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0 Includes illustrations. Very good. light shelf wear, protected in stiff brodart.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. "The Mint : A Miscellany of Literature, Art and Criticism", as edited by Geoffrey Grigson, was published by George Routledge and Sons. It is eclectic in its choices, but that eclecticism managed to include a number of strikingly important writers and thinkers of the immediate post Second World War intellectual Scene. There is a brief blurb on the dust-jacket, from which the following is excerpted : " THE MINT is an international miscellany of humanism, aiming to collect articles, poems, stories which have more than the topicality of the day. Another of its aims is to bring together the divorced couple of our time scholarship and original writing." **************************************************** CONTENTS -- Martin Buber : The Education of Character / W. H. Auden : Four Poems / Seán O'Casey : The Raid / Graham Greene : Convoy to West Africa / Geoffrey Matthews : Five Poems / E. J. Scovill : Three Poems / Anthony West : The Precious Myth / Geoffrey Grigson : William Barnes / Rhys Davies : A Drop pf Dew / W. J. Turner : The Theme of Love / Nikolaus Pevsner : the Architecture of Mannerism (with 13 halftone black-and-white photographs arranged in a discrete section) / Owen Barfield : The Psalms of David / John Clare : Poems and Fragments (Not previously published) / H. W. Häusermann : W. B. Yeats's Idea of Shelley / James T. Farrell : The Language of Hollywood / Christopher Salmon : Broadcasting, Speech, and Writing ********************************************** TITLE : The Mint : A Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Criticism / EDITOR : Geoffrey Grigson (1905 - 1985 - British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. ) / AUTHORS : W. H. Auden, Martin Buber, Seán O'Casey, Graham Greene, Anthony West, John Clare, et al / IMPRINT : George Routledge & Sons / PLACE : London / DATE : (1946) / EDITION : First Edition / STATUS : OP / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade hardcover; contains a foreword; has 13 halftone black-and-white photographs, printed on calendered paper and arranged in a discrete section; xii + 220 pages (plus 8 un-numbered pages of photographs); 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; pale brown (yellow-brown) cloth-covered boards and spine; gilt lettering on spine, with the word MINT stamped against a bright orange panel within a simple gilt line border; dust-jacket printed in dark brown and gray against a buff background. ******************************************* CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD -- JACKET : FAIR -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- Compression to spine extremities; fraying and a spot of color loss just starting at head of spine; gilt lettering bright; boards display modest surface rub; bottom edges of boards are somewhat shelf-rubbed; corner tips are softly bumped and front bottom corner tip has slight fraying. Text-block edges are clean. / BINDING -- The book has obviously been read and thus the leaves open readily, however no leaves are detached or loose and the whole remains fairly solid. / INTERIOR -- The verso of the title page is scuffed, else the interior is clean and free of marking. No writing - no signatures. / DUST-JACKET -- Rough, with loss to top and bottom edges, serious crimping and small tears to edges. A clear mylar cover has been added to prevent further wear, and continue the jacket's purpose of protecting the cover.