The Phoenix - Volume One - Number Two - July 1932

Published by Robert William Lowry, for the Literary Club At the University College, Auckland, 1932

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No signatures. Moderate rubbing and some foxing to covers. Small 7mm tear to margin of rear cover. A 20mm tear at head of spine. Staples rusted. The outermost two thirds of the first blank leaf have been cut away. A triangular chip to the lower margin of one leaf (pages 43-44), with loss of a few letters of text on page 44. Quite heavy spots of foxing.; [2 (blank)], 59, [2], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Orange printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 213 x 136mm. An important publication in the history of New Zealand literary culture. "The Phoenix" was a literary magazine with high aesthetic ideals, which only survived for four issues. The typography of the first two issues was done by Bob Lowry and G. M. Bertram. Title page printed in two colours, with a woodcut phoenix illustration in maroon. With linocuts Neil Johnstone (frontispiece), L. D. Morrison (tipped in at page 17), and Cyril Whitmore (page 49). This issue includes the short story "His End was Peace" by R.A.K. Mason. Also containing literary reviews and enthused musings - "The 'Phoenix', we hope, will not become a pale reflex of the 'Adelphi', nor the Literary Club a temple wherein the names of Middleton Murry and D. H. Lawrence are intoned with a holy reverence alike by those who have read them and those who have not." - page 37. "Poetry had a flowering in Auckland in the 1930s when the work of A. R. D. Fairburn, Allen Curnow and R. A. K. Mason among others appeared in the magazine 'Phoenix.'" - from a 1957 newspaper obituary column for A. R. D. Fairburn.…

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Title
The Phoenix - Volume One - Number Two - July 1932
Author
Bertram, J. M. (ed.)
Publisher
Robert William Lowry, for the Literary Club At the University College, Auckland
Publication year
1932
Condition
Good
Dust jacket
No Dust Jacket
Binding
Softcover
Edition
First Edition.

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