Roger Roughton Ed (10 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Pp. [141]-176; 8vo, stapled wrapper. This issue includes a short story by Allott, Scarfe, and Gascoyne and a poem by Eluard. Good copy; some spotting on front cover and a few spots on first leaf, small area of dampstain to lower right corner (cover and pages).

May. 15 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Empson, Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Gacoyne, Gavin Ewart, and Roughton contribute.

Spring. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Henry Moore. Lautréamont, Dylan Thomas, Jarry, Rimbaud, George Barker, and many more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 47, [1] pp., 8vo, stapled card wrapper. Very good copy overall; contents fine, wrapper dust and finger-soiled.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pp. [ii], 107-118, [2], 8vo, stapled card wrapper. A short-lived little magazine that ran for only ten numbers (May 1936-Autumn 1937). "Published from the Arts Café, No. 1 Parton St, London, this was one of the magazines responsible for widening the knowledge of surrealist literature in Britain in the 1930s" (Miller & Price A41). Very good copy, with mild age-toning at the wrapper edges and a short light corner crease.

August-September. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. As if six Picasso poems were not enough, work also by Dali, Breton, Cummings, Péret, Dylan Thomas, and others.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 16pp.-50pp. + a few subscription forms tipped in. A rare complete set of 'one of the magazines responsible for widening the knowledge of surrealist literature in Britain in the 1930s' (Miller and Price). Issue 2 is a special Surrealist number, double issue 4/5 includes six poems by Pablo Picasso plus Salvador Dali on Picasso, issue 6 contains selections from 'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont, and loosely inserted in issue 7 is the very scarce 'Declaration on Spain' issued by the Surrealist Group in England. Other contributors include Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Jarry, Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Saint-John Perse, Tristan Tzara, Rene Char, Benjamin Peret, Georges Hugnet, E. L. T. Mesens, Henry Moore (cover of issues 9 and 10), Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Horace Gregory, William Empson, Ruthven Todd, George Barker, Hugh Sykes Davies, Valentine Penrose, Kenneth Allott, Gavin Ewart, Francis Scarfe, Isaac Babel, and Roughton. Staples rusty, the wrappers rubbed and spotted/marked in places, a couple with pencilled prices to the front, those of issue 1 with an unobtrusive chip to the fore edge and splitting at the spine (but secure), issue 9 also split at the base of the spine, the contents generally clean however. Issue 2 has the ownership inscription of Nicholas Moore (as does issue 1, though it is faded or perhaps erased), and the set is held in a cloth-backed box.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 36pp. Contributors include: Babel, Humphrey Jennings, David Gascoyne, Sheila Legge, P Eluard, W G Archer, Jack Lindsay, Antonia White, etc. Rare modernist left-wing journal that supported Marxism and Surrealism.' Staples slightly rusty.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 19pp. Contributors include: Lorca, Alberti, V Penrose, R B Fuller and Ezra Pound with a diatribe against 'The Coward Surrealists' which is answered by the editor. Rare left-wing journal. Lacks the loose insert 'Declaration on Spain'. Cover a bit dulled.

pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Includes the loose insert 'Declaration on Spain' Lorca, Alberti, V Penrose, R B Fuller and Ezra Pound.