Seeds in the Wind: 20th CENTURY JUVENILIA FROM W.B. YEATS TO TED HUGHES.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£16.95) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,montage'd monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Inevitable but slight sunning/fading to spine/backstrip of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,1st edn,11-208pp [paginated] includes illustrations list /table,an introduction,60 authors' contributions,18 b/w assorted illustrations by various authors - includes b/w illus frntis by Anthony Powell,sources,index of first lines and acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w illustrated frntis to it's recto,title page,in memoriam (to Michael Allmand,V.C. 1923-1944. Founder of The Wind and Rain - a literary review journal.) and contents list/table. George Orwell was an imperialist patriot,Virginia Woolf making fun of feminism and T S Eliot as the author of an adventure story set in the South Seas are some of the literary surprises to be found in this wide-ranging collection of 20thC juvenilia.The age limit has been set at sixteen.By the time Stevie Smith and Elizabeth Bishop were two and three respectively they were composing couplets,and the parson poet Andrew Young,by the time he was five,had set down a short poem about the battle of Bannockburn,which says almost everything that there is to be said about war: 'They fell,they fell Till there were few to tell How the great battle was ended.' Neville Braybrooke has been collecting material for this book fo the past thirty years.He has encouraged friends like Francis King,David Gascoyne and Elizabeth Jennings to search through their old papers.Other items he has tracked down in school magazines. John Betjeman's attempt to find words to rhyme with "summer" first appeared in the Dragon School magazine in 1922,when he was thirteen. Malcolm Lowry, when he began contributing to the Leys School magazine,was anxious to try his hand as a sports correspondent. Jocelyn Brooke,on his eighth birthday,set out to write a natural history of Surrey, where he lived,and within the next few months completed four chapters. There are drawings by Bernard Shaw,David Jones and Anthony Powell as well as illustrated short stories by Wyndham Lewis and Evelyn Waugh, which have never appeared before.H G Wells's novel 'The Desert Daisy' is printed here in full and there is an extract from 'Filthy Lucre' by Beryl Bainbridge - both completed when their authors were thirteen.Included also are unpublished poems by Katherine Mansfield,Robert Graves, Kathleen Raine and Thomas Keneally.However,as one might expect, there is far more to this anthology than curiosity value.E M Forster's attitude to the British raj in 'A Passage to India' is already anticipated in a school essay which he wrote at the age of sixteen,and there are anticipated echoes,too,in 'Finnegan's Wake' of a translation that James Joyce made of an ode by Horace when he was fifteen.'Seeds in the Wind' - entertaining, instructive and often prophetic - is about 20thC literature in the making. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!