The Third Dimension, Voices from Radio 3
with bookplate of Leonard Miall, journalist and contributor and a handwritten letter from the publisher
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Printing Details
First edition. Hardback, limited to one hundred copies bound in quarter leather. Gilt titling to spine. 25.5 × 15.5cm, 157pp.
This copy belonged to journalist and contributor to the book, Leonard Miall, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Also loosely inserted is a handwritten letter to Mr Miall from the publisher, James Stourton of The Stourton Press, an art historian, publisher, and former chairman of Sotheby's. Leonard Miall (1914–2005), was a BBC journalist, he joined the BBC in 1939 before working for the Political Warfare Executive and SHAEF in the Second World War. He then became ther BBC's US correspondent before returning to London and rising to Assistant Controller and being in charge of the BBC's American operations.
An anthology of talks and poems, assembled by Philip French, from Radio 3's output of the 1980s. Contributors include Salman Rushdie, John Carey, Enoch Powell, Peter Porter, Charles Causley, Bernard Levin, Edward Norman, and many others, including, of course, Leonard Miall.
Condition
The leather is a little rubbed and scuffed to the front joint and spine ends, and the red cloth boards have a little grubby marking but remaining good. The contents are in good clean condition.
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Price
£30.00
