NIELSEN, Kay | Fortescue-Brickdale, Eleanor | Bookman [Special] Christmas Number 1925, The ìThe Bookman Special Christmas Number 1925,îwith ìThe Bookman Portfolioî Containing Three Color Plates by Kay Nielsen [NIELSEN, Kay, contributor]. The Bookman. [Special] Christmas Number 1925. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925.First edition. Large quarto (13 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 335 x 222 mm.). xxiv, [12, publisherís advertisements on yellow paper], [2, publisherís advertisements on blue paper], [3], 144-196, [2, publisherís advertisement], 208 (ìSupplement to The Bookman Christmas 1925î), xxv-xxxiv [publisherís advertisements] pp. Six mounted color plates (including frontispiece) by Charles Robinson, Lionel Edwards, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Kitty Shannon, and Winifred Brunton, numerous additional color and black and white plates by E.H. Shepard, Willebeek Le Mair, Mead Schaeffer, E.O. Hoppé, Donald Maxwell, and others. Text illustrations.Original cream-colored wrappers printed in green with mounted color plate on front wrapper. A near fine copy.Loosely laid in is ìThe Bookman Portfolio containing plates in colour by Kay Nielsen illustrating Hansel and Gretel and other stories by the brothers Grimmî with three color plates (ìCatskin,î ìRosebud,î and ìRumpelstiltskinî) mounted on heavy black stock with captions printed in gold. The Bookman (1891ñ1934) ìwas founded by William Robertson Nicoll (1851ñ1923), editor of the British WeeklyÖIt was conceived to popularize literature by offering a monthly read at 6d. a time to people with limited finance. As a journal for ëBook buyers, Book readers, and Book sellersí, the Bookman combined reviews with short items of news about book people and essays on general literary subjects, as well as many illustrations. There were also special issues on particular authors. It was highly successful in commercial terms, and a useful source of income to writers as diverse as W. B. Yeats (1865ñ1939), A.E.W. Mason, Walter Pater (1839ñ94), J.M. Barrie, Edward Thomas (1878ñ1917) and Arthur Ransome (1884ñ1967). If, between the wars, the Bookman was eventually unable to compete for readers with newspapers and radio, it had successfully established a definition of literary interest as that which combines an equal concern for past and present authors, for ëhighí and ëlowí fiction, and for a literary knowledge that included news about publishers and booksellers as well as about authorsî (The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction). 1925 first edition Price: USD 550.00 other currencies   order no. 00151    inquire

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