A facsimile copy of the first issue of the LRB, dated 25 October 1979, with pieces by John Bayley, Karl Miller, William Empson, Francis Wyndham, Frank Kermode, Stuart Hampshire, Ralf Dahrendorf, Wynne Godley, Emma Rothschild, Rosalind Mitchison, Michael Holroyd, Dan Jacobson and Randolph Quirk as well as poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.