Stephen Spender Contributors (24 results)

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. Includes the first publication of Pound's "Canto LXXXIII" and two articles about his writing by Harold H. Watts and Lawrence Richardson. Also contains "The Almond Tree in a Burned City" by Stephen Spender, and poems by Grover Smith, Pauline Hanson and others. Book reviews, ads. 36 pp. Errata slip laid in. Very good in pale green stapled wrappers (some toning to the pages and covers, lower corner bumped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in red cloth-covered boards. This copy is inscribed for Max Richter by one of the editors, Stefan Schimanski, and signed "S.S.". Signed by Editor.

First appearance in print of these works. The entire issue is devoted to a discussion of Read's works, recollections of him, poetry written for him - included are letters between Edward Dahlberg, a tribute and 4 drawings from Henry Moore, a checklist of the Read archive at the University of Victoria, and more. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good contents in somewhat worn and stained covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Nice copy.

Wrappers. Condition: Good. A Review of Free Culture. 128 pp., illus. With Index. Osborne, "What Chance Has a Negro Nazi Movement in the Americas?"; Gide, "1914" (diary excerpt): Sartre, "Herostratus"; A French Anthology, "France Forever"; poems by Spender and McCullers; etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with a small snag on the front cover and general wear.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Simon Bussy and George Richmond [Painting & Drawing] (illustrator). First Edition. 1946 Vol. XIII, No. 77 - May MCMXLVI. With monochrome reproductions of a painting by Simon Bussy and a drawing by George Richmond. ***Very good in blue printed cream wrappers. Covers somewhat discoloured with age and handling. Fragile spine worn with some slight loss, and split along the lower front edge, but largely intact. Pages slightly creased at the top corner. Printed on paper that is noticeably thinner than the pre-war and later post-war issues, due to post-war economy paper rationing. Contents very good. 215mm x 140mm. 70 pages [pp.290-360], including three pages of period adverts. ***An early post-war issue of this literary journal, published by Cyril Connolly as editor, and Stephen Spender as associate editor. This issue includes the following contributions: 'Novelist-Philosophers IX - R. L. Stevenson and G. D. Brown: The Myth of Lord Braxfield' by J. D. Scott, 'Some Recollections of Paul Valery' by Dorothy Bussy, 'A Letter About Architecture' by E. Maxwell Fry, with illustrations, 'Samuel Palmer's Friends' by Geoffrey Grigson, 'Design and Function in Typography' by Holbrook Jackson, 'Portrait of a Town' by Bernard Gutteridge, Poems by Olivier Larronde and Reviews by Julia Strachey. ***'Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published every four weeks in London, between December 1939 and January 1950. The magazine was edited by Cyril Connolly, who made it into a platform for a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers. It had a print run of 120 issues. The magazine had a small circulation of around 9,500, but an impressive list of contributors, and it made a significant impact on the arts during and just after the war.' [Wiki] ***An early post-war issue of this magazine in nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Lucian Freud and John Craxton [Paintings] (illustrator). First Edition. 1947 Vol. XVI, No. 95 - November MCMXLVII. With monochrome reproductions of paintings by Lucian Freud and John Craxton. ***Very good in brown printed cream wrappers. Covers somewhat discoloured with age and handling, with a couple of small stains on the front cover. Fragile spine intact. Contents very good. 215mm x 140mm. 70 pages [pp.227-297], plus four pages of period adverts. ***A post-war issue of this literary journal, published by Cyril Connolly as editor, and Stephen Spender as associate editor. This issue includes the following contributions: 'After the Atom' by Franz Borkenau, 'The Fate of Modern Painting' by Herbert Read, 'Mother's Sense of Fun' by Angus Wilson, 'Studies in Genius - III: Swinburne and 'Le Vice Anglais'' by Humphrey Hare and 'Stravinsky - Latter-day Symphonist' by Eric Walter White. ***'Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published every four weeks in London, between December 1939 and January 1950. The magazine was edited by Cyril Connolly, who made it into a platform for a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers. It had a print run of 120 issues. The magazine had a small circulation of around 9,500, but an impressive list of contributors, and it made a significant impact on the arts during and just after the war.' [Wiki] ***A post-war issue of this magazine in nice condition. Includes first publication of 'Mother's Sense of Fun', a short story by Angus Wilson, two years before the publication of his first collection of short stories 'The Wrong Set', which was published by Secker & Warburg in 1949. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Paul Delvaux [Paintings] (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. XIII, No. 73 - January MCMXLVI. With monochrome reproductions of paintings by Paul Delvaux. ***Near fine in black printed blue wrappers. Covers just slightly browned, mainly along the spine. Fragile spine is completely intact. Pages uncreased. Printed on paper that is noticeably thinner than the pre-war and later post-war issues, due to post-war economy paper rationing. Contents near fine. 215mm x 140mm. 72 pages, including two pages of period adverts. ***An early post-war issue of this literary journal, published by Cyril Connolly as editor, and Stephen Spender as associate editor. This issue includes the following contributions: 'Novelist-Philosophers VII - Choderlos De Laclos and 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'' by Martin Turnell, 'Paul Delvaux' by Camille Goemans, 'War and Peace II' by William Sansom, 'Fragment of an Autobiography - XV' by Augustus John, Poems by Pierre Emmanuel and Pierre Jean Jouve, Reviews by Anna Kavan and Sonia Brownell. ***'Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published every four weeks in London, between December 1939 and January 1950. The magazine was edited by Cyril Connolly, who made it into a platform for a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers. It had a print run of 120 issues. The magazine had a small circulation of around 9,500, but an impressive list of contributors, and it made a significant impact on the arts during and just after the war.' [Wiki] ***An early post-war issue of this magazine in near fine condition. Includes book reviews by novelists Anna Kavan and Sonia Brownell, the future wife of George Orwell. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Impression. 1957 First Edition, first impression. Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin's Review Copy. Size octavo, 201 pages. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition near fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition very good, edges slightly rubbed, spine and outer panel edges sunned, not price clipped. The report of the 28th International P.E.N Congress held in 1956 in London. Containing essays by J. B. Priestly, Angus Wilson, William Empson, V. S. Pritchett, Andre Maurois, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender, et al. This was the Review Copy of Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973). Loosely inserted is a typed carbon copy of Malcolm Elwin's Review of the book, 7 pages. Tipped onto the front end-paper is the original compliments slip from Angela Pain of Hansom Books Ltd on which she has asked Malcolm to produce a review of around 1200 words by April 8th, and also the compliments slip from Messrs. Hutchinson and Co Publisher's Ltd enclosing the book and asking Malcolm Elwin for a review of the book and requesting that no notice of the review should appear prior to the publication date of 25 Mar 1957.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Keith Vaughan (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 175. Illustrated with two leaves of black & white photo reproductions. Red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Spine titles a bit rubbed. Discreet bookplate on the front pastedown. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, flap price 10s. 6d. intact, showing slight edge-wear. Fourth installment of Lehmann's hard-back periodical, a well-curated miscellany of British, Dominion and foreign writing. Includes work by Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Jirí Mucha, et. al. Produced under wartime economic restrictions, the inferior paper has darkened but the text remains bright. The dust jacket has a superb Blake-ian illustration by Keith Vaughan. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Almost AS NEW. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo. in illustrated thick boards, 90pp on thick art paper, b/w illustrations in text, etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked copy (merest hint of tanning to leaves). An excellent copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 91pp printed for the Stourton Press by The Stellar Press in a limited edition of 900 copies. Pictorial brown and grey cloth with brown lettering on spine. Numerous contributors, including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Henry Moore, Myfanwy Piper, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and Rigby Graham. Black and white photograph of John Piper by Lord Snowdon. Contains b/w reproductions of Piper's work. Tiny dirt spot to top page edge - otherwise in fine condition. Laid in is a hand-written invoice from the publisher to Alan & Joan Tucker, booksellers of Stroud, Gloucestershire, from whose collection this book originates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'a Festival of Poetry with Music' ~ contributors incl Pablo Neruda, Stephen Spender et al; pub by The London Poetry Consortium 1972; c8" x 8", green coloured paper covers, 30pps incl b&w photos; vg condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 91pp printed for the Stourton Press by The Stellar Press in a limited edition of 900 copies. Pictorial brown and grey cloth with brown lettering on spine. Numerous contributors, including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Henry Moore, Myfanwy Piper, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and Rigby Graham. Black and white photograph of John Piper by Lord Snowdon. Contains b/w reproductions of Piper's work. Top and tail of spine slightly bumped. Otherwise in fine condition. Laid in is a hand-written letter from James Stourton to Lord Sherfield which accompanied this book.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, particularly on the front cover. Top corners of pages quite creased, and bottom corners of pages slightly creased. Interior pages clean - just a pencil annotation to p.153 - could be rubbed out if so wished (please see scans). Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Alexander Calder (Lyre Bird cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 - the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. After a hiatus of around five years since the publication of the final issue of the original series, in 1951, Tambimuttu relaunched the magazine in New York in 1956. However, this version of the magazine only ran to four issues before cessation again in 1960. With the Lyre Bird cover design by Alexander Calder. ***Very good in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Please note that the bottom of the spine has been bumped and this affects all pages (please see scans). Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no tears. Internally also very good with very clean pages. None of the usual foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***40 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: Poems by Walter de la Mare, Roy Campbell, Marya Zaturenska, W. S. Merwyn, Herbert Read, W. H. Auden, Anne Ridler, Jean Garrigue, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Nelson Bentley, Robert Graves, Claire McAllister, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Logue, Tom Scott, Arthur Gregor, Alice Monks Mears, Kenneth Eisold, Babette Deutsch, Diana Menuhin, Amrita Pritam, Buddhadiva Bose, Jibanananda Das. ***Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 of Poetry London - New York, the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers hardly rubbed or creased at all. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Virtually no creasing and no tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue and exceptionally rare in this near fine condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, with very light sporadic foxing to the fore-edge of the front cover. Interior pages clean. Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition, and this is a very clean largely uncreased copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. With a two-page preface by Graham Greene, and contributions by Anthony Powell, W.H.Auden, H.E.Bates, Stephen Spender, Elizabeth Bowen, Walter Greenwood, L.P.Hartley, William Plomer, Derek Verschoyle, Antonia White, and Greene himself (a ten-page essay, 'The Last Word', about his Berkhamsted schooling). ***A very good copy in black cloth-covered boards with blue titles to the spine. The boards are quite clean with just some light marks commensurate with age and handling. Some fraying to the cloth at the top of the spine. No other tears or creasing. No bumps. Corners slightly rubbed and softened. There is a slight forward reading lean to the binding. No reading creases to the spine. Page block edges clean without any foxing. Internally the book is also very good, with no ownership inscriptions, but with an attractive decorative period - 'Great School Library' - bookplate to the front pastedown. There is slight browning to the front pastedown, but the interior pages are nice and clean, without any foxing. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***205mm x 145mm. 256 pages. ***'I regard this book rather as a premature memorial, like a family photograph album, a gathering of the staid and unloved hovering, in the most absurd headgear, unconsciously "upon the brink" and occasionally among them, in a deerstalker cap or hobble skirt, somebody who has betrayed one's natural distrust of human nature, somebody one has loved and will miss. Like the family album, this book will, I hope, be superficially more funny than tragic, for so odd a system of education does not demand a pompous memorial.' (Quote taken from the Editor's Preface) ***First impression of the true first edition of this pre-war Graham Greene. The first book edited by Greene, of which 1,517 copies were printed (Wobbe A7) and uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Hector Whistler (Cover design), Edwin Smith (illustrations) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 2 - April 1939 - the second issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Illustrated within the text by Edwin Smith. Cover design by Hector Whistler. ***Near fine in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no significant creases or tears. Internally also near fine without marks or creasing. No inscriptions. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***32 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: George Barker: The Death of Yeats; Tambimuttu: Second Letter; Idris Davies: Love Poem; H. B. Mallalieu: The Photograph; Laurence Whistler: October Call; Clifford Dyment: The Eyes, A Daughter of Music, Summer, Movements in Spring; Paul Potts: Michael Gold to Thornton Wilder, Twentieth Century God; Inside; Louis MacNeice [translated by]: First Chorus from the Hippolytus of Eurpides; Maurice Carpenter: Sleep Turning; Tambimuttu: Four Ceylonese Love Songs; David Gascoyne: The Last Hour, De Profundus, Lachrymae, Ex Nihilo; Charles Madge: Flight of the Margarine; George Barker: Elegy No. 3; Ruthven Todd: Christopher Wood; Stephen Spender: The Human Situation; Glyn Jones: Night; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Dorian Cooke: Gethsemane Poem; Reviews; Correspondence - includes congratulatory letters from Dylan Thomas and Lawrence Durrell etc.; Books Received; Poetry London Twice a Year adverts to the inside of rear cover. ***Poetry (London) was called simply "Poetry" when the magazine initially came out. ***Vol. 1. No. 2 - the second issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in April 1939, in nice collectable condition. This pre-war second issue of Poetry (London) magazine is scarce - all the Poetry (London) magazines are very fragile productions, and seldom found now in such clean condition. A magazine now over 80 years old. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Rare variant with 'The Gotham Book Mart, 51 West 47th Street, N.Y.C.' on the bottom of the front cover, indicating the American distributor of the magazine (please see scans). ***Near fine in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are exceptionally clean. Staples rusted as usual. Internally also near fine - pages clean without any of the usual foxing. No tears. Lower corners just very slightly creased. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red and grey cloth boards illustrated by Piper stamped in red. 8vo. 10'' x 6¼''. One of an edition of 900 copies. Contains 91pp printed pages of text with portrait photograph to John Piper and monochrome illustrations throughout. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0903912090 ART [British].

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers slightly creased and rubbed, with a surface crease across the top corner and a smaller surface crease across the bottom corner of the front cover, and a slight bump to the tail of the spine. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.