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Jakarta.: P.T. Interpress.. Th. VI, No. 5, May1968- Th. VI, No. 6, June 1968.. Black and white line and photographic illustrations, 31pp, original wrappers, extremities worn, marginal browning leaves. From the library of Professor C. Skinner. Two issues of a monthly literary journal in Bahasa Indonesia. Contents include short stories, poems, dramatic scripts, literary criticism, and articles such as Masalah Penamaan Dan Penetapan Sesuatu Angkatan Sastra - Jemmy Helmy. .
THE YELLOW BOOK. by LITERARY PERIODICAL - 1895
by LITERARY PERIODICAL
THE YELLOW BOOK.
by LITERARY PERIODICAL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
An Illustrated Quarterly. Volume IV January, 1895. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Vigo Street; Boston: Copeland & Day; Agents for the Colonies: Robt. A Thompson & Co. Double Pott 8vo; vignette title-page, sixteen inserted plates, and one double-spread supplemental plate (by Beardsley), with tissue guards, all included in the pagination; integral blank leaf follows supplemental plate, followed by 16pp. ‘Yellow Book Advertisements’ (continuing the signatures), and 16pp. publisher’s text-paper advertisements dated 1895, at end, the final page and a half being blank; pp.290+[ii]+16; bright yellow buckram, blocked and lettered black on sides and spine; a.e. uncut. Slight fading to cloth of spine; end-papers foxed, and slight foxing to edges and a couple of pages; otherwise a fine copy, partly unopened. The first issue, with the advertiser which was not present in later issues, and the text-paper catalogue, correctly, dated 1895. This is the first of Lane’s 1895 ‘Yellow Book’ catalogues, distinguished from the later one by the last page and a half being blank, and the fact that it omits all authors whose names begin with the letter ‘C’. The principal literary periodical of the ‘90s, including work by Richard Le Gallienne, Henry Harland, Graham R. Tomson, H.B. Marriott Watson, Dolf Wyllarde, Olive Custance, James Ashcroft Noble, Richard Garnett, Victoria Cross [sic], Kenneth Grahame, Norman Hapgood, E. Nesbit, Marion Hepworth Dixon, C.W. Dalmon, Evelyn Sharp, Max Beerbohm, John Davidson; Beardsley, Sickert, Patten Wilson, Charles Conder, Wilson Steer, William Hyde, Will Rothenstein, etc.
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- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- Date Published 1895