MITCHISON, Naomi (Naomi Margaret), 1897-1999 - editor :

AN OUTLINE FOR BOYS & GIRLS AND THEIR PARENTS.

London : Victor Gollancz, 1932. First edition. "Forward thinking" essays on science, civilisation and values by a variety of authors, including Eric Strauss on psychology, Hugh Gaitskell on economics, Clough Williams-Ellis on architecture and W.H.Auden on "Writing, or the Pattern between People". Illustrations by William Kermode and Ista Brouncker. Demy 8vo. (xii),916pp. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; some discolouration of upper and lower covers, but a good copy in the original yellow Gollancz dust-jacket, printed in cerise and black - lightly tanned, a little chipped and tape-repaired. From the collection of the late Barry Bloomfield, Auden's bibliographer. Bloomfield & Mendelson B6.

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