1929 Six Mandrake Press Booklets

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first editions of these works.

In the original unclipped dustwrappers.

These six works are all from the 'Mandrake Booklets' series.

Containing;

'A Trip to New York', by W. J. Turner. Illustrated with a frontispiece by George Bissill.

'A Bed of Feathers', by Rhys Davies. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Lionel Ellis.

'Love One Another', by Edgell Rickword.

'The Bloomsbury Wonder', by Thomas Burke.

'The Ladder', by Vernon Knowles. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Eric Bailey.

'The Bushwhackers', by P. R. Stephensen.

Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more.