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London: Chapman and Hall, 1922 Folio. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & marked, gutter separation at p.1); pp. [iv], 48 (last blank), with illustrations by various artists including Robert Gibbings, Cecil French and Austin O. Spare, + tipped in erratum slip. A very good copy of the first issue of this influential art and literary magazine. . First Edition. Soft Cover. VG+.

London: Chapman & Hall Limited, 1922. First Edition. Softcover, large folio, binding very good, pages clean, 48 pages, erratum slip for advertisement pg 2 on pg 3. near fine. Austin O. Spare, V. Voigt Alastair, John Austen, Laurence Bradshaw, E. A. Cox, Cecil French, Robert Gibbings, Winifred How, H. Hamp, A. Garth Jones, Morin-Jean, Jean Lebedeff, Stewart Marshall, Haydn Mackey, John Nash, Glyn W. Philpot, Ludovic Rodo,. Published October 1922. table of contents: Wagner Reconsidered: by Louis N. Parker, Port De France: Tunis Poem by Cecil French, A Third Rate Poet: By Ford Madox Hueffer, Cantares Populares: Bu Havelock Ellis, Dragon-Flies: Poem by E. L. Grant Watson, Consummation: Poem by G. M. Hort, The Earl of Oxford as Shakespeare: By J. Thomas Looney, Trinacria: Poem by Clifford Bax, Stripes: By Ethel Mayne, The Past: Poem by Richard Church, Praise: Poem by Peter Renny, Vagabond Death: Poem by Arthur Thrush, Reviews: By H. f. Rubinstein, Clifford Bax, R. O. Morris, E. Powys Mathers, Crossley Davies.

Chapman & Hall, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1, no.1-4, of the literary magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare, bound the publisher's boards. While the boards show a century of wear, they have protected the interior wonderfully, including the original front wrappers of each number and the many lithographs. Bound with no. 4 is the prospectus for Volume 2, announcing the change to a smaller size ('Originally we chose the large page because we wished to give our droughtsmen the best possible conditions. We abandon it now because few people have shelves that are high enough to accommodate folios, and because (according to a well-known authority in the book trade) most people, if a magazine contains large pictures, disregard its literary contents') and offering a defense of the artists and the use of nudes ('It is always the nude that finds people out. Artists often forget that only one person in a thousand can look upon a nude-study as a work of skill and that all the… Read More

[London: July 1924]. 1 volume only (vol. 2, no. 8), tall slim quarto. Original beige cloth-backed boards, titles and designs in beige to black paper-covered board. Numerous monochrome illustrations, including 18 full-page, by Evelyn Waugh, Grace Rogers, Nora Wright, Alfred Warbis, Nora McGuinness, John Austen, and others. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, upper hinge neatly repaired, internally fresh; a very good copy. § First edition, the limited edition being number 30 of 75 copies signed by both Spare and Bax on the front free endpaper. An interesting (and final) volume from a set of eccentric and mildly erotic stories and pictures by well known artists and writers of the day. Single volumes are uncommon and complete sets truly rare.