R & A Petrilla, Booksellers

Rajan, Balachandra & Andrew Pearse, editors

FOCUS ONE [and] FOCUS TWO

London: Dennis Dobson, (1945)-1946. First Editions. Original Cloth. Two volumes. pp: 144, four b&w illustrations on coated stock; 138. Printed on War Economy paper. Bound in blue cloth and gray cloth; both in color-pictorial dust wrappers, lightly chipped. Provenance: Focus Two has the blind-stamp of R.P. Blackmur on the front endpaper. 8.75" x 5.5" Very Good / Very Good. Item #038392

The first volume includes a long discussion of Kafka and Rex Warner, essays on current trends in writing, and selected poetry. Focus Two contains a symposium on the realist novel in the 1930s (Hemingway, Koestler, Silone, Malraux), along with selected poetry , a short story by Wolf Mankowitz, and literary criticism.

Price: $75.00