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. 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 (truncated)