The Open Window (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo (12 cm x 15 cm). Blue printed wraps, beige spine. pp 260- 324 and 11pp ads at rear. Uncut. 2 plates (Maxwell Armfield, Norman Wilkinson). Contributors include C. E. Wheeler, Herbert Trench, Hugh de Selincourt, Keith Henderson. Sound clean VG.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo (12 cm x 15 cm). Original publisher's blue printed wraps, beige spine. pp 289- 359, [iv], and 13pp ads at rear. Uncut. 2 illustrations (Maxwell Armfield, Keith Henderson). Contributors include Hugh de Selincourt, Henry Stratton, Lord Dunsany (From the Mouse's Point of View), Harold Child, Basil Home, Vivian Locke Ellis. Very slight soiling but sound VG.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. 12 issues bound in 2 from the original parts, all published between October 1910 - September 1911. [ix], 376, iv; [vi], 358, iv pp. 15 black and white plates; 10 black and white plates. Cream buckram with burgundy leather labels and gilt lettering to spine. A couple of marks to boards, with bumping to darkened spine ends and rubbing to labels. Spine lean to first volume. Bookplate of Julius and Marjorie Bertram. Minor and scattered foxing. 'The Open Window' was a monthly illustrated magazine published in West & Central London, running for six months from October 1910, and then five months from April 1911. Contains Katherine Mansfield's first every publication, as well as works by Edward Thomas, James Stephens, Frank Swinnerton, E. M. Forster, Herbert Trench, Keith Henderson, Maxwell Armfield, W. H. Davies, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Jack B. Yeats, Claude Shepperton, Norman Wilkinson, Auguste Rodin, Muirhead Bone, Gwen Raverat (as Gwendolen Darwin). 24mo. Magazine / Journal.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Near Fine. 12 issues bound in 2, published between October 1910 - September 1911. [10], 376, iv, [32] ads ; [10], iv, [30] pp. Elegant half cream buckram over decorative boards with gilt-tooled lettering to spine. Uncut. Light discolouration to top of boards, leaves toned but clean throughout. Bookplates to paste-down of vol. 1 and small inscriptions in ink to rear endpapers. 'The Open Window' was a monthly illustrated magazine published in West & Central London, running for six months from October 1910, and then five months from April 1911. These 2 volumes contain the full 12 issues, the third issue containing Katherine Mansfield's first published work 'A Fairy Story'. Written contributions include: Edward Thomas, E. M. Forster, George Bourne, Katherine Mansfield, Maxwell Armfield, Douglas Goldring, W. H. Davies, Geoffrey Whitworth, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Walter de la Mare and Vivian Locke Ellis etc. Artworks contributors include: C . J. Holmes, John Sloane, Auguste Rodin, Maxwell Armfield, C. M. Gere, Jack B Yeats. Adverts and a pair of wraps bound in. 16mo.