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LEHMANN, John, (ed.) The London Magazine .A Monthly Review of Literature. 12 early issues 1954 - 1956, including the first 3 issues. £ 18.50




Volume 1, No. 1, February 1954: T.S. Eliot: A message; Louis MacNeice : Canto in memoriam Dylan Thomas; Elizabeth Jennings: Three poems; and Elizabeth Bowen, Thom Gunn, L.P.Hartley, William Plomer et al 

Volume 1, No. 2, March 1954: Vernon Watkins, James Courtage, Joyce Carey: Spring song; Felicien Marceau, Michael Swan et al 

Volume 1, No. 3, April 1954: W.H.Auden: Plains; P.H. Newby: The pioneer; and Roy Fuller, William Plomer, Paul Bowles, G.J. Warnock, J.C. Hall (spine torn at bottom) 

Volume 1, No. 6, July 1954: V.S. Pritchett: Portrait of a clerk. And Vernon Watkins, George Barker, Hugo Charteris, Paul Bowles et al. 

Volume 1, No 9, October, 1954: Tennessee Williams : The Mattress by the Tomato Patch in Wrappers. And Norman MacCaig, S.Spender, Jocelyn Brooke, Angus Wilson, Thom Gunn, Roy Fuller, Louis MacNeice and others 
Volume 1, No. 11, December 1954: Graham Greene: A few pipes; and Roy Fuller, Vernon Scannell, Vernon Watkins, Anna Kavan, Micvhael Swan et al. 

Volume 2, No. 1, January 1955: Italo Calvino: A trip to Mentone; Thom Gunn: Ralph's dream and Francis King, Walter Allen, L.D. Lerner, Peter Quennell, W.W. Robson 

Volume 2, No. 4, April 1955: Roy Fuller: Two poems; Marguerite Duras: The boa; John Wain: The painful filter, B.H. Liddell Hart: T.E. Lawrence, Aldington and the truth and Eleano Farjeon, Peter Mayne et al 

Volume 2, No. 11, November 1955: A Proust celebration. Venice & A fan. An unpublished fragment and a new essay. And the Duc de Grammont: Proust as I knew him; Louis Macneice,William Sanson, William Plomer, Lionel Trilling, J. Middleton Murry et al 

Volume 3, No. 1, January 1956: Thomas Hardy: 5 unpublished poems wwith an introduction by Evelyn Hardy; John Wain: Poem by an electronic brain; and Marcel Ayme, Violet Hammersley, George Barker, Peter Quennell. Idris Parry reviews Robert Musil [6 cm square cut off right bottom of front cover] 

Volume 3, no. 4 ,April 1956: E.M. Forster: Daughter dear" ( = the opening chapter of E. M. Forster's novel Marianne Thornton: a domestic biography (London : E. Arnold, 1956) and Four poems by Louis Macneice, P.H. Newby, Maurice Pons, Joeclyn Brooke Denis Donoghue et al. 

Volume 3, No. 11 , November 1956: Young English poets 1956-11: Dannie Abse, Thomas Blackburn, D.J. Enright, John Holloway, Jenny Joseph, Pat Kavcanagh, Quentin Stevenson, Carol Stewart, Anthony Thwaite and Mary Hutchinson, Colin Wilson, Ronald Hayman, Sewell Stokes, John Wain.

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