CLOSE UP. [Complete run of second volume, II.1 to II.6, bound together.]

numerous plates in each issue showing film stills etc., including the work of the POOL group, pp. 83, [1, ad]; 79; 80; 64; 96; 98, small 4to, bound in full vellum, the wrappers of first number bound in at rear, the backstrip lettered in black, the lettering slightly rubbed, light overall soiling, good. A good sample of this early and influential cinema periodical, calling itself 'the only magazine devoted to films as an art', and here hitting its stride. The contributors included those within the POOL group: the Editors, H.D. (inter alia, in praise of Noel Coward's 'Sirocco'), Robert Herring (in one instance criticising Hitchcock's early film, 'The Ring'), and Oswell Blakeston; from their wider circle come Dorothy Richardson, whose multiple contributions include her 'Continuous Performance' series and an article on 'Cinema in the Slums', Jean Prévost, Marc Allégret, et al. The attention of the periodical is broad, with a particular predilection for Russian and German cinema.