THE SATURDAY BOOK: Founded by Leonard Russell

by Hadfield, John; ed

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Np:: Macmillan,, 1952. Hardcover; spine a bit faded; otherwise rather good.. Full-pg. & in-text b&w + color drawings, facsimiles & photos. 12th Annual Issue. Delightful short stories with some word-visits to Scotland & 19th-c. seaside; poems, humor, essays about Pigmies & prissy young ladies; notes about Noel Coward / Gertrude Lawrence, jazz performers, Rome, classic gardens; collecting cards that came with cigarettes, the 1920s, Bobby Jones / Jack Dempsey / Rudolph Valentino. ||| Illustrations range from vintage facsimiles, & charming original drawings, to photographs of early movie stars & 1920s `flaming youth.' ||| Genuinely enjoyable eclectic offerings from famed authors: Compton Mackenzie, Christopher Morley, Robert Gibbings, Sacheverell Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, John Betjeman, et al.