Wilde Oscar

1920 · Best.-Nr. 23122204 — London: The Bomb Shop 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Coterie: A Quarterly Art Prose and Poetry; No. 6 &7 Winter 1920-21 Xmas double issue and final issue VERY SCARCE copy of this short-run but highly influential London-based journal of modern poetry literature and art. This issue features a never-before-published poem by OSCAR WILDE written before September 1888. With Aldous Huxley and Conrad Aiken serving in editorial capacities. Published in 1920-21. 120 pages and 4 pages of ads from literary publishers including Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press. First edition first printing. Quarto. Condition: VERY GOOD ABOUT THE JOURNAL A short-lived but important journal of post-WWI and start of the Roaring 20s dedicated to poetry prose and the arts founded and edited by Chaman Lall an Indian immigrant and law student at Oxford University. Coterie had a strong focus on modernist poetry - including some of the earliest work by Aldous Huxley and T.S. Eliot - while publishing short fiction criticism and art. The journal published contributions by many notable writers including Aldous Huxley T.S. Eliot Conrad Aiken Hilda Doolittle Richard Aldington Russell Green Wilfred Childe John Gould Fletcher Oscar Wilde and others. CONDITION REPORT The journal is in VERY GOOD condition - sunned extremities of soft wraps and interior pages. A few marks on the front cover and area of finger handling. Some light edge wear sun-darkened spine some cracking of hinges and joints. Vertical spine reading creases. Clean interior - No writing marks stamps or ex-libris marks. A Very Good copy of the final issue of this very scarce and important journal. The Bomb Shop unknown