Author: MARTIN, KINGSLEY.
Title: Editor. A Volume of Autobiography 1931-1945.
Description: London: Hutchinson, 1968. 1st edition. "At thirty-three - without a job or prospect of one - Kingsley Martin fled the complacency and frustration of Manchester in 1930 and returned to find his fortune in London. Unexpectantly waiting for him was the empty editorial chair of the New Statesman and Nation, and a career in moulding (and shocking) opinion and influencing events which few editors of any country or period could hope to rival: by the end of the Second World War his paper was a national institution." Pp.xiv/340, black & white photo frontispiece + 8 further illustrations and 5 line drawings by Low, typed and signed letter from Kingsley Martin pasted to inside front board, gift message pasted to front free endpaper. Green cloth, dustwrapper has edge wear but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/G+.

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