B34 BRITISH THOUGHT 1947 1947

[whole enclosed within single-rule rectangular box:] BRITISH | THOUGHT 1947 | With an introduction by Ivor Brown | [publisher’s emblem] | THE GRESHAM PRESS | PUBLISHERS | NEW YORK ⸱ 1947

Collation: [1]–[14]16 [15]8, 232 leaves.

p.[i] BRITISH THOUGHT 1947; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, manufacturing and rights reservations notices; pp.v–vii TABLE OF CONTENTS; p.[viii] blank; pp.9–17 INTRODUCTION; pp.18–22 PUBLISHER’S NOTE; p.[23] BRITISH THOUGHT 1947; p.[24] blank; pp.25–456 text; pp.457–461 NOTES ON AUTHORS; pp.[462]–[464] blank.

21.6 × 15.2 cm. Bulk: 2.9/3.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in scarlet cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in silver: [broad rule] | [light rule] | BRITISH | THOUGHT | 1947 | [swelled rule] INTRODUCTION | BY | IVOR BROWN | THE | GRESHAM | PRESS | [light rule] [broad rule]

Price: $3.75. Number of copies unknown. Published summer 1947 in a pale, blue-grey laid paper dust-jacket printed in red and black.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘It Was a Stable World’ (pp.226–235).

An English issue of this book, using the American sheets, was published by Nicholas Kaye in September 1947 as ‘Current British Thought No. 1.’