Folios of New Writing. Autumn 1940
London: The Hogarth Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 160pp. Aquamarine dust jacket, a bit soiled and spine faded. Several closed tears and small chips at extremities, but no text loss. Green cloth stamped in gilt, spine dulled and front cover water spotted.
The writers featured in this volume are: Virginia Woolf, Cecil Day Lewis, George Orwell, B. L. Coombes, V. S. Pritchett, New Zealanders Roderick Finlayson and Charles Brasch, Willy Goldman, Jim Phelan, Laurie Lee, Julia Strachey, Indian writer Ismat Chughtai, Derek Clifford, Peter Viertel, Rex Warner, Isobel Leslie and Stephen Spender
"In the last number of New Writing, the first of the war-time series, I appealed to you to see that our venture... did not suffer from neglect in its new and difficult circumstances... The progress of the war is reflected in the absence of any contributions from the continent of Europe; but instead there are new authors from America, India, and the British Dominions, and it is my hope they will continue to write in these pages... as long as a common destiny binds our countries together." (The Editor). Good- to good condition. Item #50417
Price: $275.00