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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. This copy inscribed by John Drinkwater on the first leaf: "Jeff from John D 1929". 4to. Paginated 109-152pp. Wrappers. A shade of discolouration to the wrapper margins, and a tiny nick to the fore edge of the rear wrapper. A very good copy. This third of a total of just four issues of the quarterly periodical produced to promote the work of the Dymock poets includes the poems 'Tiare Tahiti', 'Retrospect', 'The Great Lover', 'Waikiki' and 'Hauntings' by Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater's verse-play 'The Storm', W. W. Gibson's poem 'Wheels' and his play 'Hoops', and Abercrombie's poem 'The Innocents'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Mixed Editions. 30 Volumes. Octavo. [The Postcards written from Venice, Florence and Santa Barbarabetween the years 1952 and 1977 / Postcard I: From John Lehmann in Venice to Adrian Liddell Hart: "This city does not boast a supply of the "Sunday Dispatch", and as the writer was gripped and enthralled by the last installment on June 1st, he hopes you will keep copies of the .for him to read on his return in ten Days time - J." / Postcard II: From John Lehmann in Florence to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Am staying with [Sir] Harold Acton here in his marvellous Villa - calme luxe ["Villa La Pietra"], all night.pity, you aren't with me. Off to the sea this afternoon - may post this in Porto Ercole. Your old friend is relaxing. Gracefully - Love J." [Date hard to decipher, possibly in 1962] / 3. Postcard III: From John Lehmann in Santa Barbara in California to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Terribly sorry to hear about the broken leg, may it mend quickly, as surely it must undo the ministrations of Florence .Nightingale. I expect to be in England all March, but then off again - to Jimmy Carter Country - Love J." [20.2.77]. Hardcover and Softcover. Of the series of 28 Volumes of the "New Writing " Series, only three with stronger signs of wear and in poorer condition. All others in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Lehmann's personal copy of Sean O'Faolain's Autobiography with the original dustjacket in poor condition but the Volume itself very good. This set of books belonged to Adrian Liddell Hart, Lover and friend of publisher John Lehman, from whom he received these publications fresh from the press. Included in the collection are for example: "The Penguin New Writing" Volume I - (Second Edition, 1941) with Georg Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" / Morton Freedgood - "Good Nigger" etc. Volume II: - (First Edition, 1941 with a note in pencil by Lehman: "Publication Jan. 10") with Rosamond Lehmann - A Dream of Winter / Stephen Spender - Books and the War I / Louis MacNeice - June Thunder / B.L.Coombes - The Way we live now I / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz etc. Volume III: - (First Edition, 1941) with W.H.Auden - Lay your sleeping Head / Willy Goldman - The Way we live now II / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz - II / Rosamond Lehmann - When the Winters came / Jean Giono - The Corn Dies / Volume IV: - (First Edition, 1941) with Louis MacNeice - March gave clear Days / C.Day Lewis - Ode in Fear / Margot Heinemann - Grieve in a New Way etc. Volume V: - (First Edition, 1941) with W.H.Auden - Exiles / F.G.Lorca - The Dawn / Louis MacNeice - The Way we live now IV etc. Volume VI: - (First Edition, 1941) with John Lehmann - Seven Poems of Vienna / Bert Brecht - The Informer / Dylan Thomas - A Visit to Grandpa's / etc. Volume VII: - (First Edition, 1941) with Jean Paul Sartre - The Wall / F.G.Lorca - Song / W.H.Auden - The Leaves of Life / Rosamond Lehmann - For Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume VIII: - (First Edition, 1941) with Laurie Lee - The Armoured Valley / Dylan Thomas - The Peaches / Georg Anders - Song of the Austrians / Ahmed Ali - Morning in Delhi / Beatrix Lehmann - The £2000 Rasperry etc. Volume IX: - (First Edition, 1941) with Graham Greene - Men at Work / Robert Pagan - The Night before the War / F.G.Lorca - Song of the Andalusian Sailors / Charles Brasch - In These Islands / Inez Holden - The Flat above me / Yuri Olesha - Love etc. Volume X: - (First Edition, 1941) with Laurie Lee - Poem / Jean Howard - The Night of the Landslide / Ignazio Silone - The Journey to Paris / Rex Warner - Two Sonnets / Roderick Finlayson - The Totara Tree / W.H.Auden - The Novelist etc. Volume XI: - (First Edition, 1941) with Anna Seghers - The Rescue / Dylan Thomas - Extraordinary Little Cough / F.G.Lorca - The Clear Death / Isobel Leslie - Fine Spring Weather / Volume XIII: - (First Edition, 1942) with Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Diary II / John Lehmann - Vigils / Frank Sargeson - Making of a New Zealander / Paul Nizan - About Theseus / Elsa Triolet - "Mayakovsky - Poet of Russia" / With Drawings by Keith Vaughan / Volume XIV: - (First Edition, 1942) with Julia Strachey - Fragment from a Diary / Christopher Isherwood - The Day at La Verne / W.H.Auden - Two Poems / Walter Allen - Reflections on Aldous Huxley / With Photogravure Illustrations From the Film "The Foreman went to France" / Volume XVIII: - (First Edition, 1943) with John Lehmann - The Heart of the Problem / Walter Allen - The Novels of Graham Greene / George Barker - Elegy on the Eve / Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Jiri Mucha - Manoeuvres / etc. Volume XIX: - (First Edition, 1944) with Edith Sitwell - One Day in Spring / Donagh MacDonagh - My Grandfather was Irish / W.H.Auden - Victor / John Lehmann - Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume XX: - (First Edition, 1944) with Demetrios Capetanakis - The Isles of Greece / Elizabeth Bowen - Mysterious Kor / George Barker - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - Girl and Butterfly / John Lehmann - Three Poems / H.B.Mallalieu - Two Poems / William Plomer - Introduction to E.M.Forster etc. Volume XXIII: - (First Edition, 1945) with Denis Glover - It was D-Day / John Heath-Stubbs- The Defeat of Romanticism / Laurie Lee - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - A Song of the Cold etc. Volume XXIV: - (First Edition, 1945) with Frank O'Connor - A Story by Maupassant / Peter Viertel - Smudge / John Lehmann - State Art and Scepticism / etc. Volume XXV: - (First Edition, 1945) with Anthony Thorne - Potatoes Have Hips of Their Own / Rupert Doone - Three Shakespearean Productions / John Heath-Stubbs - Georg Crabbe and the Eighteenth Century / etc. Volume XXVI: - (First Edition, 1945) with John Lehmann - Two Poems / Alec Guinness - Money for Jam / etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (2 June 1907 7 April 1987) was an English publisher, poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals "New Writing" and "The London Magazine", and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Born in Bourne.

First Edition. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION, association copy. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.123. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Name 'Elizabeth Wakefield' in pencil within 'This Book Belongs to' box. The Wakefields were family friends of the author; we have sold copies inscribed to them, and seen hand-written correspondence from Bestall. Lightly handled small bumps at extremities, competition at rear completed in colour pencil. Disclaimer) This book is a product of its time and contains racist imagery throughout. Alfred Besthall befriended the Wakefields and visited them at their home in Bexhill, Sussex. Both Elizabeth and her mother suggested ideas for Rupert stories, which were developed into adventures appearing in the 1956 annual. Signed.

First Edition. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author to a family friend. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.120. Publisher's illustrated card covers, priced at 4' to p.1. Pictorial endpapers, stories illustrated in colour throughout. Name 'Elizabeth Wakefield' within 'This Book Belongs to' box. INSCRIBED 'Elizabeth with Love, A.E. Bestall' to facing page. Contents clean, binding worn with chips to spine ends, some splits to joints. Remains presentable. Alfred Besthall befriended the Wakefields and visited them at their home in Bexhill, Sussex. Both Elizabeth and her mother suggested ideas for Rupert stories, which were developed into adventures appearing in the 1956 annual. Signed.

First Edition. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author to a family friend. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.124. Publisher's illustrated card covers, priced at 4/9 to p.1. Pictorial endpapers, stories illustrated in colour throughout. Name 'Elizabeth Wakefield' in pencil within 'This Book Belongs to' box. INSCRIBED 'For Elizabeth, cheerio! A.E. B.' [Alfred E. Bestall] to facing page. Contents clean, covers lightly handled only. Alfred Besthall befriended the Wakefields and visited them at their home in Bexhill, Sussex. Both Elizabeth and her mother suggested ideas for Rupert stories, which were developed into adventures appearing in the 1956 annual. Signed.