first edition
1939 · (London)
by De Montalk, Count Geoffrey Potocki
(London): The Right Review, 1939. First edition. Covers are lightly creased along upper edge and tip of one corner, else a near fine copy. First edition. WOODCUT BY SURREALIST MARGUERITE SALLE. Early issues of The Right Review are scarce; OCLC lists one institutional holding of various issues [British Library]. This issue includes an original woodcut ('Tiki') by surrealist artist Marguerite Salle. 'The Right Review' was issued by poet Geoffrey Wldyslaw Vaile Potocki de Montalk (1903-1997), who was born in Auckland, New Zealand; he moved to England in 1926 and settled in France in 1949. In 1932 he was "arrested after attempting to publish a manuscript of erotic translations of works by Rabelais and Verlaine, with three short bawdy verses of his own... The charge was 'obscene libel'... he was sentenced to six months in prison... Aldous Huxley... later funded the purchase of Potock's first printing press..." [per wikipedia]. Potocki de Montalk edited and published 'The Right Review' from 1936-1973; early issues were privately printed by Count Potocki de Montalk.
(Inventory #: 339276)