansom, R Davies, N Balchin, C S Forester, F L Green, P Hansford Johnson, A A Milne, D Lessing,
F King, L P Hartley, B Aldiss, H E Bates, G Household, R Maugham, F O'Connor, M Spark, A Wilson,
M Lavin, D K Haynes, P Mortimer, M Richler, K Amis, A Calder-Marshall, A Sillitoe, I English, etc. )
12/14 with dws – all in very good condition. £250.00

PICTORIAL WEEKLY (NS). 4 Nov 1933. (The Big Push is Coming-article on the Depression; The Minute I'll never forget-E R G R Evans; Stories by C H Hervey, B Graeme, L Dennis, K Ayling, etc. Montague Norman -Here Comes the Bogey Man by D Brent; various inserts including 32 pp road map of Britain. £5.00

PICTUREGOER FILM ANNUAL 1951 -52. Odhams Press. Name on front paste down. Contributors include Margaret Lockwood, Gregory Peck, Ida Lupino, Gene Kelly, Anna Neagle, Richard Todd, Tyrone Power, Doris Day, Dirk Bogarde, etc. well illustrated both in black & white & colour £5.00

PIE. Miscellany for Men & Women. Hutchinson.
Autumn Pie. Sept 1945. (Stories by J Maclaren-Ross, J Fuller, F Richards;
Articles by N Spain (on J Agate), H Hobson, M Stanhope, etc. Illustrations by L Scarfe, etc.) £15.00
Xmas Pie. Dec 1946. ( N Spain , J Fuller, H Gingold, F Richards, C Ray. H Hobson, I Lang, H Leckenbury, etc.) £12.00
Winter Pie. Oct 1947. (J Maclaren-Ross, J Pudney, E Dudley , S Box, A Haskell, J Brophy, E Mannin, etc.) £15.00
Winter Pie. Dec 1949. (Dinsany, W S Maugham, C Cochran, Edith Evans, Flora Robson, C A Lejeune, B Darwin, N Bentley...) £10.00

PILOT PAPERS. Social Essays and Documents. Ed. Charles MADGE.
vol 1/1 - vol 2/4, 1946-1947. together with the original issue published in 1945. (J Laver, Spike Hughes, Bill Naughton, C Madge, J D Bernal, T Harrison, G Gover, M Cowley, J Arlott, B Lovell, J Huxley, J Atkins, J Arlott, K Adam, F Worsely, etc.) 9 issues in original wraps. £80.00
vol 2/3, Sept. 1947. (Editor, J Huxley. A redefinition of "Progress"; Rent Tribunals by F N B Palmer; A Richards, N Harvey , P MacIver...)  £5.00

PINK PEACE. Ed. John RICE. Summer 1972, Issue 4. Poems by G Holland, J Elsberg, M Abbott, N Jenkins, N Spratling, J Khan, N Walker, A Carvalho, C Clothier, etc. 2pp interview with V Scannell; W Oxley on the poetry of Trauma; with illustrations by P Bennett, J Holton & F W Marsh. £6.00

PIVOT. The Little Magazine with the Big Reputation. Editor A Harelamn, R Schwarz et al. Pennsylvannia State University .
vol 4/15-vol 5/20, 1965-1969 & vol 10/36-vol 12/38, 1988-1990.
Although basically an undergraduate verse magazine a number of recognisbable names appear particularly in the later issues, ie Kirby Congdon, Norman Rosten, David Ignatow, Wendy Cope, Richard Burns, Craig Raine, W D Snodgrass,
Mathew Sweeney, Williams Meredith, Hans Neuberger, S Menashe, etc.
9 numbers in 8 issues all very good in original wraps. £48.00

PLAINSONG. Ed. F & P STEELE & E OAKES. USA. V1/2. Spring 1985
Southern Women Poets:- K Soniat, G Bauer, P Rankin, S Bingham, B Hester,
M A McCelvey, S de M B Andressen translated by R Fainlight,etc. Other poems by W Pillin, A Straus, M Power, B Horton, etc. £5.00

PLAIN WORDS. A Magazine of Verse & Prose presented by Magdalene College Writers Circle. Ed Sealy. Nd. (Poems by J Shaw, W D Barnett, J Osborne, E Sealy, with a story by D Grundy.) Original wraps. £5.00

PLAISIR DE BIBLIOPHILE. Gazzette Trimestrielle des Amateurs de Livres Modernes. Paris. vol 6/1-4, Nos 21-24, 1930. Each issue runs to 64pp of text & illustrations plus ads at the front & rear. All issues very good condition, most unopened. The last issue contains an insert for use in binding the four issues as a single volume. £20.00

PLAN. Ed. J W M DUDDING. vol 1/1-vol 6/9 (last in this format) April 1934-Sept 1939. A constructive Monthly R review “For World Order and Progress”. Articles, Poems & Reviews by A Craig, P Potts, D S Savage, Ol Stapledon, C Roth, L Golding, A S Neill, Leslie Paul, H B Mallalieu, J K Hendry, Pat May, Ian Fletcher, Kingsley Martin, M Plowman, J Huxley, H Read, L G Gibbon, N Haire, S Webb, Barbara Wooton, Harry Pollitt, H N Brailsford, H G Wells, A Huxley, N Mitchison, C E M Joad, M A Hamilton, Dora Russell, G D H Cole, W B Curry, L Housman, Havelock Ellis, W Holtby, J M Bunting, G M Trevelyan, Sylvia Pankhurst,etc.) With the outbreak of War 'Plan' changed its title & format to ‘ Plan Bulletin ' “issued by the Federation of Progressive Socities & Individuals” consisting of a number of stapled duplicated pages:- vol 1/1-vol 2/11, October 1939-Dec 1941. It then reverted to ‘Plan' but still stapled duplicated sheets:- vol 9/1-6, 8, 10-12. vol.10/1, 2. Jan 1942-Feb 1943.
101 issues of this fragile publication with original inserts. £500.00
PLAN. vol 1/4. July 1934. (H G Wells & G M Trevelyan state their views on
The Teaching of History. A Huxley on “Manifesto” 2pp. Etc.) £10.00
PLAN. vol 1/7. October 1934. A Constructive Review with original contributions by H G Wells, A S Neill, D Russell, G West, O Stapledon, J M Bunting. £10.00

THE PLANET. Ed. Ned THOMAS. No. 1-11, 14-16, 18/19, 20, 21, 23-25. 1970-1974. A Serious Magazine reviewing Welsh affairs in English. It carried a mix of literary articles, short stories, political essays, poetry, descriptions of local
Welsh scenes; reviews from the standpoint of the left wing, nationalist, non-party which caused considerable controversy in Wales at the time. (R Garlick, R S Thomas, Alun Richards, Robert Morgan, J Wain, L Norris, R Fulton, J Tripp, B S Johnson, Rhys Davies, Sartre, A Conran, E powell, T Harrison, A Conran, J Tripp, E Lawrence, etc.) 21 in 18 issues in original wraps. £90.00

PLANETE PLUS. Juin 1970. No.16. (H Miller:- L'Homme et son Message
with contributions from L Durrell-Le Souffle du Dragon; P Reumaux, S Beucler, C Bouyeure, P Hardequin & B Thomas-Gennari.L Pauweis, M De Smedt, G Belmont & D Odier.) £10.00

PLATFORM. Ed. Frederic WOODS.
ONE. nd. (Poems by E E Cummings, T Heywood, B Bergonzi, W Price Turner, J B Mays, M Duffy, P Casimir, I Coates, A J Bull, etc.) £8.00
Spring 1954 No.3 (Poems by G S Fraser, P Valery translated by C Higham, E Jennings , B Bergonzi, R Garioch, etc. N Moore on John Peale Bishop: etc.) £8.00
Autumn 1955 No.4 (Poems by W Carlos Williams, N MacCaig, E Jennings, E L Mayo, S Goodsir Smith, K Amis, P Larkin, A Brownjohn, C Higham, P Russell, etc. R Ellman on The Identity of Yeats; etc.) £10.00

PLATFORM. The Magazine of the Pennine Poets. Ed. Joan LEE.
1967 Jan, July, Oct. Contributors include Gwen Wade, G R H Ellis, S L Henderson Smith, I Dewhurst, J Waddington-Feather, Alec Smith, G Grenfell, F Caulfield, F A Carter, G A North, R Mutimer, K M Clark, etc.) 3 issues in original wraps. £15.00

PLATFORM. Ed. A & J COZZENS.
Issue 6. nd. (Story by P Selby. Poems by G Baxter, Holub, D Chaloner, M Butterworth, B E Pilcher, P Brown, D H W Grubb, B Marley, U McCarthy, Jim Burns, A J Henricks, A Rudolf, D Tweedale, etc.) £8.00
1974 No.7 (Poems by E Randell, M Horovitz, D Tweedale, B Vir Singh with an article on him by Y Lovelock, A Cozens on Little Magazines, etc.) £6.00

PLAY PICTORIAL. vol 65/392, Dec 1934. Contains details of Sweet Aloes produced at the Wyndhams Theatre; Hamlett at the New Theatre, Ballet at the Vic-Wells; HeHi-Diddle-Diddle at the Comedy; Lucky Break at The Strand; Theatre Royal at the Lyric. H G Stevens shows How Pantomine is “Dying Out”.
with the Obituary of Arthur Pinero. Profusley illustrated. £5.00

PLAYBOY. Playboy's Bookshop. NY. 1919. Nos 4/5. (D H Lawrence -The Poetry of the Present 2pp. Poems by J Bell , E Morgan, M Hartley, L Ridge, etc. Illustrations by Stuart Davis, A Walkowitz, L Bouche, I Karasz, L Kassimir, C R W Nevinson, C B Hartmann, etc.) Thin pinkish/brown wraps loose otherwise very good. £25.00

PLAYBOY. Nov 1969. USA. (Crook's Tour by G Greene. The first part of Travels with My Aunt-13pp. A Coren on Mick Jagger. Playboy interview with Jessie Jackson; etc.) £10.00
July 1973. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.-Interview. Bond Gets Sainted-Roger Moore as 007 in "Live & Let Die. T McHale- A Society Of Friends; R L Fish-The Wager;
R F Young-The Time Machine, etc.) Wraps loose. £5.00
Jan 1980. (Steve Martin interviewed; R Dahl-My Uncle Oswald-9pp extract prepublication; Le Roy Neinman-sketchbook; J Le Carre-Smiley's People-8pp; "Star Trek's" Enterprising Return by G McNeese; etc.) £10.00
Dec 1981. (Henry Fonda-interview; James Baldwin on the Atlantic Murders; Stories by J Carol Oates & B J Freidman, J Le Carre-Smiley's People-extract prepublication of the Novel.) £10.00

PMLA. 1937 Dec. Conrad's Revision in Nostromo by G W Whiting 8pp with facs; with essays on Old English Poetry, Lincoln Cathedral, Chaucer, J Donne, Montaigne, Addison, Hume, De Goourmont, Tolstoy's War stories, E Glesener, etc. £5.00

PMLA. USA. Sept 1936. (E C Knowlton-Nature & Shakespeare.)  £2.00

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