COTERIE

Complete runs of these important inter-war journals dedicated to literature and the arts, founded and edited by Chaman Lall, an Indian immigrant and law student at Oxford University. Coterie had a strong focus on modernist poetry - including some of the earliest work by Aldous Huxley and T.S. Eliot - while publishing short fiction, criticism, and art. The journal published contributions by Conrad Aiken, A.E. Coppard, Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell, Hilda Doolittle, Richard Aldington, Russell Green, Wilfred Childe, Babette Deutsch, John Gould Fletcher, Edward J. O'Brien, Raymond Pierpont, Roy Campbell, Frank Harris, L.A.G. Strong, Oscar Wilde, and others, with illustrations by William Roberts (also cover), Nina Hammett, Amadeo Modigliani, André Derain, J. Rubczak, and Moise Kisling. Coers by David Bomberg, Mary Stella Edwards, A.Allinson, E.Brown, Nikna Hamnett. A well-preserved set, seldom found complete. The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography, p.255. Covers of NEW COTERIE designed by William Roberts. With contributions of many important modern writers: D.H. Lawrence, H.E. Bates, Huxley, Nancy Cunard, Clifford Bax, Karl Capek, a.o. Art contribs. by Stanley Spencer, Jean de Bosschère, Nina Hamnett, Jacob Kramer, William Roberts, etc. Well-preserved sets, seldom found complete. The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography, p.255. Condition: Coterie: ; original pictorial card wrappers; 48; 64; 96; 96; 80; 124pp; numerous illustrations.Trivial wear to base of spines, with No.1 showing a tiny triangular chip to lower left corner of front wrapper, and a few tiny tears along the lower edges