Author Public Problems Communication: First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition stated. Very good condition. 8vo, Red cloth boards. Problems Of Communication. Chapters on; The author and the public, Criticism, Contemporary techniques in Poetry, The importance of minority literature. etc. 201 pgs.

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.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof of first British edition. Orange printed wrappers. Lightly soiled, spine ends lightly worn, creases on corners, else very good.