Price: £70
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1931
Stock Number: 75481
Strachey (Lytton)
Portraits in Miniature and other Essays.
Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting, pp. [viii], 218, crown 8vo, original blue-grey cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded with slight lean to spine, top edge grey, and slightly dusty, other edges faintly spotted with tail edge roughtrimmed, good
Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Notes: The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade (and thereby later with Strachey), who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and had relationships with Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, David Garnett and John Maynard Keynes. Her ownership inscription records the later purchase of this copy at a bookshop in Rye.
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