Richard March Nicholas Moore George (1 results)

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Sean Jennett (Cover design), J. Littna (Illustrations) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 5. No. 18 - May 1950 - the eighteenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, edited by Richard March and Nicholas Moore, who had taken over from Tambimuttu. With front cover mandala illustration by Sean Jennett. ***Very good in the original thin blue illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are quite clean - just slightly marked and creased, commensurate with age and handling, but please note that there is an abrasion to the front cover which carries through to the first few pages (please see scans). Corners of some pages very slightly creased. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean with hardly any of the usual foxing. No tears. With the stub of the subscription slip present bound inside the rear cover. ***32 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers, including an advert for the forthcoming publication of 'The Pallisades of Fear' by Ronald Bottrall - Editions Poetry London. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: George Barker 'From The True Confessions of George Barker', James Reeves 'Leaving Town', Gavin Ewart 'Chelsea in Winter', 'Song', 'For a Lady', Vernon Watkins 'Pegasus and the Child', Iain Fletcher 'An Ode Varient Upon Lord Herbert's Iesus Patibilis', Edwin Morgan 'The Sleights of Darkness', Basil Tomlinson 'Poem in Winter', Louis Johnson 'Some Held to Love by Hate', Brean Douglas Newton 'In St. Anthony's Harbour', and Drawings by J. Littna. ***Points of View: The Two Vocations by George Every; Can Criticism be Scientific? by Kenneth Muir; The Falcon in the Skies by David Wright, Spender by James Reeves and The King's Spear by Lynette Roberts. ***Vol. 5. No. 18 - the eighteenth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, published five years after the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.