LEHMANN (John Frederick, 1907-1987, English Poet and Man of Letters)

Small collection of Three Autograph Letters Signed to Mr Hancox the first says that he has received "a catalogue from your firm ... I notice that you are preparing one on the Thirties, and I wondered whether you would be interested in my little paper-covered book of poems, published in 1944 'The Sphere of Glass'. I have one or two copies, as the survivors were returned to me when the Hogarth Press was taken over by Chatto in 1946/7, & have been buried in my glory-hole ever since ..." offering to sign some copies if he wanted to buy them, the second agrees the price at £4 and suggests that he buys one and can come back for more if they sell though "Even more was suggested to me by someone who should be an expert!", and the final one just sends his thanks, 4 sides 4to., 85 Cornwall Gardens headed paper, 20th May to 27th July

Lehmann joined Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946. He then established his own publishing company, John Lehmann Limited, with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann (who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets, Cecil Day-Lewis). They published new works by authors such as Sartre and Stendhal, and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. He also published the first two books by the cookery writer Elizabeth David, A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking.

Item Date:  1976

Stock No:  40067      £125

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