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First edition. 8vo, 243pp, b/w illus. Good hardback copy in creased, price clipped dust jacket with chipped edges. Top corner of front free endpaper torn off. Some offsetting to endpapers. Edges foxed. Contains poems by Dylan Thomas, Hugh MacDiarmid, Patrick Kavanagh, Stephen Spender and an illustrated essay, 'How a Romantic Novel was Evolved', by Mervyn Peake.…

Condition: Good. 8vo., 243 pp., Very Good, Red Cloth, Dust Jacket with water staining, sun-fading, tears, losses (especially a big portion missing from a corner tucked inside cover), rubbing & edge wear; staining on FFEPs, some pages, & edges of text block; shelf wear. Former owner's bookplate on FEP: 7 Arts Book Shop, Walnut Creek. Some Pages Uncut. Illustrations. First Edition.…

First Edition. London, Grey Walls Press, 1949. 8vo, 244 pages. Four black and white plates by Mervyn Peake. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine, dust jacket. Edges foxed, slight soiling on top of dust jacket and creasing in spine of jacket, gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1949. § First edition. The definitive anthology of New Romantic writers, including the essay "How a Romantic Novel was Evolved" written and illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Other section focus on Romanticism in Irish, Welsh, and Scottish poetry.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. A very smart first edition of an exploration into the New Romantic Movement by the leading members of such revival. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.In the original cloth binding.With four monochrome plates.This work thoroughly and engagingly explores The New Romantic Movement, a term used for the revival of the romanticism within writing during the years of war.It includes essays that reference various works, most notably poems ranging origins from Irish to Welsh. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the original cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is also in very smart condition. Light edge wear to extremities and stamped pricing over original flyleaf price, which is still visible. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean and bright with scattered spotting to the end papers and fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Very Good Indeed. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First Edition. A New Romantic Anthology, gathers a bold and wide-ranging selection of mid-century poetry and prose intended to define and champion the editorsâ âNew Romanticâ movement. The pieces emphasise intensity of feeling, imaginative freedom and a rejection of the pared-back austerity that shaped much 1930s writing. Voices across the collection explore myth, emotion and visionary experience, offering a vivid snapshot of a literary moment pushing back against realism and restraint. First Edition.…