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Edited by <strong>Justin Hopper</strong>
Foreword by<strong> Richard  Mcneff
</strong>Afterword by<strong> Margaret Jennings-White
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148mm x 210mm
HB/PB, 304pp
Numerous Illustrations in b/w
ISBN: 9781907222801

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This comprises one of 300 copies of the hardback edition of the book; an 88pp chapbook of Runia Mcleod's 1947 feminist SF drama <em>Wax</em>, and an eight-track CD album of Neuburg's poems, <em>Swift Wings</em>, set to music by psychedelic folk musician Sharron Kraus and <em>Obsolete Spells</em> editor Justin Hopper.

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<em>This was the omen: Woe. An age to die,</em>
<em>I the last victim. So I passed from them</em>
<em>For ever, and I haunted the dark hem</em>
<em>Of the forest, for an age ere birth to rove,</em>
<em>The sacred Victim of an Holy Grove.</em>
<em>Then was I born anew; from that old birth</em>
<em>I culled this vision of forgotten earth.</em>

Victor Neuburg had two claims to fame: he discovered Dylan Thomas, and
Aleister Crowley once turned him into a camel.

<em>Obsolete Spells</em> presents another side of Neuburg, through his own earthy-yet-diaphanous poems and the strange books of the Vine Press, a hand-operated imprint he ran from his West Sussex cottage between 1920 and 1930.

As a printer and publisher, Neuburg acted as a conduit for bohemian writers and arts luminaries, and those dedicated to experimental living: Peter Warlock set his words to music, singer Marian Anderson lived in his spare room, and he was a fixture at his local utopian free-love community, the Sanctuary. Through it all, he turned the handle on the Vine Press, publishing books of nature writing and folksong; neo-pagan poems and utopian philosophy; hymns to Old Gods and paeans to love and wonder.

<em>Obsolete Spells</em> offers selections from every Vine Press book, including texts by Neuburg and many others, most of which have been out of print for a century. Introductory essays by editor Justin Hopper, a foreword by Richard McNeff and an afterword by Margaret Jennings-White (daughter of author Rold White) round out this unique glimpse into a lost literary idyll.

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