Language: English
Published by Horizon, Selwyn House, London, 1940
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 76 pages. Stephen Spender "The Essential Housman" / Frederic Prokosch "Sunburned Ulysees" / J A Spender "Letter to a Nephew" / Laurie Lee "A Moment Of War" (poem) / Nicholas Moore "The Light Days" / Clement Greenberg "Avant-Garde And Kitsch" / V S Pritchett "The Saint" / Montgomery Belgion "French Chronicle".
Published by Hogarth Press, London, 1944
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Keith Vaughan (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 168. Illustrated with two leaves of black & white photo reproductions. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine: spine titles soiled, edges age-toned; ink marks on front endpaper. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, flap price of 10s. 6d. intact. Dust jacket with edge-wear and chips at head and tail of spine. Fifth installment of Lehmann's hard-back periodical, a well-curated miscellany of British, Dominion and foreign writing. Includes work by Andre Gide, Stephen Spender, Jiri Mucha, Antoine de Saint Exupery, V. S. Pritchett, et al. A piece by Harold Acton, is illustrated with the photo feature, addresses current popular theater in China. Produced under wartime economic restrictions, the inferior paper has darkened but the text remains bright. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.