Leonard lehmann john (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. 1st American edition; 164 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar. B/W Illus (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 92 pages. Leonard Woolf "Coming to London - II" / Pierre Gascar "The Forest Fire" / Richard Eberhart "Centennial for Whitman" (poem) / Michael swan "A Letter from the Bush" / John Wain "The Reputation of Ezra Pound".

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition. First book publication of memoirs by the named authors on their first coming to London. 12mo, red cloth, 176 pages. A fine, clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 176 pages Illustrated Very Good + condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket Original owner's inscription on front end paper.

dj. First Edition. Cloth and boards, gilt spine. Black and white photo illustrations. A fine, unmarked copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. First American edition. Mixing personal and literary history, Lehmann writes of his friendship and partnership with Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. In 1931 he was hired as a "trainee manager" at the age of 24, left and later returned as a partner and manager. A friend of the Woolf's nephew, Julian Bell, Lehmann was a family as well as a business insider. Essential reading for any admirer of Virginia Woolf and/or the Hogarth Press.…

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).…