Published by Barrie & Rockliff, London 1961 [and] X, London 1961-62., 1961
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A complete run of all seven issues bound into two volumes. Individual volumes as follows: 'X. A Quarterly Review. Volume One 1960-61' (Barrie & Rockliff, London 1961). First collected edition, of which 800 copies were printed. Tall 8vo. 328pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with the publisher's vibrant pink top edge stain. A virtually fine copy of the collected edition of the first four issues, in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. 'Volume Two 1961-62'. The final three issues [i.e. volume 2, issues 1 3] bound into green cloth and omitting the original card wrappers. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy. The first volume, comprising issues 1-4 was officially bound and printed by Barrie & Rockliff, but the second volume appear to be the work of an individual and contains no imprint details bar those of the original three issues that comprise the whole. The complete run of this British review of literature and the arts which ran for a total of seven issues between 1959 and 1962. Includes contributions by Samuel Beckett, George Barker, Ezra Pound, Patrick Kavanagh, David Gascoyne, Hugh MacDiarmid, Stevie Smith, C. H. Sisson, Robrt Nye, Anthony Cronin, Robert Graves, Boris Pasternak, Vernon Watkins, Geoffrey Hill, John MaGahern, Dannie Abse, Malcolm Lowry, John Heath-Stubbs, Brian Higgins, Martin Seymour-Smith, Thomas Blackburn, and Nathaniel Tarn. Also includes reproductions of artworks by Frank Auerbach, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, David Bomberg, Alberto Giacommetti, André Masson, and Oskar Kokoschka.