Various - The American Review - Complete Run

VARIOUS, [KENNAN, George, WEBB, Walter Prescott, NAGEL, Ernest, GOODRICH, Lloyd, MARTIN, Terence, STEARNS, Marshall W., ALLEN, H. C., JOHNSON, Gerald W., TEMKO, Allan, KOUWENHOVEN, John A., LAZARFELD, Paul, BROWN, Maurice F., KALVODA, Josef, GALBRAITH, John Kenneth, LIPPMAN, Walter, FRANKLIN, Benjamin, DAVIDSON, Marshall B., MATHEWS, Joseph J., JOHNSON, James William, BLACK, Charles J., FRIEDAN, Betty, CIARDI, John, SNODGRASS, W. D., FROST, Robert, FITZGERALD, Robert, CATTON, Bruce, ROSSITER, Clinton, GREENBERG, Clement, SHAPIRO, Karl, FRIEDMAN, Norman, PEI, Mario].

The American Review. A quarterly journal of analysis and opinion.

London: United States Information Service, 1960-1961.

COMPLETE RUN, first editions. Five volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 4cm). Publisher's printed card wraps. With an introductory letter from the editors and a typed letter from the press office loosely inserted. No. 5 has a postcard noting that the journal had ceased to be produced.

Internally clean, press cutting in the first volume has left offset toning to facing pages. Light external wear. Fine.

Scarce with only nine institutional holdings within the UK and no other copies seen for sale at the time of cataloguing. Part of US Cold War era soft power projection, a journal highlighting modern American thinking and art.