John lehmann et al (35 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Used-Acceptable. 1st Issued Nov 1952. 351 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy. Pages detached from spine. Creased spine. The second of a series of volumes highlighting writing from around the world. Authors include James Jones, John Lehman, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Osborn Duke, Kimon Friar, James Baldwin, Corrado Alvaro, Samuel Selvon, Shirley Jackson, Selden Rodman, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Lall, Herbert Gold, Everett Ball, Harvey Swados, John Goodwin, W.H. Auden, Leonard Bishop, Jean Genet, Celso Al. Carunungan, Charles A. Fenton, Calder Willingham, H.C. Branner, Alwyn Lee, Richard Eberhart, William Jay Smith, Harvey Breit, Laurence Josephs, Joseph P. Clancy, Peter Viereck, Louis Simpson, Eugenio Montale, Howard Griffin, Rosalie Moore, Theodore Roethke, James Mayhall, Ruth Herschberger, James Merrill, Casimir Wierzynski, Roy Fuller and Sirajuddin Zafar. Ernst Reichl (Design) (illustratore).…

British first edition. 176 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Blue cloth; spine head chipped and frayed with lesser wear at heel; some slender wear and loss at board corners; spine's gilt lettering dulled but legible with front board's gilt stamped lettering still bright. Strong toning to edges with interior text leaves affected likewise but with toning diminishing inward from margins (paper stock utilized by printer affected by "economy standards," i.e. wartime-period rationing regulation). Light toning to endpapers; novelist Nancy Hallinan's name handwritten in green ink at top of front free endpaper recto with additional notation in the same green ink handwriting "from Hal Christmas-1945" at bottom of page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy. Features a collection of essays, commentary, poems, etc.: "In Daylight - I" and "Elegy" by John Lehmann, "The Two Loves" and "Some Notes on 'King Lear'" by Edith Sitwell, "Lament" by George Barker, "Island Dances" by George Seferis, "I Hear You Say So" by Elizabeth Bowen, "Five Poems" by Terence Tiller, "No News From Home" by Cecil Keeling, "The Woman Who Was Loved" by James Stern, "The Poems" by Peter Yates, "Two Poems" by Odysseus Elytis, "The Man Who Killed" by Jiri Weiss, "War" by Andre Chamson, "The Hidden Force" by William Plomer, "The Pre-Raphaelite Literary Painters" by Stephen Spender, "W.H. Auden in America" and "The Place and the Person" by Henry Reed, plus other contributions by Heinrich Fischer, Hero Pesopoulos, Demetrios Capetanakis, Alexander Astruc, J. MacLaren-Ross, C.H. Peacock, J.P. Hodin, and Percy Coates. The eldest daughter of Charles T. "Hal" Hallinan (1880-1971), novelist Nancy Hallinan (1921-2014) authored the critically acclaimed novels "Rough Winds of May" (1955), "A Voice from the Wings" (1965), and "Night Swimmers" (1976) as well as the 1980 O'Henry award winning short story "Women in a Roman Courtyard." Her papers are held by Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.…

Original Wraps. Condizione: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Some contributions were specially written for this issue of Penguin New Writing, and are the first publication in the UK, including Graham Greene's piece on re-visiting an unfinished novel in 'Across the Border'. With colour and photogravure illustrations, including work by Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al. ***A good only reading copy in colour-illustrated thin card covers. The covers show some rubbing and creasing commensurate with age and handling, with a couple of deep creases to the front cover. Spine edges rubbed with some surface loss. No actual loss to the fragile spine covering. Paper stock lightly tanned as usual, with heavier tanning to the page block edges. Internally there is quite a lot of page creasing, and the paper has got wet at some stage, and some of the pages are wrinkled as a result (please see scans). No previous ownership inscriptions and no internal foxing. No tears. ***180mm x120mm. 192 pages. ***Contents: J. Maclaren-Ross: Monsieur Felix; Louis MacNeice: Street-Scene; Tom Hopkinson: Above the Snow-line; Donagh MacDonagh: Three Poems from the Irish; Graham Greene: Across the Border; Henry Reed: Antigone; A.C. Wann: Growing up in Chad Street; Norman Nicholson: Two Poems; Boris Pasternak: The Thrushes; Giles Romilly: Two Poems; John R. Townsend: Poem After Victory; R.C.M. Howard: The Voyage Back; Gillian Hughes: Calm Sea. ***The Critical View: Film Critic: Parade of Violence; V. S. Pritchett: Men of the World; John Lehmann: The Search for the Myth; From a Painter's Note-Book VI. ***The Living Moment: Stuart Hood: The Valley; Rollo Woolley: The Search; Sacha Carnegie: Snow. ***New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism. During the Second World War, in 1940, with New Writing's future uncertain, John Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe which was published by Penguin Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. ***Allen Lane of Penguin Books managed to secure paper for a new series which became Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time produced as a paperback. Penguin New Writing ran to 40 issues in total, surviving until 1950. ***First impression of the true first edition of John Lehmann's Penguin New Writing Issue 30, published in 1947. Of interest to collectors of collectable Penguin paperbacks. ***Please note the above-mentioned faults - a reading copy only. ***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. Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Very good in good dust jacket. There are a few tears on dust jacket (I inch or smaller), dust jacket is slightly browned on back, shelf-rubbing. Other translators are: John Rodker, Phyllis Duveen, Betty Askwith, and Marjorie Mack. Authors are: Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cassou, Andre Chamson, Louis Guilloux, Paul Nizan and more. …

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Octavo. Near fine in wrappers.

Condizione: Good. 1937. First Edition. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with red lettering. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper & rear paste down. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Rose cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners bumped, mild edge wear, covers very clean with sunned top, sunned spine. Binding tight and text very clean, no markings. Fiction. Stax.

Paperback. 124p. + backlist, 4.75x7.25 inches, poetry, fiction, memoir, illustrations, lightly toned else good pocketbook paperback in yellow wraps. Bowles' "By the Water". Sansom's "A Wedding".

Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in April 1946. Some contributions were specially written for this issue of Penguin New Writing, and are the first publication in the UK, including William Sansom and Stephen Spender. With colour and photogravure illustrations - Issues 27-30 have colour illustrations including work by Robert Medley, Michael Ayrton, Laurence Gowing in this issue. ***A very good copy in pale-green colour-illustrated thin card covers. The covers are clean, with just light rubbing and creasing commensurate with age and handling - there is a scuff to the front cover where a sticker has been removed, and some light smudges / finger marks on the back cover (please see scans). The top outer corner of the page block has been slightly bumped, with slight creasing to the page corner tips. Bottom edge of spine slightly rubbed and scuffed, and the spine edges have some rubbing and surface loss, but with no loss to the fragile spine covering. Internally also very good with no previous ownership inscriptions and no internal foxing. Inside covers slightly browned. No creases or tears - other than the aforementioned slight creasing to the top corner tips. Paper stock lightly tanned as usual. ***180mm x120mm. 192 pages. ***Contents: William Sansom: How Claeys Died, Edith Sitwell: Casket Letter No. 2, Annabel Farjeon: The Lady in the Stone, Louis MacNiece (sic): Three Poems, Frank Sargeson: When the Wind Blows - I, C. Day Lewis: Two Songs, J. Maclaren-Ross: Second Lieutenant, Stephen Spender: Meeting, Jim Phelan: Life Line, Eric White: Death, Is it You?, W. F. M. Stewart: Nocturne, John Heath-Stubbs: Sestina, Allen Curnow: Landfall in Unknown Seas, Radio Critic: Education on the Air, Osbert Sitwell: Wilfred Owen, John Hampson: Movements in the Underground - I, Stephen Potter: London Theatre: 1918 and 1945, From a Painter's Notebook - IV, A. C. Ritchie: Indefinite Leave, Bernard Evslin: My Right Leg Was Germany, Norman Swallow: All This is Ended. New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism. During the Second World War, in 1940, with New Writing's future uncertain, John Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe which was published by Penguin Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. ***Allen Lane of Penguin Books managed to secure paper for a new series which became Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time produced as a paperback. Penguin New Writing ran to 40 issues in total, surviving until 1950. ***First impression of the true first edition of John Lehmann's Penguin New Writing Issue 27, published in April 1946. A very good copy, albeit with the above-mentioned faults - of interest to collectors of collectable Penguin paperbacks. ***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. Robert Medley, Michael Ayrton, Laurence Gowing et al (illustratore).…

Hardcover. 224 p.; 21 cm. VG orig. gray cloth in lt. edgeworn magenta on black dj.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Some contributions were specially written for this issue of Penguin New Writing, and are the first publication in the UK, including Louis MacNeice and Lawrence Durrell. With colour and photogravure illustrations - Issues 27-30 have colour illustrations including work by Leonard Rosoman, Robert Buhler, William Scott, Mary Kesse in this issue. ***A near fine copy in brown colour-illustrated thin card covers. The covers are generally clean, with just light rubbing and creasing commensurate with age and handling - a few marks and scuffs to the back cover (please see scans). Top edge of spine slightly rubbed, but spine edges clean with no surface loss to the fragile spine covering. Internally also near fine with no previous ownership inscriptions and no internal foxing. Inside covers slightly browned. No creases or tears. Paper stock lightly tanned as usual. ***180mm x120mm. 186 pages plus five pages of adverts at the back of the book. ***Contents: William Sansom: Murder, Louis MacNeice: Two Poems, Patrick Greer: The Woman and the Dog, Lawrence Durrell: Eternal Contemporaries, Noel Devaulx: The Tailors' Cake, Jack Clemo: A Calvinist in Love, Frank Sargeson: When the Wind Blows - III, Osbert Sitwell: The Invader, John Ward: Ill Wind, Ivan Jelinek: To the Czech Language, Ewart Milne: Deirdre and the Poets, Douglas Newton: Invasion Weather, Bernard Gutteridge: Two Poems. ***The Critical View: J. Mclaren-Ross: A Brief Survey of British Feature Films, Walter Allen: Lawrence in Perspective, William Plomer: In the Year of Jubilee, Helen Gardner: Four Quartets, Lawrence Gowing: French Painters and English. ***The Living Moment: James Stern: A Peaceful Place, Jocelyn Brooke: The Blanket, Stanislaw Balinski: The Migration of the Birds. New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism. During the Second World War, in 1940, with New Writing's future uncertain, John Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe which was published by Penguin Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. ***Allen Lane of Penguin Books managed to secure paper for a new series which became Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time produced as a paperback. Penguin New Writing ran to 40 issues in total, surviving until 1950. ***First impression of the true first edition of John Lehmann's Penguin New Writing Issue 29, published in 1947. A nice clean copy - of interest to collectors of collectable Penguin paperbacks. Unusual to find these fragile volumes in such nice condition. ***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. Leonard Rosoman, Robert Buhler, William Scott, Mary Kessel et al (illustratore).…

Original Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Some contributions were specially written for this issue of Penguin New Writing, and are the first publication in the UK, including Graham Greene's piece on re-visiting an unfinished novel in 'Across the Border'. With colour and photogravure illustrations, including work by Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al. ***A near fine copy in colour-illustrated thin card covers. The covers are very clean, with just light rubbing and creasing commensurate with age and handling. Spine edges just very slightly rubbed with some surface loss. No actual loss to the fragile spine covering. Internally near fine with no previous ownership inscriptions and no internal foxing. No creases or tears. Paper stock lightly tanned as usual. ***180mm x120mm. 192 pages. ***Contents: J. Maclaren-Ross: Monsieur Felix; Louis MacNeice: Street-Scene; Tom Hopkinson: Above the Snow-line; Donagh MacDonagh: Three Poems from the Irish; Graham Greene: Across the Border; Henry Reed: Antigone; A.C. Wann: Growing up in Chad Street; Norman Nicholson: Two Poems; Boris Pasternak: The Thrushes; Giles Romilly: Two Poems; John R. Townsend: Poem After Victory; R.C.M. Howard: The Voyage Back; Gillian Hughes: Calm Sea. ***The Critical View: Film Critic: Parade of Violence; V. S. Pritchett: Men of the World; John Lehmann: The Search for the Myth; From a Painter's Note-Book VI. ***The Living Moment: Stuart Hood: The Valley; Rollo Woolley: The Search; Sacha Carnegie: Snow. ***New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism. During the Second World War, in 1940, with New Writing's future uncertain, John Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe which was published by Penguin Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. ***Allen Lane of Penguin Books managed to secure paper for a new series which became Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time produced as a paperback. Penguin New Writing ran to 40 issues in total, surviving until 1950. ***First impression of the true first edition of John Lehmann's Penguin New Writing Issue 30, published in 1947. A really nice clean copy - of interest to collectors of collectable Penguin paperbacks. Unusual to find these fragile volumes in such nice condition. ***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. Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al (illustratore).…

paperback, 8vo, 78pp, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, cover edges slightly rubbed, Very Good condition.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback. 160p. + 16p. illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps.

Paperback. 124p., very good first edition trade paperback literary journal in printed yellow wraps. Includes the first English appearance of two Denton Welch poems, two Umberto Saba poems, and Paul Bowles' short story, "By the Water".

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Cloth Bound Boards. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1944 first edition. Size octavo, 8.5" tall, 168 pages. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the front cover and spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, covers are grubby with agecorners bumped, spine ends and hinges rubbed, pages are rather toned otherwise clean. Dust jacket condition good, rubbing and chipping to corners and spine ends and slightly to the edges, spine a little sunned, not price clipped. Contributors include Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, John Lehmann, Noel Blackiston, Roy Fuller, Denton Welch, Peter Yates et al.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim 8vo. in near fine condition . Unmarked and without inscription.

Cloth. Condizione: Fair. First edition. 8vo, 174 pp., illus. Covers rubbed, faded and soiled; extremities bumped, page edges tanned, light soiling to page edges and endpapers.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 175. Illustrated with two leaves of black & white photo reproductions. Red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Spine titles a bit rubbed. Discreet bookplate on the front pastedown. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, flap price 10s. 6d. intact, showing slight edge-wear. Fourth installment of Lehmann's hard-back periodical, a well-curated miscellany of British, Dominion and foreign writing. Includes work by Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Jirí Mucha, et. al. Produced under wartime economic restrictions, the inferior paper has darkened but the text remains bright. The dust jacket has a superb Blake-ian illustration by Keith Vaughan. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Keith Vaughan (dust jacket) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Two volume set, one volume text, the other plates.; Complete in 2 vols. Extra shipping charges may apply; Two Volume Set. Bollingen Series LX - 7; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 168. Illustrated with two leaves of black & white photo reproductions. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine: spine titles soiled, edges age-toned; ink marks on front endpaper. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, flap price of 10s. 6d. intact. Dust jacket with edge-wear and chips at head and tail of spine. Fifth installment of Lehmann's hard-back periodical, a well-curated miscellany of British, Dominion and foreign writing. Includes work by Andre Gide, Stephen Spender, Jiri Mucha, Antoine de Saint Exupery, V. S. Pritchett, et al. A piece by Harold Acton, is illustrated with the photo feature, addresses current popular theater in China. Produced under wartime economic restrictions, the inferior paper has darkened but the text remains bright. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Keith Vaughan (dust jacket) (illustratore).…

, 78 pages, advertisements throughout in black and white, SIGNED and DEDICATED on contents page by Anthony Thwaite to his daughter Emily for whom he has written the poem 'For My Unborn Child' First Edition , some light spots to rear cover, internally clean, in good+ condition , yellow card covers with white and black lettering 22 x 14 cm Paperback SIGNED and DEDICATED by Anthony Thwaite ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is chipped to corners and head and tail of spine, rubbed to rear. Very small previous owners name otherwise internally clean. Very good / good condition. Keith Vaughan (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is missing 1" section to top of spine and has a 2" tear to top, right corner. Internally clean, no damage. Very good / good - condition. John Minton Dustjacket (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition, published in March 1944 - an anthology of poems taken from New Writing. With a Foreword by the editor John Lehmann. ***Near fine in scarlet cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still quite bright. The boards are clean, with just a couple of small marks on the back board near the spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Page block edges nice and clean. Internally also near fine, with a neat ownership name to the top corner of the front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. No foxing. No creases or tears. No reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 8s. 6d. net, crossed through in pencil with 3/6 discounted price in pencil. The dustwrapper is largely complete, with just some loss at the top edge of the back panel. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed, with a couple of small closed tears. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Spine lettering slightly faded. The back panel is marked, being all white, but the dustwrapper is otherwise bright. ***189 pages. 205mm x 136mm. ***'The first volume of "New Writing", Mr. Lehmann reminds us in his introduction, was published in the Spring of 1936. Only two out of the twenty contributions in that volume were poetry, but during the ten years which have elapsed since then poetry has played a far greater and more important role, both in the six-monthly volumes published as books and in the more frequent volumes of "The Penguin New Writing" which began in 1941. Nearly all the significant poets of these years appeared in the pages of "New Writing", some of them for the first time and many with poems which are considered among their most memorable. "New Writing" has always been specially interested in those poems which are a mirror of the stormy epoch in which they are written; in translations from modern European poets; and in poems which are not too long for the average weekly or monthly; all these characteristics will be found in the present anthology, which stands also for judgement as a record of one man's taste and the encouragement he endeavoured to give to the making of poetry--to the building of dykes,--during ten years of flood weather.' (Quote taken from the flaps of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition, published to post-war economy standards, with an almost complete very fragile original dustwrapper. Uncommon thus. ***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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition, published in 1938 - the first of three volumes of New Writing published by The Hogarth Press - each volume edited by John Lehmann, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. With eight pages of photographic plates, chosen and arranged with the assistance of Humphrey Spender. ***Very good in pale-yellow cloth-covered boards with dark-blue titles to the spine and front board. The boards show some rubbing and marks commensurate with age and handling, but are generally clean. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Page block edges nice and clean, with the top edge stained green by the publisher, now gently faded. The fore-edge is untrimmed. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally near fine, with no previous ownership inscriptions, but with an attractive bookplate from John Bernard Kilfeather on the front pastedown. No off-setting or foxing to the endpapers, and the interior pages are also clean and unmarked. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good typographical dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 6s. net. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some very slight loss at the top and tail of the spine and corner tips. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed, with a couple of small closed tears. There is a small splash-stain on the front panel, and some overall browning to the dustwrapper. The spine is unfaded. ***240 pages. 224mm x 150mm. ***'It is now three years since "New Writing" was launched, and four or five since a small group of writers began to discuss the outlines of the project among themselves. --- Since the publication of the first number, the trend of events in Europe, and the world, has given "New Writing" an even greater significance for the younger writers, and at the same time the very fact of its existence has encouraged a new kind of writer to come forward. Both these developments have stimulated interest in fresh aspects not only of literature but also of the other arts, and "New Writing" found that further needs were arising which demanded to be met as urgently as the old. It is for this reason that with the present number a New Series has been inaugurated with several additional features to extend its scope: "New Writing" believes that a living publication should grow as life itself grows and changes.' (Quote taken from the editors' Foreword) ***First printing of the true first edition, published in 1938, with a complete original dustwrapper. Uncommon thus. ***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.…

Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. A rarely found complete run of the famous literary periodical PENGUIN NEW WRITING, edited by John Lehmann. Many contributions were specially written for the series, and are the first publication in the UK. Vol. 13 onwards are illustrated, both in photogravure and colour, and 27-30 also have colour illustrations - artists include Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al. ***All the volumes are complete in their original thin card covers. The covers are generally clean, with inevitable rubbing and creasing commensurate with age and handling. The wartime issues in particular are very fragile, but there is no significant damage, although a couple of the early numbers have front cover detached but present, and a few numbers have some bumping and creasing to the page block. Some of the numbers have previous ownership inscriptions, but most do not. Paper stock tanned as usual in the earlier numbers due to the wartime paper stock used - lighter tanning in the later issues with better paper stock. Details of the set below: Vols. 1-5 (1940-41) vg-nf with no inscriptions / Vols. 6-10 (1941) vg, 6 has writing on cover, 8 has slightly damaged cover and name inside, 9 has slightly damaged cover and some top corners creased / Vols. 11-15 (1941-42) vg-nf, 11 has slightly damaged cover / Vols. 16-22 (1943-44) vg-nf except 16 & 17 have front cover detached. Vols. 23-26 (1945) all nf. ***Larger format with illustrated covers (apart from 39 & 40): Vols. 27-30 (1946-47) nf / Vols. 31-35 (1947-48) vg-nf, 31 & 32 bumped at top corner of page block / Vols. 36-40 (1949-50) vg-nf, 36 has owner's stamp, 37 spine slightly torn. ***Early numbers 180mm x 112mm / later numbers 180mm x120mm. Issues vary between 128 - 192 pages. New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism. During the Second World War, in 1940, with New Writing's future uncertain, John Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe which was published by Penguin Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. Allen Lane of Penguin Books managed to secure paper for a new series which became Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time produced as a paperback. Penguin New Writing ran to 40 issues in total, surviving until 1950. ***A very uncommon and rarely found complete run of the famous literary periodical PENGUIN NEW WRITING, edited by John Lehmann - of interest to collectors of period Penguin paperbacks. It is most unusual now to find a complete run of the 40 volumes. The run has a multiplicity of authors and artists from the period. The wartime issues have adverts on the back and inside covers which are particularly evocative of the era (see scans). ***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. Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. A delightful anthology of articles, poems, essays, stories and illustrations by a range of well-known contributors, edited by John Lehmann. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with thirty-six illustrations by a variety of artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Filippo de Pisis, Theophilus, and many others. Collated, complete. The scarce second volume of John Lehmann's two-volume Orpheus set, containing a selection of articles, poems, essays, stories and illustrations by a variety of authors. Contributors include Laurie Lee, George Barker, Edith Sitwell, Rex Warner, Michael Benthall, Lillian Bowes Lyon, Ronald Crichton, and many more. In the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart and bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the end papers. Dust wrapper remains bright, with a little chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Crease to the rear of the wrap. Near Fine. Pierre Bonnard; Henri Matisse; Pablo Picasso; Filippo de Pisis; et al. (illustratore). book.…