[Rarebooks] FS: RUN OF AN IMPORTANT LITERARY MAGAZINE

[Norman Kane]

NINE, A MAGAZINE OF POETRY AND CRITICISM.  1949 - 1956. EDITED BY PETER RUSSELL.
London: Peter Russell, Oct., 1949 – April, 1956.
The first 11 issues of this short-lived, important literary magazine,, numbered 1 – 11.  Original wrappers, very good.  Contributors include: T. S. Eliot (2)  Ezra Pound (5), Roy Campbell (10), Tate, Cummins, Marianne Moore, C. S. Lewis, Wyndham Lewis, Robt. Graves, Padraic Colum, Empson & Eluard.                                                                                      I
“In 1948 Russell set up an "Ezra Pound Circle' which met met once a fortnight in a London pub. In 1949 Russell founded the literary magazine Nine (named after the Nine Muses) which in its eleven issues published many notable poets including George Barker, Basil Bunting, Roy Campbell, Ronald Duncan, Paul Eluard, William Empson, David Gascoyne, Robert Graves, Michael Hamburger. The following year he started The Pound Press. Russell published work by Pound's friends, An Examination of Ezra Pound (1950), but also the first English translations of Mandelstam, Pasternak and Borges. Russell ran the Grosvenor Bookshop in Tunbridge Wells from 1951 to 1959. Both Nine and the Pound Press ceased operation in 1956, and later that year Russell met the young William Cookson and in 1958 introduced him to Krystyna and Czesław Bednarczykof The Poets' and Painters' Press[4] and suggested that Cookson found his own journal, which was to be the long-running Agenda. Russell introduced him to the works of Hugh McDiarmid and Tom Scott. Cookson saw Agenda as in part a continuation of what Russell had done with Nine.[5] In 1995 Agenda brought out one of its dedicated issues: 'A Tribute to Peter Russell'.”
$190.00 ($170.00 to the  trade) + post.

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