SPECIAL FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. Volume XI, Number 5.

New York: September 26, 1968., 1968. Very good. - Folio, 15 inches high by 11-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, unbound signatures laid into printed green self-wraps. Once folded horizontally the edges and center of the covers are faded to tan. A tear along the front edge has been reinforced with clear document tape from the verso. There is chipping to the top edges of the covers and along the spine. 80 pages of newsprint including the wrappers, illustrated by David Levine and Grandville. There are tiny holes to the front border of the last few leaves. Very good. RARE First edition. Among the contents of this issue Igor Stravinsky, in reviewing a book on the Beethoven string quartets, offers his own impressions of them. Elizabeth Hardwick posts a powerful description of Mayor Daley and the notorious Chicago convention. Her article is illustrated with a David Levine caricature. William Styron offers his impressions of the same event in his article "In the Jungle" also illustrated with a Levine caricature. Ronald Steel reports from Prague "Up Against the Wall in Prague". F.W. Dupee writes of "The Uprising at Columbia". H.R. Trevor-Roper writes on "Hitler's Last Minute". Virgil Thomson discusses Pierre Boulez in his article "The Genius Type". Three poems are published in this issue: "Forty Years On" by W.H. Auden, "Those Older" by Robert Lowell and "Barbara" by Robert Mazzocco.…