London Mercury by J C Squire Editor (14 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback. xii, pp. 338-448, xiii-xvi. Contributions by J. B. Priestley. Period advertisements to front and rear. Covers and spine worn. A little occasional spotting to contents. Private ownership. (bs122).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback. xii, pp. 226-336, xiii-xvi. Contributions by Hilaire Belloc and J. B. Priestley. Period advertisements to front and rear. Covers and spine worn, with slight loss to spine ends. Occasional spotting/marking to contents. Private ownership. (bs122).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback. xii, pp. 114-224. Contribution by G. K. Chesterson. Period advertisements to front and rear. Covers and spine worn. Private ownership. (bs122).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Paperback. viii, 96pp. Illus. Covers slightly frayed. Spotting to edges. A decent copy. (h6).

Wraps. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w. First Edition. xvi + pp. 113-224; Covers worn and loose with some chipping and loss particularly to spine; Prelims. also loose else tight and clean; A biographical piece by W.B. Yeats and poetry by Lord Dunsany included also works by Robert Graves, Ernest Bramah, Gordon Bottomley et al; Size: Slim 4to. Journal.

Periodical. Condition: Good. pp xvi + 96 A bright firm textblock with slight browning in a moderately worn/faded wrapper. Pics available Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 108 pages. Cover partially loose, magazine clean and tight. James Stern "The Coming Of The Cloud" / G K Chesterton "If Don John Of Austria Had Married Mary, Queen Of Scots" / Woodcut by M L Hanks / Ethel Smyth "Henry B Brewster: A Memoir" / 7 Pen-drawings by Thomas Derrick / Grace Chapman "Mary Webb" (U.P.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 108 pages. A Woodcut by William Kermode / Poetry by Edmund Blunden, D H Lawrence and Others, Prince Ludwig Of Hesse "Agamemnon Wurstlfing The Dreamer" / Archibald Marshall "Plot" / E K Broadus "The Laureateship" / 3 Pen-Drawings by F G Lodge / Clenne;; Wilkinson "Mr. De La Mare's Islands" / Cicely Boas "The Metre Of 'The Testament Of Beauty'" / R W Chapman "A Literary Fraud" / A Woodcut "The Abduction" by Cicley Griffiths (U.P.).

Wraps. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Printed pale orange wraps. Book store stamp on front cover, foxing on page edges, final 8 leaves and rear cover banged up showing short tears and creases (not affecting text); internally clean and tightly bound. This issue has a poem by D.H. Lawrence "The Triumph of the Machine", many articles, etc.; also a woodcut by Cicely Griffiths "The Abduction". pp. xii, 97-192. Literary Periodical.

Wraps. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Printed pale orange wraps grubby, book store stamp on front cover, foxing on page edges and in page margins at rear of book; otherwise internally clean and tightly bound. This issue has a very attractive woodcut by Cicely Griffiths "Four Bridges at Florence", and many articles, stories, poems, etc. pp. viii, 385-480. Literary Periodical.

First edition. Softcover. Literary journal with contributions by Thedoore Maynard, E.B. Osborn, Kenneth Hare, J.C. Squire, J.B. Priestley and numerous others. An about very good copy in wrappers with some edge wear.

Hardcover. 1st edition. pp. 672. Thick 4to. Bound in brown cloth, top edge gilt with leather spine label. Boards bumped, scuffed, & moderately soiled; contents. slightly age-toned; else binding tight and contents clean. Overall, very good condition. Sir John Collings Squires (1884-1958) was a poet and man of letters, who undertook the editorship of this important literary magazine, and remained in that position until 1934. In 1939 it was incorporated into 'Life and Letters'. This is Volume 4 and contains the complete six issues (numbers 19 to 24) of this periodical. According to Squires: 'In our pages will be found original verse and prose in a volume not possible in a weekly paper; full-length literary essays such as have been found only in politico-literary monthlies; a critical survey of books of all kinds recently published; and other 'features'.' He certainly attracted a panoply of the finest English language writers then living, including G. Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, Max Beerbohm, Walter de la Mare, Robert Graves, Vita Sackville-West, D. H. Lawrence, Alice Meynell, Siegfied Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Blunden, Max Beerbohm, and Edmund Gosse; all of whom contributed unique poems, articles or criticisms to these six issues. Not exactly a pretty book, but sturdy and easily handled - chock-full of the best four pounds of literature one is likely to encounter.

Hardcover. 1st edition. pp. 768. Thick 4to. Bound in brown cloth, top edge gilt with leather spine label. Boards bumped, scuffed, & moderately soiled; contents slightly age-toned; else binding tight and contents clean. Overall, very good condition. Sir John Collings Squires (1884-1958) was a poet and man of letters, who undertook the editorship of this important literary magazine, and remained in that position until 1934. In 1939 it was incorporated into 'Life and Letters'. This volume contains the first six issues of this periodical. According to Squires: 'In our pages will be found original verse and prose in a volume not possible in a weekly paper; full-length literary essays such as have been found only in politico-literary monthlies; a critical survey of books of all kinds recently published; and other 'features'.' He certainly attracted a panoply of the finest English language writers then living, including Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter de la Mare, Alice Meynell, James Elroy Flecker, Aldous Huxley, Hillaire Belloc, Robert Graves, G. K. Chesterton, Edmund Blunden, Max Beerbohm, and Edmund Gosse; all of whom contributed unique poems, articles or criticisms to these first six issues. Not exactly a pretty book, but sturdy and easily handled - chock-full of the best four pounds of literature one is likely to encounter.

2pp., 4to. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. The first page consists of a typescript in two columns, with names scored through and a few added in pencil. The second page has a few typewritten names, together with dozens added in pencil, clearly at different times. From 1919 the London Mercury's original editor J. C. Squire promoted the traditional verse of the Georgian Poets and their prose counterparts; on taking over in October 1934 Scott-James embraced the more fashionable modernist writing, and that change is reflected in the present list. The names on it include 'Miss Scott-James' (clearly a relation), Isaiah Berlin, Olaf Stapleton, Sir Edward Grigg, Leonard Woolf, William Plomer, Rose Macaulay, Alec Waugh, Liddell Hart, C. E. M. Joad, Sean O'Faolain, Edwin Muir, James Hanley, Sir Archibald Hurd. In a few cases the reviewer's specialities are given (for example 'W. A. Ismay (E. Indies mod politics classics)' and 'F. A Clement (archaeology biology . . . short notes)'). In one case an address is given: 'Richard David (Shakespeare etc) 10 Queen St, Cambs'. The London Mercury ceased publication in April 1939.