Seven by Moore Nicholas (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1940. Pamphlet. In original wrappers, 32pp. Lightly scored copy showing some age and minor shelf wear. Remains a very good copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1940. Pamphlet. In original wrappers, 32pp. Lightly scored copy showing some age and minor shelf wear. Remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. Stapled wraps, features work by Miller and Nin among others, has slight bump to upper corner of rear cover with slight crease to upper corner of most of text block, very slight bumps to spine ends and other corners with tiny chip at base of spine, faint rubbing, a touch of edgewear, and some very faint sunning to spine, otherwise a solid, clean VG+ copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good. This was an important quarterly literary published in London by Goodland and Moore. The New Apcocalyptics poetry group were often represented (this issue has poems by G.S. Fraser, Dorian Cooke, J.F. Hendry & Norman McCraig). The first issue of Seven was published in the summer of 1938, and it continued under this title for a total of eight numbers until 1940 (in 1942 the magazine was resurrected and the title was changed to "Seven Magazine of People's Writing" under different editorship). This issue has tan printed, stapled wrappers with brown lettering; Contains: Anais Nin "Rag Time"; Kay Boyles "The Taxi Ride"; William Saroyan "The Poor World Turning"; Andrew young, William Plomer, Laurence Vail, J. F. Hendry, H. A. Beecham, etc. The wrappers soiled and split at top of spine. Both the contents and the wrappers are clean and unmarked. 3 pages of ads in rear. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 38 pages.

Contributors include Lawrence Durrell, Dylan Thomas, Anais Nin & Antonia White. Pages clean; covers grubby; staples rusted, with staining Used - Good. Good stapled paperback magazine Used - Good. Good stapled paperback magazine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers. Modest age-toning, small stains, a very good copy in printed wrappers. Short lived literary magazine, this issue includes contributions by Henry MIller ("The Brooklyn Bridge"), George Barker, Anaïs Nin, Frederic Prokosch, Ruthven Todd, Lawrence Durrell, and others. Signed twice by Prokosch at his contributions, changing the title of one poem, and noting that another was never reprinted. Scarce.

Taunton: John Goodland and Nicholas Moore, 1938-1940. Crown 8vo., 8 volumes; stapled wrappers printed in a variety of colours with '7' design, ads to lower, many for 'Delta' magazine; printed throughout in black and white; a lovely complete set, the staples rusted, some light browning and spotting to the extremities, original subscribers form present in 3 of the 8 volumes, some splash marks to vol. III; light corner creasing present in some volumes; vol VI with some slightly more present spotting and ink marks to rear cover; the final volume the most spotted, with some soiling and creasing to covers, but a very good set nonetheless, and genuinely scarce complete.First editions all, of this English magazine from the second wave of Ango-American modernism, founded in Cambridge by Moore and Goodland, fortified by its connection with the Villa Seurat group: Henry Millar, Lawrence Durrell and Anais Nin all feature consistently throughout the run, whilst the 5th issue (misnumbered 4, Summer 1939) includes a poem by Gerald Durrell, 'An African Dialogue', which is among his first appearances in print - he was at the time fourteen years of age.