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Published by The London Magazine, London, 1961
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 97 each number. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions. Publisher's red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, subscription card laid in: corners bumped, several leaves at the beginning of No. 2 with a short tear near the gutter in an apparent binding mishap. In the red-on-black laminated dust jacket with price 21s intact on the front flap: corners bumped. First five issues of the periodical under Alan Ross, following the retirement of John Lehmann. In an introduction Ross outlines the change from a review of literature to a review of the arts and a new design. Beautifully typeset and printed at the Shenval Press, as advertised on a preliminary leaf.Contributors include Cyril Connoly, Ted Hughes, Eugene Ionesco, Christopher Isherwood, Philip Larkin, Otto Klemperer, Sylvia Plath, Lotte Lenya, Bertolt Brecht, Ned Rorem, Theodore Roethke, Michel Butor. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve. .