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Roughton, Roger (Editor). Contemporary Poetry and Prose 4 & 5, Aug.-Sept., 1936. The Farleigh Press, London, 1936.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Beige stapled paper wraps w/ navy and red titling. Light soilings to front and rear wrapper, heaviest along spine. Small notation in ink to verso of rear wrapper. Binding sound. Monthly surrealist magazine featuring Six poems by Pablo Picasso. Additional contributions from Salvador Dali, E. E. Cummings, Andre Breton, Dylan Thomas, B. H. Gutteridge, Gavin Ewart, Edgar Foxall, Francis Scarfe, Benjamin Peret, Kenneth Allott, George Barker & Humphrey Jennings.

Seller: Small Volume Books, Providence, RI, U.S.A.

Roger Roughton (ed.). Contemporary Poetry and Prose 1-10 (in nine volumes) (1936-1937) (all published). Roger Roughton, London, 1936.

Price: US$1040.13 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 16pp.-50pp. + a few subscription forms tipped in. A rare complete set of 'one of the magazines responsible for widening the knowledge of surrealist literature in Britain in the 1930s' (Miller and Price). Issue 2 is a special Surrealist number, double issue 4/5 includes six poems by Pablo Picasso plus Salvador Dali on Picasso, issue 6 contains selections from 'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont, and loosely inserted in issue 7 is the very scarce 'Declaration on Spain' issued by the Surrealist Group in England. Other contributors include Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Jarry, Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Saint-John Perse, Tristan Tzara, Rene Char, Benjamin Peret, Georges Hugnet, E. L. T. Mesens, Henry Moore (cover of issues 9 and 10), Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Horace Gregory, William Empson, Ruthven Todd, George Barker, Hugh Sykes Davies, Valentine Penrose, Kenneth Allott, Gavin Ewart, Francis Scarfe, Isaac Babel, and Roughton. Staples rusty, the wrappers rubbed and spotted/marked in places, a couple with pencilled prices to the front, those of issue 1 with an unobtrusive chip to the fore edge and splitting at the spine (but secure), issue 9 also split at the base of the spine, the contents generally clean however. Issue 2 has the ownership inscription of Nicholas Moore (as does issue 1, though it is faded or perhaps erased), and the set is held in a cloth-backed box.

Seller: Test Centre Books, Norwich, United Kingdom