Hampshire Stuart Newton Sir Warden (2 results)

Softcover. 238 p.; 18 cm. (Pelican books ; A253) [First printed in 1951] Good in edgeworn orig. blue and white wrapper.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See 'Death of a Bookman' by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of 'Books and Bookmen' at the time of Dosse's suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. This item is 1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged and creased and folded twice for postage. Signed 'Stuart Hampshire'. He thanks him for his letter 'arising from the television programme with Melvyn Bragg', and expresses agreement 'about a boycott in South Africa. No British Government could afford the economic cost of severing economic relations with South Africa and of boycotting in that sense. Therefore it is left to artists and sportsmen and playwrights and so on to do the boycotting.' He regrets that he has to decline the invitation to review for 'Books and Bookmen', which he knows 'quite well through Martyn Goff', as he has to 'cut down the amount of reviewing that I do and cannot undertake any more'.