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7/5/65. (John Betjeman- Art belongs to Glasgow-4pp illus.Mama's Old Stucco House by Tennessee Willimas-short story.5pp. Original wraps slightly frayed. £12.00

1/7/66. (E Mullins-Beatrix Potter-Her Secret Journal,7pp illus.) £4.00

16/12/66. (S Spender-Preposterous Proposal; A Ross on Christmas Card Poet Laureate; Dylan Thomas-an unpublished poem-D Cleverdon describes its history.) £16.00

10/3/67. (Two Gentle People. A short story by Graham Greene-3pp.) £10.00

19/4/68. (A 'Chagall' in a Day. How a master forger works-5pp illus article by David Stein.) £4.00

28/6/68. (W Sansom-Day Out-3pp short story; E Mullins on Picasso's work in the Theatre.) £6.00

3/1/69. (The Worm inside the Lotus Blossom-Graham Greene on Paraguay-4pp.) £10.00

6/7/69. Special issue to commemorate the Investiture of Prince Charles as the twenty-first Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle. Contains poems by R Graves (with his own printed anontations),
L Norris & Ted Walker; James Cameron;) £10.00

27/3/70. (Graham Greene looks back. The first issue of 4 titles in a new Collected Edition of his works, appearing on April 6th.
Here the magazine publishes exclusively the first 3 of the 4 special autobiographical introductions, £in which £ Britain£s leading novelist explores how he wrote some of his books:-It£s a Battlefield, England Made Me, Brighton Rock.£ 4pp. C Bonnington-Why they defy Mountains-3pp illus.) £12.00

3/4/70. (Graham Greene£s fourth introduction - Our Man in Havana-3pp. V S Naipaul-Cannery Row Revisted-6pp) £10.00

7/4/71. (Hints from an unhappy Future. Graham Greene£s introduction to The Confidential Agent. 2pp) £10.00

16/4/71. (In the footsteps of a priest. The path which led Graham Greene to write The Power & The Glory. 2pp. His sixth autobiographical introduction for The Collected Works.) £10.00

23/4/71. (G Greene-Swamps, rain & a mud cook. 2pp intro to The Heart of the Matter.) £10.00

25/6/71. (Young Writer of the Year-Peter Sanders with comments by R Dahl, M Dickens..) £5.00

4/2/72. (Laurie Lee-52,000 feet above Criticism-6pp) £5.00

25/2/72. (C Jordon on A Kavan-4pp illus; D Benedictus.) £3.00

24/3/72. (Ronald Duncan-Soft Woods,Quick Returns; Tennessee Williams as a sick man- 6pp illus; Dom Moraes visits Buru-7pp illus.) £5.00

26/5/72. (Laurie Lee on Berkeley Castle-7pp illus.) £6.00

14/7/72. (Night Shift at the Bakery by Tom Hoogewerf. 2nd prize. Young Writer of the Year Competition.) £4.00

2/3/73. (Jim Burns-A Poet in His Northern Corner, profile by Bel Mooney. 3pp with illus.) £4.00

13/4/73. (The Blitz from a Distance-where G Greene conceived the idea for the Ministry of Fear. 3pp introduction to this work. Beverley Nichols.) £10.00

18/4/73. (The Indo-China love affair out of which Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American. 5pp introduction to that novel & his recollections of that country.) £10.00

27/4/73. (N Monsarrat on the biggest ship ever built.) £4.00

1/6/73. (J Creasey by B Mooney 4pp illus; S Sitwell-VIP Lounge-A shortened version of a chapter from a new book to be published on 4th June.) £6.00

15/6/73. (A Mylett reviews the 12 volumes of A Dance to The Music of Time-4pp Illus. E H Cookridge on Espionage.) £4.00

14/9/73. (Conversations with J Austen, 4pp with After The Fall-1pp cutting from The Times 26/3/77,prepublication of "THE WATSONS" by J Austen; & "World of Jane Austen" by P O'Donovan, 3pp illus in The Observer 14/12/75.and an illustrated Prospectus for Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane. 4 items. £3.00

28/9/73. (A Cronin's Recollection of Complicated Travels with B Behan,5pp illus. C Nicholl on IT, OZ (Underground Press) & all the others,5pp illus) £5.00

5/10/73. (C Fry on the Bronte family-3pp illus with 4 other articles on the Brontes by M Butterfield & B Wilks, B Bainbrige, G B Wood from The Sunday Times & The Municipal Review,1964-77 together with an introduction to the Haworth Parish Church-official Guide.) 6 items. £4.00

2/11/73. (P J Kavanagh-Don't Ditch Your Hedges; V S Pritchett-How Brussells Sprouts-3pp illus; A Haden-Guest on J Susann, 4pp illus; The Match-short story by Arno Karlen-4pp..) £6.00

16/11/73.(Advance Bookings Taken with Confidence-E Shorter on A Christie's Mousetrap) £3.00

18/11/73. (A special commemorative issue for the wedding of Princess Anne & Cpt Mark Phillips. Anotonia Fraser-Coronets & Orange Blossom-2pp illus.) £4.00

22/2/74. (D Pryce-Jones on Holy Trench Warfare; J Cheever-short story.) £4.00

8/3/74. (L Birch-Nine to Five covers most of your life; C Beaton on Lily Elsie.) £4.00

22/3/74. (Spires Inspired by Sanctity. Keble College, Oxford by John Betjeman. 4pp illustrated with photographs by Patrick Ward.) £12.00

19/4/74. (L Birch on Tom Harrison-the Mass Observer; P Quennel on Byron; Spender on Bryon's poetry.) £4.00

26/4/74. (D Pryce-Jones-3pp story with a cutting of £No Paella Please, We're British-2pp.) £3.00

3/5/74. (Four articles on The Defence of Britain by R Cox, A Clark & D Shears-13pp illus.) £3.00

31/5/74. (P J Kavanagh pays tribute to the man behind ITMA, his father.) £5.00

9/6/74. (The Nazis in Paris- articles by A Terry-16pp photographed both in colour & black & white-whilst Bruce Chatwin-witnessed some of these events-4pp. Tom Stoppard interviewed by M Amory prior to the opening of Travesties-6pp.) £6.00

21/6/74. (Train of Thought. Graham Greene writes about Staboul Train. The first of a series of introductions for his new Collected Works-1pp . Story by Mel Calman.) £10.00

28/6/74. (Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Spy-prepublication extracts from Le Carre's book with his portrait on the cover. J Cameron discusses Le Carre's success & appeal with him- illus; G Greene's new introduction of The End of the Affair-prepublication of the Collected Edition of this book.) £10.00

5/7/74. (In his new introduction Graham Greene remembers the strange responses that his "A Burnt-Out Case" evoked. 2pp.) £10.00

6/9/74. (P J Kavanagh-Up in the Welsh Hills-6pp illus; J Le Carre on Karl Wescke,4pp.) £5.00

11/10/74. (G Greene on the Pleasures on being Deported. 3pp in which he remembers incidents which he later used in his writing. Painters who changed the course of Painting by K Roberts, etc.) £10.00

8/11/74. (J Bratby-Stifling Art on Paper; C Cookson-interview; R Ingrams on J B Morton,) £4.00

15/11/74. (Graham Greene recalls a friendship with Roger Scott. 2pp J Cameron talks to P Ustinov; R Adams interviewed..) £10.00

22/11/74. (Graham Greene remembers his part in founding of the Anglo-Texan Society. 2pp. Mel Calman-story) £10.00

6/12/74. (G Greeene-Revolutionary Bystander.) £10.00

20/12/74. (G Greene -Remembers Nordahl Grieg with affection.) £10.00

10/1/75. (Where is the other Graham Greene, the man-or men- whose progress through the Word impinges from time to time on the novelist's life & reputation. The last in a series of reminiscenes. 2pp) £10.00

24/1/75. (F Forsyth-Left Out in the Middle; Forever Ambridge by A Masters;etc.) £4.00

14/2/75. (H Fuseli-Unquiet Mind in Age of Reason by E Mullins-cover with reproduction of Silence.) £3.00

21/2/75. (A Ayckbourn talks to Roger Stringer.) £4.00

21/3/75. (John Masters-Times Past, Times Future in Bharat 7pp illus. D Pryce-Jones questions Simon Wiesenthal-4pp.) £4.00

4/4/75. (J Mortimer on J Gielgud,8pp illus.) £4.00

11/4/75. (Truman Capote-a new story; A C Clarke-Fired by the Red Planet.) £5.00

2/5/75 (Old School Ties-Is Eton an Anachronism?) £3.00

13/6/75. (An independent view in Cornwall by A Fraser,5pp illus; C Beaton on of the World's Great Photographers-4pp illus; M Ayrton by J Cameron-5pp illus.etc.) £5.00

8/8/75. (Solzenitsyn on The Third World War; etc.) £6.00

5/9/75. (A Koestler-A Great Writer at Seventy-8pp interview with G Feiffer. F King-Book of the Week. V S Pritchett-Spa of Spas-Baden-Baden-2pp. etc.) £6.00

12/9/75. (A Berry-Aerosolophobia; Dottoressa Moor edited by G Greene-extracts from prepublication.; J Mortimer on H Fonda;etc.) £10.00

21/11/75. (Issue devited to The Cowboy with articles by I Ball, J Masters, G Lyall, A Sinclair, J Beard & James Stewart-the actor.) £4.00

12/12/75.(Muggeridge on Jesus-3pp illus; L Birch on Kaye Webb; A Haden-Guest on Jaws- 6pp illus.) £4.00

19/12/75. (M Muggeridge on Jesus; N Monsarrat investigates Concorde, etc.) £4.00

6/2/76. (D Pyrce-Jones on Alien Within; P Jennings-One Tiny Corpse; etc.) £3.00

20/2/76. (Graham Greene talks about The Man Within-A Young Man's Fancy in his new preface to his first novel.) £10.00

27/2/76 (Graham Greene recalls the wintry origin of the Third Man-2pp.) £10.00

5/3/76. (Graham Greene recalls the experiences on which he based Loser Takes All.) £10.00

12/3/76. (Graham Greene describes the nightmare which led to the writing of the Comedians. 2pp) £10.00

11/6/76. (D Pryce-Jones on L & R Whistler, 5pp illus.) £3.00

30/7/76. (J Masters-Leaving the World Below, 4pp illus.) £5.00

3/9/76. (D Hart meets E Ardizzone,4pp illus.) £4.00

3/10/76. (A Sillitoe £ Only the Lazy are Bored; J Cameron interviews Roald Dahl; etc.) £5.00

31/10/76. (Tennessee Williams-looking Back in Candour.) £5.00

5/12/76. (Richard Gordon-Avenues to Happiness-1pp. Betjeman on the Boards by Denys Parsons. Goff's Houses. Crafts in Britain by K Hurren & Craft Awards.) £8.00

19/12/76. (Trauma in a Tea Cup by J Braine, etc.) £4.00

20/3/77. (Graham Greene in the jungle, politics & disputes of Panama-5pp.) £10.00

1/5/77. (J Osborne looks back in Satisfaction-2pp, illus) £5.00

8/5/77. (Edward James - Collector of Surrealism by P Boyle; A C Clarke on Pentominoes; D Du Maurier-My Sunday; P Jennings-Is it a Constable?) £5.00

15/5/77. (My Sunday by Richard Adams; Best Friends-M Whitehouse, Leslie Thomas, Hardy Amies.) £4.00

29/5/77. (Veruschka..on the road to Surrealism by D Pyrce-Jones-5pp illus; E Jane Howard-My Sunday, etc.) £4.00

5/6/77. (My Sunday by J Braine; K Nielsen's paintings.) £4.00

19/6/77.(V S Naipaul revisits his native India, 6pp illus.) £4.00

26/6/77. (Tom Stoppard intervewed by J Bradshaw-3pp.) £5.00

4/9/77. (The missing chapter from Alice with R Steadman's illus-6pp. with Extracts from the words & sketches of Alice Liddell in Sunday Times 10/10/78 plus postcard of the Lewis Carroll Memorial at Llandudno. 3 items.) £10.00

11/9/77. (H Carpenter on J R R Tolkien.) £4.00

18/9/77. (J Fenton on Pam Ayres & her poetry.5pp illus. The Mal is not Imaginaire by A Burgess. 2pp, etc.) £4.00

4/12/77. (I Johnstone meets A MacLean-5pp.)Wraps torn on staples. £4.00

8/1/78. (P J Kavanagh on Love at first site; extract from E Healey's Lady Unknown.) £5.00

14/5/78. (R Steadman-An Artist's Eye on Israel-8pp illus;M Kingsley on Steadman-4pp illus; A First look at the Hockney "Flute" designs-5pp illus.) £5.00

3/9/78. (N Monsarrat-Answering the call of the Ocean-4pp.) £4.00

1/10/78. (Beverley Nichols the Essence of F-Ness-2pp; J R Taylor on Hitchcock; Winning Word Spinners-Craig Raine, F Kelly, J Johnson.) £4.00

26/11/78. (Truman Capote by A T Fleming-7pp illus; I Asimov-3pp.) £5.00

21/1/79. (P H Newby-The Fading World; A C Clarke is interviewed by P Purser; Poems by V Linton; V S Pritchett on the Spanish Town of Ronda..) £5.00

25/2/79. (Profile of Uwe George by D Pryce-Jones; article by Uwe George; S Alter-extract from his first novel.) £4.00

25/3/79. (E Jane Howard-Child's, 6pp story; P Moore.) £5.00

1/4/79. (R Steadmen's Vision of King Lear;-4pp.) Wraps torn. £4.00

22/4/79. (Fun at the Fifth Hole with the poem of Sir John(Betjeman); £6.00

3/6/79. (N Gordimer-Lunch in the Park -4pp story.) £5.00

10/6/79. (Moura Lympany interviewed by R Stringer; E Mullins on the Hans Mettler Collection; Short story by Diana Winsor; D Pryce-Jones,etc.) £3.00

24/6/79. (Wimbledon Edition. John McEnroe interviewed by I Brodie; L Langley meets Cubby Broccoli; Mordillo cartoon.) £3.00

8/7/79. (Edna O'Brien by C Davies-5pp illus.) £3.00

15/7/79. (M Cohen-Some of the unknown letters written by Lewis Carroll-4pp illus.) £4.00

5/8/79. (D Hart interviews Lady Falkender; R Hammond Innes on The Kyber Pass; D Winsor meets the painter John Mackay. R Stringer meets the surrealist painter, H R Giger,etc.) £3.00

12/8/79. (Alan Bold-No Holds Bard; R Beardwood visits Liechenstein-Postage Stamp Pricipality; John Masters interviewed by M Law; R Stringer meets H R Giger- the ultimate monster designer; Mordillo cartoon.) £4.00

9/9/79. (H Boll-short story; P Purser tracks down some Battle of Britain pilots-5pp illus; Hammond Innes on the War of the Big Boats.) £5.00

23/9/79. (R Steadman on Freud-6pp illus; O Nash-Terse Verse-2pp illus; V S Naipaul by L Blandford-4pp illus.) £5.00

30/9/79. (Life in China by Arthur Miller-14pp illus.) £5.00

28/10/79. (J Coldstream on Abba; Tom Wolfe on the first Supersonic Flight; Article on Stephen Hawking by J Hornsby & I Ridpath; Mordillo cartoon.) £5.00

18/11/79. (R Ingrams on John Piper as editor of the Shell County Guides-3pp illus; William Styron-Shadrach-5pp story.) £6.00

25/11/79. (P Gilliatt-story; the cartoonist Mordillo interviewed,etc.) £4.00

2/12/79. (R Steadman on Skiing-6pp illus; E J Howard meets Rex Harrison.) £5.00

9/12/79. (W Hildesheimer-short story; D Winsor in Oporto; Mordillo cartoon.) £3.00

16/12/79. (The first extract from J Le Carre£s new novel, "Smiley's People": E Dunn interviews Fay Weldon; etc.) £5.00

23/12/79. (The Frightened Man. An exclusive 4pp extract from John le Carre£s new book. Enoch Powell, etc.) £5.00

2/3/80. (Lawrence of Taos by P S Catling in Taos where D H Lawrence is well remembered. Auberon Waugh on Tom Sharle-3pp illus.) £3.00

9/3/80. (African Story. Robin Page talks to Elspeth Huxley whose latest book tells of her mother£s life in Kenya.) £3.00

16/3/80. (Fitzroy Maclean £Inside the Soviet Union:2-6pp illus.) £3.00

20/4/80. (Johanna Kaplin "Loss of Memory is only temporary"-short story.) £3.00

27/4/80. ('You'll never learn to fly,' the instructor told Amy Johnson.-2pp illus; The Blitz in colour-James Cameron tells the story of Rosie Newman's Perseverance-9pp illus. etc.) £3.00

15/6/80 (Morris Lurie-Tokyo Teapot-story; ) £3.00

15/3/81. (J Huston talks to P Gilliatt-5pp illus; P Phillips on the paintings of J Verame; with her Profile-30/10/83 & Public Eye, Private Places-1pp cutting from Sunday Times Magazine 9/10/1977. 3 items. £4.00

27/9/81. (I McEwan-a chapter from his new book prepublication-4pp.) £4.00

25/10/81. (D H Lawrence-A Lost story appears at Last-first published here-7pp illus. with a brochure advertising the complete pocket edition of his Novels & Tales-1930; & Celebrations in the Country of my Heart-6pp illus by Melvyn Bragg extracted from Sunday Times Magazine-30/12/84. 3 items.) £10.00

16/5/82. (Desmond Morris-The Price of Eggs. Poet & Pope-John Paul£s poems reveal the man behind the public figure.) £4.00

12/9/82. (Auberon Waugh meets Graham Greene-5pp.) £5.00

10/10/82. The Echoing Lines of Remembrance. Ivor Gurney wrote poems about his fallen comrade & Kavanagh follows the names back to the Somme-4pp. £8.00

30/10/83. (P Gilliatt on books & films,etc.) £3.00

17/6/84. (A Burgess-There will be Other Worlds-2pp illus. Tom Wolfe-Viddies in the Scepter£d Isle-5pp illus. Brian Aldiss-Utopia begins at Home 2pp illus. P Oakes- Steps to Serenity Park, 2pp. F Raphael-World Cleansed of Wallies.2pp) £5.00

18/11/84. (L Durrell-Lamas in a French Forest-7pp illus;P Moore by G Wansell-1pp; £8.00

22/2/87. (Anthony Burgess talks to A T Ellis-3pp illus. >Philip Oakes - My Country right or wrong£ 1pp, etc.) £4.00

31/7/88. (L Ellman interviewed with an extract from her novel based on the experience of watching her father die; C Cookson-My Country Right or Wrong?) £4.00

28/8/88 (N Shakespeare meets Graham Greene in Antibes prior to the publication of his latest book The Captain and the Enemy.) £6.00

25/2/89. (John Mortimer meets the Lord Chancellor.4pp illus.) £4.00

28/7/90 (The Queen Mother in Close £Up-Candid photographs from 90 years-special Birthday issue with articles on The Queen Mother.) £3.00

9/7/94. (I Spy by Michael Shelden in which he reveals that Graham Greene's novels were rooted in his own life, in his intimate knowledge of the world of espionage.1.5pp) £6.00

26/9/98. (Exclusive - Winston & Clementine Churchill-their intimate letters.13pp illus adapted by Mary Soames.) £4.00

26/02/00. (Tom Wolfe on Frederick Hart -"The genius they chose to ignore" 4pp illus. Andrea's Ashes visits her old primary school with R Chesshyre-4pp illus.) £4.00