The Tramp: An Open Air Magazine. [Complete run of 13 issues, bound in 2 vols.]

(Tramp.) GOLDRING (Douglas, Editor)

Published by Adelphi Press - 1911, 1910

About this Item

various illustrations, including occasional maps and photographs, some light spotting, pp. 584; 584, royal 8vo, contemporary binding of pebbled black cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, a little worn at corners and to joints of second volume, sprinkled edges, endpapers a little browned and spotted, the first volume with a sliver of waterstaining at bottom corner of flyleaf, good. Scarce. Douglas Goldring's short-lived pre-war periodical provided an odd mix of the rabble-rousing with the ramble-espousing - in a way that perhaps adumbrates forthcoming turbulence to the bucolic way of life. Nominally devoted to the pleasure of the outdoors - it billed itself as an 'Open Air Magazine' and roams around Europe - its legacy resides in the first publication in England of extracts from Marinetti's 'Futurist Manifesto', prefaced by his epistolary diatribe against Venice, for which 'common-sensible' English readers are prepared with the comments 'It is such fun!' and 'Is it not thrilling?', and some early work by Wyndham Lewis, including his first published poem ('Grignolles (Brittany)') and stories subsequently collected, with revisions, in 'The Wild Body' and 'Unlucky for Pringle'. Other contributors, a roll-call that indicates the journal's awkward blend of the old-guard and the avant-garde, include Ford Madox Hueffer (with whom Goldring had cut his editorial teeth at the English Review), Edward Thomas, Arthur Ransome, Arnold Bennett, Algernon Blackwood, Eden Phillpotts, F.S. Flint, et al. (Morrow & Lafourcade D5, D6, D7, D8, D9).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tramp: An Open Air Magazine. [Complete run of 13 issues, bound in 2 vols.]
• Publisher: Adelphi Press - 1911
• Publication Date: 1910
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Edition