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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 286 pp. Good condition; pen underlining in various parts.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Previous owner's name heavily blacked out at top of title page, otherwise VG. Spine not creased. Includes references and index. 460pp. Book.

5 Hardback books. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 5000 pages. 12.25x9.75x11.75 inches. In Stock.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 5. No. 19 - August 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. ***Includes the poems: "New Year in the Midlands" and "Chandeliers and Shadows" - these being the first published appearance by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, preceded only by his juvenilia. ***Front cover mandala type illustration by Sean Jennett. ***Near fine in the original thin blue illustrated stapled covers. The covers are remarkably clean and unmarked, with just light rubbing to the fragile spine. No significant creasing, just very light corner creases. Complete with the subscription slip present bound inside the rear cover. Hardly any of the usual foxing. Interior pages clean. Covers clean. No inscriptions. ***32 pages (plus adverts on inside of covers, including an advert for the forthcoming publication of "The Rent That's Due to Love" by Gwyn Williams and "The Pallisades of Fear" by Ronald Bottrall - Editions Poetry London. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: David Wright 'Verses from Northamptonshire', Gavin Ewart and Jack Clark 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', Louis Johnson 'On the Road', Harold Pinter 'New Year in the Midlands' and 'Chandeliers and Shadows', Donald Davie 'Christmas Week, 1948', Allen Curnow 'Elegy on my Father', B. A. Giles 'Europa', Peter Jackson 'I, Who Would Not See His Death', and 'On Mornings Claiming Kinship with the Sun', E. H. Kesterton 'Nostalgia, with a Little Despair' and 'Poem in the Manner of Seferis the Greek', Ruth Tenny 'The One Eternal', 'The New Age', 'The Wage' and Snare, Hook and Words'. ***Points of View: 'A Modern Tragedy' by Christopher Hassall, 'Prophets and Tramps' by Paul Dehn, 'What a Party!' by Jon Manchip White and 'The Recovery of Tradition' by S/ L. Bethell. ***Vol. 5. No. 19 - the nineteenth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, published five years after the Second World War, and in remarkably good condition considering the fragility of the publication. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London. and the early work of Harold Pinter. ***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. Sean Jennett (Cover design) (illustrator).…