KINGSLEY: The life, letters and diaries of Kingsley Martin.
Pp. 414, 12 plates, index; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, front panel faintly scuffed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1973. First edition. *Kingsley Martin (1897-1969) edited the political magazine the New Statesman for thirty years. 'Those three decades - 1930-60 - were probably the most dangerous and exciting in human history; and throughout them Kingsley Martin, in his diaries and letters and the columns of his paper, recorded his own reactions of hope and fear, rage and incredulity, compassion and social prophecy' [wrapper blurb]. Item #180654
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