ANTIQUARIAN PREJUDICE. [HOGARTH SIXPENNY PAMPHLETS NUMBER THREE]
by BETJEMAN, John
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Tavistock Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. Octavo. Orange paper hand-sewn wrappers, lettered in brown. 30pp. 7¼ x 4¾. Bump on the lower fore-tip, ever so slightly sunned at spine edge, else very good or better. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions.
First edition; published May 1939 at 6d.; 3000 copies printed. Originally delivered as a lecture to the Group Theatre. According to the British Library, "The company was founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley, and it soon managed to attract a remarkable group of writers and artists. It produced plays by Shakespeare, T S Eliot, W H Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender, among others, and also organised a range of cultural activities."
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First edition; published May 1939 at 6d.; 3000 copies printed. Originally delivered as a lecture to the Group Theatre. According to the British Library, "The company was founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley, and it soon managed to attract a remarkable group of writers and artists. It produced plays by Shakespeare, T S Eliot, W H Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender, among others, and also organised a range of cultural activities."
. WOOLMER 443. .
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- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
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- Title
- ANTIQUARIAN PREJUDICE. [HOGARTH SIXPENNY PAMPHLETS NUMBER THREE]
- Author
- BETJEMAN, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- Tavistock Square, London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION, SCARCE
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...