Roughton Roger (25 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Pp. [141]-176; 8vo, stapled wrapper. This issue includes a short story by Allott, Scarfe, and Gascoyne and a poem by Eluard. Near fine copy (hinge side slightly toned).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. (6 pages), near fine condition in sewn paper covers, front cover slightly creased, number 16 of an edition of 100 copies, with signed presentation inscription from Eric Stevens on the inside of the front cover.

Sewn Wraps / Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (12pp.) No.5/100 copies. Very lightly creased at head of spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 100 numbered copies. 8vo. Stitched wrappers. Unpaginated (12pp.). Poems which appeared in the issues of June and July 1936 and Spring 1937 of the periodical 'Contemporary Poetry & Prose', which Roughton edited and financed when aged just 19. Spotted to the edges (primarily the head edge) and a little to the central inner margin, and with some slight bumping, the wrappers with minor, inherent creasing, but towards Very Good overall, in like jacket, moderately rubbed to the head edge and with areas of fading.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xii, 204 pp., 8vo, tan wrapper with yapp edges, textblock edges untrimmed. A literary quarterly edited by T. S. Eliot during its entire run from October 1922 until it ceased publication in January 1939 ("Perhaps one of the most influential critical reviews of its day," Miller-Price 45). Includes poetry by Laurence Binyon and essays by E. Sackville West and Henry Miller; and correspondence from Ezra Pound. Also with book reviews by William Empson, Herbert Read, David Gascoyne, Ruthven Todd, and others. Good copy overall; wrapper a bit dust-soiled, its edges a bit age-toned and worn with a few short closed tears, as usual, textblock edges show some foxing spots (contents otherwise fine).…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 48 [1] pp. Stapled paper wraps printed in black and blue, with cover art by Henry Moore, rear panel has bold blue text that reads "ARMS FOR SPAIN." Wraps soiled, spine darkened and rubbed. Small (< 1 cm) chip to rear panel at bottom edge. Upper fore corner bumped, creating slight dent to corner of text block. Interior lightly toned. Text printed on pale green paper, leaves have some faint discoloration at edges. Collection of mostly poetry and folk ballads, with few short works of prose in translation. Includes a poem by the editor. …

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Discoloration along wrapper edges, 1in. split at top of spine. Contributions from St. J. Perse, Dylan Thomas, Francis Scarfe, Efim Zozulya, Roger Roughton, Arthur Rimbaud, Humphrey Jennings, George Barker, Jack Lindsay, & R. B. Fuller.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 22 pp. Soiling to front and rear wrapper, heaviest along spine. Interior clean. Contributions from E. E. Cummings, Kenneth Allott. Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Gavin Ewart, Ruthven Todd, Benjamin Peret, Kerker Quin, Roger Roughton and Isaac Babel.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 15 pp. Discoloration and chipping to wrapper edges w/ 9 cm closed tear at rear. Interior clean. Contents include two early works from Dylan Thomas, as well as, contributions from Gavin Ewart, E. E. Cummings, David Gascoyne, William Empson, & Roger Roughton.…

May. 15 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Empson, Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Gacoyne, Gavin Ewart, and Roughton contribute.

Spring. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Henry Moore. Lautréamont, Dylan Thomas, Jarry, Rimbaud, George Barker, and many more.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Spine faded. Slight spotting to the page edges. Fading around the edges of the front and rear covers. Spotting to the first few pages. Includes 'Ballad of the Long-legged Fly' by Thomas, 'June 23rd' by Mass-Observation, 'War Symposium: (iv) The Wall' by Sanson; 'The Artistic Vision of Proust' by Ironside; 'J.M.Barrie' by Kingsmill; 'The Human House' by Roughton; 'The Theory of Justice' by Andrassy. Reproductions ofa drawing by Prieto, a painting by Monet and a sculpture by Hepworth. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Lancaster, Osbert; Fuseli, Henry (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 47, [1] pp., 8vo, stapled card wrapper. Very good copy overall; contents fine, wrapper dust and finger-soiled.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pp. [ii], 107-118, [2], 8vo, stapled card wrapper. A short-lived little magazine that ran for only ten numbers (May 1936-Autumn 1937). "Published from the Arts Café, No. 1 Parton St, London, this was one of the magazines responsible for widening the knowledge of surrealist literature in Britain in the 1930s" (Miller & Price A41). Very good copy, with mild age-toning at the wrapper edges and a short light corner crease.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp [6]. Wraps/booklet. Original publisher's mustard yellow covers, lettered black. . One of the leading figures of the English Surrealist Movement. He committed suicide in April 1941, aged 24. Limited to 100 numbered copies, this being number seventy three. About fine.…

12 pages. Soft covers, 23x16. Near fine copy in like dust wrapper. One of the leading fugures of the English Surrealist Movement. He committed suicide in April 1941, aged 24. Limited to 100 numbered copies, this being number 18.

August-September. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. As if six Picasso poems were not enough, work also by Dali, Breton, Cummings, Péret, Dylan Thomas, and others.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated. 12 pp. [2] October 1936. Contents include selections from Lautreamont's Chants de Maldoror by Isadore Ducasse. Light discoloration to wraps. Interior clean, binding sturdy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 16pp.-50pp. + a few subscription forms tipped in. A rare complete set of 'one of the magazines responsible for widening the knowledge of surrealist literature in Britain in the 1930s' (Miller and Price). Issue 2 is a special Surrealist number, double issue 4/5 includes six poems by Pablo Picasso plus Salvador Dali on Picasso, issue 6 contains selections from 'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont, and loosely inserted in issue 7 is the very scarce 'Declaration on Spain' issued by the Surrealist Group in England. Other contributors include Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Jarry, Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Saint-John Perse, Tristan Tzara, Rene Char, Benjamin Peret, Georges Hugnet, E. L. T. Mesens, Henry Moore (cover of issues 9 and 10), Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Horace Gregory, William Empson, Ruthven Todd, George Barker, Hugh Sykes Davies, Valentine Penrose, Kenneth Allott, Gavin Ewart, Francis Scarfe, Isaac Babel, and Roughton. Staples rusty, the wrappers rubbed and spotted/marked in places, a couple with pencilled prices to the front, those of issue 1 with an unobtrusive chip to the fore edge and splitting at the spine (but secure), issue 9 also split at the base of the spine, the contents generally clean however. Issue 2 has the ownership inscription of Nicholas Moore (as does issue 1, though it is faded or perhaps erased), and the set is held in a cloth-backed box.…

Condition: VG. 1936. One complete issue of this literary jounal, August-Septembert 1936. Issue contains 6 poems by Picasso, one by Dylan Thomas and a long poem on the Art of Picasso by Salvador Dali. Octavo, pp. 73-104, original wraps. VG, slight foxing on cover; text clean. No ownership marks.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. The 10 issues complete in 9 (Nos. 4 & 5 the Picasso Poems Number) All published. From May 1936 to Autumn 1937. Original printed wraps. The original wire staples have been removed and replaced by thread. Light rust staining at the staple locations. The odd mark and stain. Probably as good a set as one might encounter.…

pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Includes the loose insert 'Declaration on Spain' Lorca, Alberti, V Penrose, R B Fuller and Ezra Pound.

pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Some colouration by staples.

Condition: Excelente. Boletín Internacional de Surrealismo n. 4 publicado en septiembre de 1936 con motivo de la Exposición Internacional de Surrealismo que tuvo lugar en the New Burlington Galleries de Londres entre el 11 de junio y el 4 de julio de 1936. Texto en inglés y francés firmado por Eileen Agar, André Breton, Edward Burra, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Eluard, Mervyn Evans, David Gascoyne, Charles Howard, Humphrey Jennings, Rupert Lee, Sheila Legge, Len Lye, E.L.T. Mesens, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, Herbert Read, George Reavey, Roger Roughton, Ruthven Todd, Julian Trevelyan. Reproducción de obras de Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, Humphrey Jennings, Paul Nash, Rupert Lee, Dr Pailthorpe, Edward Burra, Mervyn Evans, Eileen Agar. 18 pp. Rústica. 27,5 x 21,5 cm.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside. Measuring approximately 8" x 10¼" on laid paper. Old horizontal fold and tiny bit edge creasing else fine. A five-point manifesto decrying England's "crime of non-intervention" while "German and Italian arms are killing the people of Spain." Point four laments the assassination of Garcia Lorca and lauds Picasso's appointment as director of the Prado. *OCLC* seems to locate six copies.…