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236. ORWELL, George. the collected essays, Journalism and letters. edited by sonia orwell and ian Angus. Secker & Warburg. 1968.
£298
8vo. 4 vols.; original blue cloth; frontispieces; a very nice set in the dust- jackets.
first collected edition.
237. OZ. oz no. 16. oz proudly presents the magic theatre. Oz. november 1968.
£298
280 x 197 mm. original paper wrappers, in custom-made black flapcase with red morocco label to front; illustrated throughout in colour and black and white; very good.
Oz, the famous underground magazine, was founded in 1963 in sydney, Australia by richard neville, martin sharp and richard Walsh. After the magazine had attracted several charges for osbcenity, resulting in suspended prison sentences for its creators, neville and sharp moved to the uk and published the first london Oz in 1967. While neville was most responsible for editiorial content, it was sharp who masterminded the magazine’s increasingly bold graphic art. this issue marks the high point of his work with Oz, being hailed as ‘arguably the greatest achievement of the entire british underground press’ (Jonathon green, All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counter-culture, 1998, p. 356). it contains very little text, being, in green’s phrase, a ‘multi-paged collage’ with multiple levels of meaning and juxtapositions of iconic figures as diverse as John lennon, hitler, buddha and sophia loren. it subverts not only establishment culture and customs but also the idea of the magazine as a literary product; it is intended as work of countercultural art. sharp’s lithographed imagery provided a crisp, bright, full-coloured interpretation of psychedelia, informed by his use of lsd, which resonated with the wider underground scene. his visual approach echoed the aural collages being put together by the beatles during this period (as well as peter blake’s cover for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) and his friendship with eric clapton led him to design the famous dayglo cover for the cream album Disraeli Gears.
other issues of Oz available.
238. PALGRAVE, Francis Turner. the golden
treasury.Macmillan & Co. 1909.
£298
8vo.,finely bound by riviere and son in full dark blue morocco, lettered in gilt on spine, rich gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt, printed on india paper. A handsome volume.
first complete edition printed on india paper. A choice copy of this famous anthology.
239. PANKHURST, E Sylvia. the home front. A mirror to life in england during the World War Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1932.
£850
8vo., original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. portrait frontispiece and 36 black and white photographs. spine slightly sunned otherwise a very good copy.
first edition inscribed by the author “With comradely regards e sylvia pankhurst 4th february 1933”.
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by the beginning of 1912 sylvia pankhurst had moved away from her mother emmeline and sister christabel and their Women’s social and political union (Wspu), disapproving, as a committed pacifist, of the union’s increasingly violent stance. While emmeline and christabel gradually turned the suffragette’s fight into a war of the sexes – culminating in the campaign “votes for Women and chastity for men” in 1913 - sylvia got more and more involved in the social struggle in london’s east end.
At the end of 1913 the break that had been in the air for some time became a fact. At the request of her sister and her mother sylvia and her east end branch left the Wspu and became the independent east london federation of the suffragettes with its own organ, The Woman’s Dreadnought. the outbreak of the first World War widened the breach. emmeline and christabel became strongly patriotic, and rechristened their organ The Suffragette into Britannia, stopped all suffrage activities and helped with the recruiting of volunteers for the armed forces.
sylvia, on the other hand, took the socialist stance that the war only furthered capitalism. she agitated for social facilities for the wives and children of enlisted working-class men, became more of a pacifist during the war and spoke on an anti-conscription platform when conscription was to be enacted. in the east end she founded a toy factory to provide work for the women who had become unemployed with the breakdown of luxury manufactories as a result of the war. the former pub “the gunmaker’s Arms” was reshaped into “the mother’s Arms”, a maternity clinic, day nursery and montessori nursery school. she opened cost-price restaurants for working women and continually agitated with local and central authorities about the provision and prices of food. in 1916 the organisation was renamed into the “Workers’ suffrage federation”, and The Woman’s Dreadnought became The Workers’ Dreadnought. in 1917 siegfried sassoon chose the dreadnought as the vehicle to first publish his views opposing the war.
partly as result of the war – and the large-scale involvement of women in the munitions industry and many other vital economic activities – the representation of the people bill was enacted in 1918, enfranchising about 8? million women above 30 years of age, women householders or the
wives of
householders, occupiers of land and university graduates.
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