Life and Letters. Vol. I. No. 5. October 1928.

First edition. 8vo. [pp.112]. Red and white patterned wraps, printed in black. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy.

Covers a tad dusty and age-toned, abrasion to tail of backstrip, slight chip at lower fore-corner, else Very Good.

Includes the initial publication of 'Literary Taboos' by Desmond MacCarthy, 'Belinda' by Hilaire Belloc, 'Wordsworth in the Tropics' by Aldous Huxley, and 'The Niece of an Earl' by Virginia Woolf [Kirkpatrick C305]. Early issue of Life and Letters, an inter-war English literary journal published under the editorship of Desmond MacCarthy for most of its run. A precursor to Cyril Connolly's Horizon, it counted H. E. Bates, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Clark, Cyril Connolly, E. M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, and Evelyn Waugh among its contributors.