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First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xviii, 366; x, 787, (1) pp. Publisher's faux leather boards, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Frontispieces plus 24 pages of illustrations in each volume. Slight sunning to the spines with occasional mild chafing to the extremities, very good. Seller Inventory # 39590
Title: Letters of. Edited, with an Introduction, by...
Publisher: London: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 1972
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITIONS, plates and illustrations to the text, pencil note at head of letter on p. 546 (this by Barbara Bagenal, see below), pp. xviii, 366; viii, [1], 367-787, 8vo, original maroon leatherette, backstrips lettered in gilt, top edges dusty and a little spotted, each flyleaf with the contemporary ownership inscription and address-label of Barbara Bagenal (see below), dustjackets with designs by Duncan Grant and Fry respectively, slightly nicked at head of faded backstrip panels, very good. The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and worked with Fry at the Omega Workshops; though not mentioned in the letters, she is cited as the source of the letter to Mrs. Oswald Sickert included in the second volume - at the head of which she has noted the name 'Bessie' (presumably how the recipient was addressed). Seller Inventory # 75941
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