Life and Letters. Vol. III. No. 16. September 1929.

First edition. 8vo. [pp.81 (243 – 324)]. Printed wraps in red and black. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy.

Covers a tad dusty and age-toned, abrasion to tail of backstrip, else very good.

Includes the initial publication of 'The Mark on the Shutter' by Desmond MacCarthy, 'Of Silence' by F. L. Lucas, 'England in Decline' by G. M. Young, and 'Dr. Burney's Evening Party' by Virginia Woolf. The latter about a failed conversation – or, rather, a conversation that never got off the ground. The party was given in 1777/78 in honour of Dr. Johnson with the other guests being too cowed by the man's reputation to start one and the polymath loath to ever begin one. "Somebody had always to start a topic before he consented to pursue it or to demolish it." Essay collected in Woolf's The Common Reader Second Series (1932).

[Kirkpatrick C313]