GREENE GRAHAMBiblio.com
GREENE GRAHAMBiblio.com
'Night and Day' July 1 to December 23 1937
1937355490718265London 1937. First Edition. Greene Graham Edited by: 'Night and Day' July 1 to December 23 1937 Published for Night and Day Magazines Limited by Chatto & Windus 1937. A Weekly Magazine of short stories poems articles critical reviews of books theatre cinema etc. A bound volume of 26 issues all ever published of the short-lived literary magazine edited by Graham Greene and with contributions by inter alia Evelyn Waugh Anthony Powell et al and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone Felix Topolski and others. Thick 4to. Attractive modern blue cloth with red leather label to the spine lettered in gilt. Miss Elizabeth Bowen Theatre Reviewer; Evelyn Waugh Book Reviewer; and Graham Greene Film Critic. All original covers bound in. The magazine ceased publication owing to the famous libel action brought by MGM on behalf of Shirley Temple whom Greene was alleged to have insulted in his review of the film adaptation of Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie" a 1937 Shirley Temple film in which the not-yet-10-year-old Temple helps her father a British colonel in India. The magazine was sued for libel and the movie studio won the lawsuit with the judge writing "This libel is simply a gross outrage." VG and rare. This is a very heavy book which will attract additional postage particularly if ordered from overseas. Scarce. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
