Urbana, Illinois: ACCENT, 1940-1945. Original wraps. 4 early isues of Accent, 3 from 1943, 1 from 1945. Impressive literary quarterly from the 1940s and '50s, issued out of Urbana, Illinois. These 4 issues, all solid and VG in their stapled wrappers, show very light wear, except for Summer 1943, which..... More
Urbana, Illinois: The English Department, University of Illinois, 1940. Original wraps. The August 1940 very first issue of Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature. Solid and VG- to VG in its beige wrappers, with mild staining to the front panel and light creasing at the rear panel's lower-tip. Contributors include..... More
New Haven: Silliman College (Yale University), 1941. Illustrated Wraps. The Summer 1941 issue, the 4th issue. Solid and VG in its illustrated wrappers, with light soiling along the panels. Contributions from W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, E.E. Cummings amd Lawrence Durrell, among others. More
New York: 1924-1926. Magazines. 4 separate issues of The Little Review, bound together into one hardback, with red cloth over dark-blue boards. The 4 magazines, all lackig their original wrappers, are nonetheles clean and bright, with all illustrations and reproductions crisp and unmarred. The boards themselves show very light soiling..... More
New York: Partisan Review, 1940. Original wraps. A very presentable copy of the May-June 1940 issue (Vol. VII, No. 3). Solid and VG+ in its gray printed wrappers, with just a touch of light spotting at the panels. Contributions, including a "long poem" by T.S. Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, Philip..... More
New York: Partisan Review, 1942. Original wraps. A solid, sharp copy of the Jan-Feb 1942 issue of Partisan Review, Vol. IX, No. 1. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its light-green wrappers. Contributors to this issue include Wallace Stevens, Dwight MacDonald, Stephen Spender, Marianne Moore, among others. More
New York: Partian Review, 1939. Original wraps. A very solid copy of the Spring 1939 issue, Vol. VI, No. 3. Crisp and VG+ to Near Fine in its beige wrappers, with mild darkening along the spine. Contributors to this issue include William Carlos Williams, Louis macNeice, Wallace Stevens, Delmore Schwartz..... More
New York: Twice a Year, 1938-39. Original wraps. The first two issues, from Fall-Winter 1938 AND Spring-Summer 1939, of this influential pre-War literary anthology. Including in these 2 issues writings of Rilke, Theodore Dreiser, Thoreau, Alfred Stieglitz, E.E. Cummings, Anais Nin, Franz Kafka, Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Proust, Walter..... More
London: Townsman, 1938. Spiral bound wraps. Very sharp copies of the first 2 issues of this impressive literary quarterly, issued out of pre-War London, in 1938. Together the 2 issues include contributions by Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, William Saroyan, etc. Both issues clean and easily VG+ to Near Fine in..... More
Monte Carlo: Ethel Moorhead, 1927. Magazines. A solid copy of the 1927 "Ernest Walsh" issue, re-bound in wine-red cloth over marbled boards, with the magazine itself --including its front cover-- bound inside. The magazine is clean and sharp, with some (inevitable) browning to the paper. The boards show light fading..... More
