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22 CUNARD, Nancy. Poems (Two) 1925. London: The Aquila Press Limited, 1930 ADDITIONALLY Signed by the author First edition, number 107 of 150 copies, this copy signed by the author, though not called for in the limitation. This was Cunard’s fourth work of poetry. “Nancy Cunard was an outlaw, as she had envisaged in her poems, a serious political activist, who lived an intense and lonely life dedicated to her causes . . . Her name is important in the history of surrealism and le tumulte noir in Paris, the struggle against Franco and fascism in the Spanish Civil War, and the twentieth-century global struggle for the recognition of African culture and the fight for racial justice” ( ODNB ). The Aquila Press was short-lived and closed the same year that this volume was published. The managing director Wyn Henderson took over the running of Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press so that Cunard could focus on producing Negro Anthology . Small folio. Original red and white patterned-paper boards designed by Elliott Seabrooke, printed paper label to front board, untrimmed. Covers slightly soiled and rubbed, occasional mark to contents, but overall a very good, bright copy. £1,250 [152736] 23 ELIOT, T. S., & others. The Criterion. London: R. Cobden- Sanderson, 1922–26 With the publisher’s own copy of the first volume, including the first appearance of “The Waste Land” A rare complete run of The Criterion under its original title, including the scarce and highly sought-after first volume,
which featured the first appearance in print of “The Waste Land”, here with an excellent provenance, being the publisher’s copy with the pencil ownership inscription, “R. Cobden-Sanderson, 15 Upper Mall, W6”. Founded with the financial backing of Lady Rothemere, The Criterion was the leading literary periodical of the 1920s and 1930s, publishing, among others, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, D. H. Lawrence, and W. B. Yeats. Eliot’s wide literary perspective situated the magazine at the centre of not only the British but also the wider European intellectual
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