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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Second impression of the true first edition, published in November 1968. The first impression was published in October 1968. With a 12 page introduction by B. S. Johnson, in addition to his own essay. ***Near fine in mauve cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages clean without any foxing. With photographic illustrated endpapers showing a railway platform full of evacuees. The poem: 'The Evacuees' by Norman Nicholson appears at the beginning of the book. ***In a very good green, monochrome illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of 42/- net. Edges of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed and creased, mainly at the head and tail of the spine. Light vertical crease to the back panel of the dustwrapper near the spine. Bottom corner of front flap slightly creased. Rubbing to the corners and edges of the dustwrapper. The colour is completely unfaded which is quite unusual for this title. Dustwrapper bright. **224mm x 146mm. 287 pages including selective bibliography plus acknowledgments page at the back of the book. ***'Four million children were evacuated in Britain at some time or another during the second world war. All of them must, to varying degrees, have been marked by their experiences - experiences that were, at times, both unpleasant and most disturbing. The Evacuees consists of thirty-three accounts by a random sample of those children. Some have become well-known; others are unknown to the general public; but the way evacuation affected them all is evident from what they write. ***This book is not history, though Mr. Johnson in his introduction places evacuation in its historical context - the facts and figures are themselves appalling. The accounts in the book are personal and subjective. It is a truism that anyone can write well about his childhood: when that childhood includes evacuation, the quality of writing from people who do not primarily consider themselves writers can be very high indeed, as more than a few pieces in this book confirm. ***Not all the contributions are in the form of reminiscences. There are extracts from novels and poems and a letter written at the age of fifteen by a boy to his parents who had threatened to evacuate him and his sister to Australia. Not everyone was evacuated within Britain: some tell of what it was like to be sent to Australia or Canada or the U.S.A.' (Quote from blurb to inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***A second impression of the true first edition, which was issued just a month after the first impression, complete in its original dustwrapper in unusually nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published as a paperback original [PBO]. ***Near fine in illustrated glossy card wrappers. The wrappers are clean with just very slight handling marks, and without any tears or creases. No reading creases to the spine. Internally near fine with no paper creases. Very slight fading to the red colour near to the spine on the front and rear covers. There is a name, place and date in pencil to the top of the half-title page 'Harriet Garnett, Islington Town Hall, 5th July 1972 - with a very light 'Withdrawn' stamp, indicating that the book was once held in Islington Council's reference library. No other inscriptions. Spine tight. ***157 pages including five pages of author bibliographies, plus a two-page publisher's competition at the rear. 205 mm x 135 mm. ***'Bryan Stanley William Johnson (5 Feb 1933 - 13 Nov 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic. He also produced television programmes and made films. Johnson led and associated with a loose circle of "experimental" authors in Sixties Britain, who included Alan Burns, Eva Figes, Rayner Heppenstall, Ann Quin, Stefan Themerson and Wilson Harris, among others. Many of them contributed to London Consequences, a novel consisting of a palimpsest of chapters passed between a range of participating authors, edited by Margaret Drabble and Johnson. Johnson also made numerous experimental films, published poetry, and wrote reviews, short stories and plays. For many years he was the poetry editor of Transatlantic Review. [Wiki] ***'London Consequences is a 1972 group novel written by twenty writers published for the Festivals of London that year. ***Margaret Drabble and B. S. Johnson conceived and edited the novel "London Consequences". The editors wrote the first and last chapters together, and gave the other novelists involved a brief outline of the two main characters. Each author would write his or her chapter, then pass the accumulating manuscript onto the next author. The interior chapters are by Rayner Heppenstall, Eva Figes, Gillian Freeman, Jane Gaskell, Wilson Harris, Olivia Manning, Adrian Mitchell, Paul Ableman, John Bowen, Melvyn Bragg, Vincent Brome, Peter Buckman, Alan Burns, Barry Cole, Julian Mitchell, Andrea Newman, Piers Paul Read and Stefan Themerson. The published book did not identify authors' individual contributions. The G.L.A.A. (Greater London Arts Association) offered a prize of £100 to anyone who correctly identified each chapter's author. Entry forms appeared at the back of the book. Readers had until 11 Aug 1972 to enter.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the true first edition, published as a paperback original. A scarce item, and of particular interest to collectors of the experimental literary work of B. S. Johnson. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.