Author: [GRAPHICS & ART] [BRAILSFORD, Henry Noel]
Title: The New Leader Book: Fifteen Woodcuts and Drawings in A Portfolio, with Sketches, Stories, and Poems from the New Leader
Publication: London: Office of the New Leader, 1925
Edition: First Edition
Description: First printing. Quarto (31.5cm). Orange paper wrappers printed in black; 28pp; 15 loose plates, black and white relief blocks in text. With a subscription slip laid in. Rubbed at edges, spine half split, edges of portfolio split, mild foxing to text, occasional foxing to plate edges: around Very Good.
A collection of art prints and stories from the 1925 New Leader, the weekly periodical of the Independent Labour Party (it was originally and is currently known as the Labour Leader). From 1922-1926, under the editorship of prolific leftwing journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, the paper "acquired an international reputation" by "[b]alancing ideological exhortation with cultural enrichment... Without neglecting practical politics or industrial affairs, it attracted leading artists and intellectuals to its roster" (ODNB). This issue includes a contribution from George Bernard Shaw, Gwen Raverat, Winifred Holtby, and Muirhead Bone, as well as several copies from Russian paintings in Moscow. Uncommon, with only 10 copies recorded in OCLC. #61870.
Seller ID: 61870
Subject: Art, Photography & Architecture, Great Britain, Radical, Utopian, Labor & Reform Movements