Declaration

Maschler, Tom (editor) Doris Lessing, John Osborne, Lindsay Anderson and others
Publication Date 1957
Publisher MacGibbon and Kee,
Binding Hardback
Condition Very good copy in fair dust wrapper
SKU 24823
Notes Black cloth with gilt titles to spine is a little worn to spine ends else very clean and neat. Dust jacket is a little dust marked and with some faint ink transfer to white areas. Dust jacket is also creased to edges with some loss to spine ends. Scattered foxing. Text is clean. Binding is sound.

Description

Hardback. 202pp. Dust jacket by Eduardo Paolozzi. 8 essays by a selection of young writers on the role of the writer, critic or film-maker in society: Lindsay Anderson, Kenneth Tynan, Stuart Holroyd, John Osborne, Doris Lessing, Colin Wilson, Bill Hopkins, John Wain. The editor Tom Maschler went on to be head of publishing company Jonathan Cape and founder of the /booker prize. His selection of writers for this volume includes many who remain well known. The writers included may or may not be among those called at the time The Angry Young Men or more dismissively referred to as “a new espresso evangelist, another seer of the soup kitchens, a fresh messiah of the milk bars...”, and this is discussed in the introduction. an interesting reflection on the changing society of Britain in the 1950s and views of the arts of young men and women. Loosely laid in is a 10 page review of Declaration by J. G. Weightman cut from The Twentieth Century December 1957, plus other newspaper cuttings.
Price: £12.00
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