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[004546] Aragon; Auden, W. H.; Bergamin, Jose; Bloch, Jean Richard, Cunard, Nancy; Howard, Brian; Mann, Heinrich; Montagu, Ivor; Neruda, Pablo; Sender, Ramon; Spender, Stephen; Tzara, Tristan. Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War. London: Left Review, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. Card Covers. Pamphlet. Good. [32]p. Original card covers, n.d. but 1937

Covers lightly browned with some small light abrasions towards to top edge of upper cover, lightly stained to bottom edge of lower cover, staples slightly rusted, internally quite bright and clean

One hundred and forty-eight authors replied to a questionnaire sent out by Nancy Cunard and friends, with one hundred and twenty-eight responses being for the government, five being against, with the remainder being neutral

Prominent authors asked included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Liam O’Flaherty, C. Day Lewis, Samuel Beckett, V. Sackville-West, and T. S. Eliot

Selected bibliographic references include for G. B. S., Laurence B255; for Auden, Bloomfield and Mendelson, B18; for T. S. Eliot, Gallup Bl3; for Beckett, Federman and Fletcher 490; and for H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society, page 54