Close Up: [Cover Subtitle: The only magazine devoted to films as an art [Complete runs of Volumes III-IX (seven bound volumes)]

Published by POOL, Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland/ London, 1928

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FIRST EDITIONS, seven volumes: III:1-6, IV:1-6; V:1-6, VI:1-6, VII:1-6, VIII:1-4 & IX:1-4. Five small 4tos (monthly format) and two large 4tos (quarterly format), with the original orange and black printed wrappers, with b/w film still to front wrapper (of first issue only) bound at the front and rear of each volume. Quarter orange cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, cream marbled paper boards. Very well-handled: toned, warped and worn, insect-damaged and paint-flecked. Vol. III lacks cover still to front wrapper bound in; splits to joints of vol. IV; vol V. cracked rear hinge; spine cracked in vol. VI, but binding firm; vol IX: top corner of upper board badly damaged, echo of bump into top corners of text block. All vols: edges and endpapers toned, some foxing, occasional pencil notes, else, internally, clean and bright, mostly tight. Good+ to fair An unusual collection of seven (of ten) bound volumes of POOL's pioneering and pan-European film magazine, Close Up (1927-1933), likely in the original bindings, with adverts describing: "Reference books for future" with "orange cloth-back board volumes are priced at 10 shillings". Including both its monthly and quarterly formats. Amply illustrated with wonderful b/w stills (in part, to help circumvent British censorship of foreign films) and with original adverts, which helped fund the venture, alongside Bryher's familial wealth. Co-edited by Bryher, with Kenneth Macpherson at the helm, and featuring contributions from a wide spectrum of modernists and early film writers and practitioners, including H.D., Dorothy Richardson, Hanns Sachs, Harry A. Potamkin, Robert Herring, Clifford Howard, Marc Allagret, Jean Lenauer, S. M. Eisenstein, Geraldyn Dismond, Elmer Carter, Paul Rotha, Roger Burford, Yasushi Oguno, A. Kraszna-Krausz, Pearl Attasheva, and Erno Metzner. …

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Title
Close Up: [Cover Subtitle: The only magazine devoted to films as an art [Complete runs of Volumes III-IX (seven bound volumes)]
Author
MACPHERSON, K[enneth] and BRYHER (editors); BLAKESTON, Oswell, H.D., RICHARDSON, Dorothy,
Publisher
POOL, Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland/ London
Publication year
1928
Condition
Good+
Binding
Quarter cloth, paper boards
Seller catalogs
Little Magazine, Stage & Screen

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Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We also hold a small general stock, with a focus on rare, significant and bonny books. We trade at fairs, online and via catalogue.

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