Orpheus: A Symposium of the Arts. Vol. 1 by Lehmann, John, 1907-1987,ed - 1948

Norfolk, CT.New Directions, 1948. Hard Cover. 190 pages, plates; 23.5 cm. Edited by John Lehmann who had worked for the Woolf s at the Hogarth Press and set up his own publishing business. He issued a second volume in 1949. Includes Tiller, 'Summer Idyll'; Newby, 'Ten Miles from Anywhere'; Sitwell, 'Song'; Lewis, 'The Woman Alone'; Bunin, 'Tanya'; Seferis, 'The Thrush'; Supervielle, 'A Child of the High Seas'; Warner, 'The Poetry of George Seferis'; Sitwell, 'A Short Character of Arnold Bennett'; Denvir, 'Modern French Tapestries'; Ayrton, 'Entrance to a Wood'; Fleming, 'Renzo Vespignani'; Acton, 'Modern Painting in Mexico'; Brook, 'Style in Shakespeare Production'; Chappell, 'The Skull and the Ivy Leaves'; Queneau, 'The Prince from Poldavia.' Stock# 30,026. Tan cloth boards, front & spine decorated in gold; rear cover stained, wrinkled, top of spine torn, ink owner's name; withal good+/ no dj. Literature, photography, drama, theater, art.