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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 98 pages. Stephen Spender "The Life of Literature" / THE CREATIVE LIFE IN OUR TIME: Letters by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V S Pritchett / Paul Valery "The Angel" / Horace Gregory "In George Sand's Garden" / Stephen Spender "The Life Of Literature" / Richard Chase "Dissent On Billy Budd".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 84 pages. Morton Dauwen Zabel "Archibald MacLeish: The Poet On Capitol Hill (Part I) / Dwight Macdonald "Reading fro Left to Right" / Alan Mather "Functionalism and Naive Materialism in American Architecture" / Robert Fitzgerald "Cross Country: Notes on a Journey" / George L K Morris "Metropolitan Storage Warehouse" / William Petersen "What Has Become Of European Writers And Artists/ A Check List".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Soft cover, has a nick on the bottom of the front cover. We have many other back issues dating to 1938. Email us for a list and a great price if you purchase more than one book. We ship fast.

Paperback. 258-252p., softbound item, 9x6 inch journal wraps. soiled and toned along vertical edge of cover but copy inside is in good condition. Mary McCarthy "The Man in the Brooks brothers Shirt", Paul Mattick "How New is the 'new Order' of Fascism?", George Orwell "London Letter", more.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have general light shelf wear, age-darkening. ; Contents: Arendt, "The Crisis in Education"; Merwin, "Four Poems"; Mailer, "Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out"; Poggioli, "Boris Pasternak"; Deutscher, "The Wandering Jew as Thinker and Revolutionary"; Rosenberg, "Roadside Arcadia"; Podhoretz, "The New Nihilism and the Novel"; Marcus, "Three Obsessed Critics"; reviews; Santayana, "On Existentialism; An Unpublished Letter"; index to volume XXV. ; 9.0" tall; 146 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. Includes a Richard Wilbur poem, an Irving Howe review of a biography of George Orwell, and work by a range of other important contributors. Unmarked copy with some toning to spine and covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes illustrations by Kurt Seligmann and contributions from Saint-John Perse, Robert Lowell, many others (including a contemporaneous review of an Orwell essay collection). Unmarked copy with a bit of toning and soil to covers and light bump to one corner. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes an early story by Saul Bellow, reactions to Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize by Auden, Orwell, et al., plus Greenberg on Braque, other interesting content. Unmarked copy with ring stain to cover and a little toning. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. First printing, softcover, has strong bumps with slight creasing to the covers and text block at the spine ends and corners, light sunning to the spine, foxing starting to the front cover with slight rubbing and some smudges to both covers, and some slight shelfwear to the edges. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Good+ copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. Light signs of age to the covers. Very Good. 1st Edition. pp: [viii] 505 - 608. Volume XIX, No. 5. Beige printed card covers. This edition contains 'Such, Such Were The Joys' by George Orwell. This was the first appearance of the piece, an autobiographical essay. Orwell describes part of his youth during The First World War. The magazine was started by The John Reed Club, 1930s as an organ for communist politics. It has evolved by the 50s into a more moderate voice. At some point in the 50s it got funding from the CIA. This edition is one of a few of special note. Other contributors include; Theodore Roethke, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Max Lerner, Melvin Lasky, and Barbara Guest. A well preserved very good copy with some toning along the edges. The first two preliminary pages (advertisements) have toning left from an insert.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes Norman Mailer's Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out, plus contributions from Hannah Arendt, W. S. Merwin, and a range of other major contributors. Unmarked copy with patch of abrasion loss to front cover, light toning and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes George Orwell (on The Future of Socialism), Delmore Schwartz, Louis Zukofsky, Mary McCarthy, and contributions from other prominent figures. Unmarked copy with some toning/soil,reading wear, and bumping. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 124 pages. George Orwell "London Letter" / Robert Penn Warren (Cass Mastern's Wedding Ring" / Hannah Arendt "Franz Kafka: A Revaluation" / Jean Stafford "A Reunion" / Elizabeth Bishop "Sonds For A Colored Singer" (poems) / Saul Rosenzweig "The Ghost Of Henry James" / Daniel Bell "Word Surrealism".

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback - clean, clean cover, no marks - from private collection -.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes a quarter-page advertisement for Kenneth Anger's pioneering experimental film Fireworks (available for 16mm rental), plus a George Orwell essay on Mahatma Gandhi and work from other prominent figures. Unmarked copy with toning/soil to covers and spine. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes "The Trip to Galena," a section from Saul Bellow's ultimately uncompleted third novel "The Crab and the Butterfly." Also writing by James Burnham, Hannah Arendt, Robert Lowell, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of cover soil and toning, small corner folds to a few preliminary leaves, spine is faded. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover, light signs of age and marks. We have many back issues. Email us for a list. We will discount if you purchase more than one issue --email us. We ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Scarce and historic early issue, includes a reconsideration of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry by Horace Gregory, and contributions from other important writers. Unmarked copy with some toning and wear to the acidic wrappers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Scarce and historic early issue, includes poetry by Williams and Patchen, and contributions from other important writers. Unmarked copy with some toning and wear to the acidic wrappers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 98 pages. T.S.Eliot "The Music Of Poetry" / George Orwell "London Letter" / Edmund Wilson "Ellen Terhune" / Dwight Macdonald "Political Notes" / Philip Rahv "On The Decline Of Naturalism" / Melvin J Lasky "Portrait of an Historian" Horace Gregory "Police Sergeant Malone And The Six Dead Drinkers" (poem).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. A scarce and historic early issue, includes a London Letter from George Orwell, an essay by T. S. Eliot, and contributions from other important writers. Corner chips to acidic wrappers and two interior pages; two later pages of Edmund Wilson story have minor pencil markings. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. Scarce and historic early issue, includes The British Crisis by George Orwell, a review of Ernst Juenger's On the Marble Cliffs by Werner Bloch (preceding its English translation by 5 years), as well as reviews by Auden and Isherwood and contributions from other important writers. Unmarked copy; nick at top edge affecting front cover and early leaves; a little toning, wear and soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. This scarce and historic early issue includes a London Letter from George Orwell and verse by Roethke, Roditi, and Barbara Howes. Unmarked copy with some toning, creasing and soil to wrappers and some general reading wear; staples have a bit of rust. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this scarce and historic early issue. Includes responses to Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls by Lionel Trilling and Dwight Macdonald, a poem by David Gascoyne, letters from Jackson Mac Low and Elliott Carter, other indicators of the ferment of the era. Unmarked copy, wrappers have typical toning. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Dwight Macdonald "National Defense: The Case For Socialism" / Karl J Shapiro "Death Of Emma Goldman" / Morton Dauwen Zabel "Rimbaud: Life And Legend" / James T Farrell "The Cultural Front" / Louis MacNeice "The Preacher" (poem) / Paul Goodman "February, 1938" / Reuel Denney "The Wolf, The Muskrat, And The Crow" / Clement Greenberg "Towards A Newer Laocoon".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 80pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Nice copy of this rare wartime issue, includes writing by Louise Bogan (reviewing a biography of Joyce), Clement Greenberg, letters from Katherine Anne Porter and William Saroyan, other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, wrappers have some toning and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Near Good (front cover reattached). 8vo, 64pp (plus Hans Arp plates), printed wrappers. Rare prewar issue, includes a poem by Delmore Schwartz, plus contributions from other prominent writers. Unmarked copy with mostly chipped spine; front cover has been neatly reattached with archival adhesive; general soil and edgewear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Rare prewar issue, includes a letter from Trotsky to Andre Breton, Lionel Trilling on Hemingway, reviews by Delmore Schwartz and Clement Greenberg, other indicators of the ferment of the era. Unmarked copy, fold line to front cover and first two leaves, small scorch line to one interior page, wrappers have typical toning. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 98 pages. George Orwell "A Letter From England" / Andre Gide "Wartime Journal 1940" / Sidney Hook "Failure Of The Left" / Allen Tate "Ode: To Our Young Pro-Consuls of the Air" / Mary McCarthy "Theatre Chronicle" / Alex Comfort "English Poetry And The War" / Norbert Guterman "Neither-Nor".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 98 pages. Franz Kafka "Josephine, The Songstress Or, The Mice Nation" / Saul Bellow "The Mexican Gneral" / Eve Merriam 2 poems / Wallace Fowlie "Swann And Hamlet: A Nore on the Contemporary Hero" / Lionel Trilliang "The Sense of the Past".