Points Vail Sindbad (1 results)
Published by Points - 1950, 1949
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA
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paper a little toned, some occasional light water-staining to borders (in places with a reddish hue), a couple of leaves with short closed tear to fore-margin, insect damage (not affecting text) to bottom corner of last gathering in first volume, pp. 94; 110; 95; 100; 95, [1, ad]; 95, [1, ad], 4to and 8vo, original yellow wrappe…rs, fourth number with manuscript title to backstrip, all with some soiling (only heavy at foot of backstrips), a little chipped at backstrip ends, first volume with original subscription form laid in, good. The first half-dozen issues of a little magazine in French and English, the respective sections being edited by Marcel Bisiaux and Sindbad Vail he the son of 'King of Bohemia', Laurence Vail, and Peggy Guggenheim. The magazine was intended as an organ for untested authors from both sides of the Channel (and Atlantic). Michael Hamburger, Herbert Gold (here, 'Herb' and the winner of the magazine's short story competition, his entry printed in the fourth number), Christopher Middleton and David Gascoyne all contribute early work, alongside the editors and more established domestic figures such as Philippe Soupault and André Dhôtel. Amongst the other contributors, one finds: the later film director, Elliot Silverstein; Genet's translator into English, Bernard Frechtman; and E.E. Cummings' translator into French, D. Jon Grossman, whose 'Ars Poetica: The Twentieth Century' is a savage and entertaining parody of the work of both Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, going on to Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Cummings, MacLeish, Wallace Stevens et al.
