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4to. 11.5 x 8.75 inches. [1] + xiii-xxiv, including advertisements + xii, including advertisements + 104 pp. + [1] pp. publisher's series details. Bound in original beige cloth with black titles, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge chips and tears, including top edge. Extremities a little worn, but otherwise a very good copy with clean interior. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Map endpapers. The contents review current affairs, culture, society and the arts. Contributors to this issue include Tom Harrison, Reinhold Niebuhr, Alastair Cooke, Nigel Nicolson, Peter Quennell, Paul Rotha and Ernest Gombrich. Contact Books was published in eleven issue, 1945-51 and was founded by the emigre journalist, George Weidenfeld, who subsequently branched out into mainstream publishing with his Weidenfeld and Nicolson company. It was essentially a magazine, but as the government had banned the introduction of new magazine titles, it was styled a book (Fine Press Book Association website). Now a scarce title. SOCIAL HISTORY PERIODICALS PERIODICALS SOCIAL HISTORY ARTS- 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED SOCIAL HISTORY.