New Writing. I Spring 1936 - V Spring 1938 [All published]

Lehmann, John, ed

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head; Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1938

About this Item

First edition. 5 vols. 8vo. Nice set of this important original cosmopolitan anthology series from the middle 1930s, with original contributions by E.M. Forster, William Plomer, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, George Orwell ("Shooting an Elephant" in no. 2); stories by Christopher Isherwood subsequently forming part of his Berlin Stories; Bertolt Brecht, "Concerning the label Emigrant", translated by Stephen Spender; works in translation by Boris Pasternak and Vasili Grossman, and more These first five volumes are the complete first series; a new series began with the Autumn 1938 number, and the title then changed to Folios of New Writing. Original cloth. Very good plus in very good dust jackets (old scuffs and splits, small losses to heads of spine panels on 1, 2, 4). Seller Inventory # 366976

Bibliographic Details

Title: New Writing. I Spring 1936 - V Spring 1938 [...

Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head; Lawrence and Wishart, London

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: 5 vols. 8vo

Edition: First edition.