Soho Centenary 1844-1944 (Signed by William Nicholson, Eric Kennington et al)

Soho Centenary: A Gift from Artists, Writers and Musicians to the Soho Hospital for Women. Limited edition of 250 signed copies, this being No. 247. A distinguished anthology with contributions from leading authors, poets, journalists and artists. Illustrated throughout with one-colour half-tones and full-colour plates, including a colour reproduction of William Nicholson’s Portrait of Diana Low — the original currently on display in Pallant House Gallery’s major new reassessment of Nicholson’s work. Signed by William Nicholson, Eric Kennington, James Laver, Anna Zinkeisen, Doris Zinkeisen, Peter Cheyney, Henry Rushbury, and others.

Condition: Brown cloth boards lightly sunned at top left of front panel; two small white marks to front. Dust-wrapper worn with edge chipping and a segment of loss at head of spine. Contents clean, bright, and well preserved.

Contents:

Foreword, by James Laver
The Ambulance Ship, by John Masefield
A Small Girl, by Mary Lavin
Calico Windows, by Elizabeth Bowen
The Living, by Clement Dane
Walter Sickert and “The Whirlwind,” by Tancred Borenius
Dogs of War, by Marguerite Steen
“A Lovely!”, by Charles B. Cochran
A Child Is Born, by Stephen Vincent Benét
Truman Memory, by Roland Pertwee
Barn Owl, by John Jarmain
Alice Meynell, by John Jarmain
Dots and Lines — A Note on Soho Music, by Hubert Foss
A Van Eyck Landscape, by Margaret Lane
A Corner in Piccadilly, by A. H. McIndoe
Country Hotel, by Virginia Graham
A Creditor of France, by Storm Jamieson
Dance Night, by J. A. R. Wylie
Variation on a Theme of Pushkin, by Robert Nichols
Woolston’s Waterloo, by F. Tennyson Jesse
Roses and Ruins, by John Pudney
So I Praise These, by John Pudney
Bluebell Boggs, by Noel Streatfeild
The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson, by G. B. Stern
Reviewing, by Frank Swinnerton
A Glance Backwards with No Lament, by Michael Balcon
St. Petersburg, Pieter, Petrograd, Leningrad, by E. M. Almedingen
Portrait of a Londoner, by Emlyn Williams
Exit Permit, by Peter Cheyney

Illustrations:

The Heart of England, by Eric Kennington

I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls, by Belcher, A.R.A.
Antiques, Newport Court, W.C.2, by John Cole, R.O.I.
Portrait of Diana Low, by Sir William Nicholson, R.A.
Behind the Scenes, by Steven Spurrier, A.R.A., R.B.A.
Elizabethan Lady, by Doris Zinkeisen
Ruffs and Cuffs, by Doris Zinkeisen
St. Paul’s, North Side — From Cannon Street. 1942, by H. Rushbury, R.A.
The Return, by C. R. W. Nevinson, A.R.A.
Surgical Team — East Grinstead. Mr. McIndoe Operating, by Anna Zinkeisen, R.O.I., R.D.I.
The Road to Maids Morton, by Bernard Adams, R.P., R.O.I.
Party at Tea, by R. O. Dunlop, A.R.A.
Garden Party, by Robert Gresham, R.B.A., R.O.I.
Wooden Walls, by Charles Pears
Manhattan, by Anna Zinkeisen, R.O.I., R.D.I.
Shepherd’s Delight, by C. F. Tunnicliffe, A.R.A.
Composition, by H. Carr