(1940) Fortune Press. An Anthology of Criticism, Poems & Stories. An uncommon Anthology being the first of a group edited anonymously by J F Hendry. Frontis by Picasso. Contributors include Dylan Thomas, H Treece, N MacCaig, N Moore, D Cooke, S Schimanski, R Melville, P O'Connor,etc. A very good copy in a complete dust jacket.

Front jacket: 'This volume, comparable in importance with new signatures and new country, is the first attempt made to display the influences and show the progress of the work done by experimental writers since the advent of the Auden-Splender-Day-Lewis triumvirate. It is in effect a demonstration of the direction travelled by advanced writing since the beginning of the decade, and if only as such, must be read.
The apocalypse, it may be remarked, is the apocalypse of belief and system; and the book reveals the causes and effects of contemporary idealogies political and philosophical, the bankruptcy of present living, and ultimately takes a stand which may well prove to the beginning of the New Humanism"