quest 1

Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Topolski, Feliks (cover). Hamlyn, London, September 1965; folio, 143 x 323mm; pp [xvi, being adverts], 92, [xvi, being more adverts]; profusely illustrated throughout, a few images in colour; pictorial boards, lower front corner a little rubbed, dust wrapper repating Feliks Topolski's image from the cover, top and bottom edges of the wrapper somewhat frayed and with the lower front corner torn and missing - despite these faults with the cover, the item is still a good or better instance of the first issue of the magazine. ... ... ... ... This was published by Paul Hamlyn for the New London Synagogue but very little seems to be known about it. The opening comments 'Quest has come into being because of the need for a publication in the English-speaking Jewish world of high all-round literary and artistic content.' Contributors to this issue include Isiah Berlin, Chaim Bermant, Ruth Fainlight, Arnold Wesker, Michael Hamburger, Alan Montefiore, Dannie Abse, Josef Herman and several others. Evidence about the progress of the magazine in scant, this issue alone being shown through COPAC as held by various academic libraries. One entry suggest quarterly publication and another posits the last issue in 1977 although no copy of anything later than this one is to be found.