Maud Sumner (6 results)

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Maud Sumner (illustrator). 1st Edition. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Boards plastic protected. 167pp with a fair bit of untidy underlining in pen. A few of the leaves are worn at the outer edge of the textblock. The chief interest of this volume arguably lies with the seven full-page b/w plates by important South African artist Maud Sumner. Extremely scarce.

Stanbrook Abbey Press (illustrator). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, front cover gilt-stamped. (8) pages. Limited to 215 copies. Two poems. stiff paper wrappers, front cover gilt-stamped.

Card covers, stapled spine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 21 x 23cm 12pp card-covered exhibition catalogue, some discoloration to the opff-white covers. Maud Frances Eyston Sumner (1902 1985) was a South African artist born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Colony. After completing her schooling at Roedean in Johannesburg, she studied literature at Oxford University from 1922 to 1925 and then studied painting at the Westminster School of Art. Attracted to the French art scene, she moved to Paris in 1926, where she studied for four years at the Academie de la Grande ChaumiËre. She was part of the art movement called the Ateliers d'Art SacrÈ and loved the new style of painting taught by the masters George Desvallieres and his co-founder Maurice Denis, where everyday scenes were permeated with religious undertones. She was a designer for the stained glass manufacturer Goddard & Gibbs.

Card covers, stapled spine. Condition: Good in wraps. First Edition. 19 x 28cm 6pp good card-covered exhibition catalogue featuring a short text: 'Silence and Space' by Maud Sumner. Maud Frances Eyston Sumner (1902 1985) was a South African artist born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Colony. After completing her schooling at Roedean in Johannesburg, she studied literature at Oxford University from 1922 to 1925 and then studied painting at the Westminster School of Art. Attracted to the French art scene, she moved to Paris in 1926, where she studied for four years at the Academie de la Grande ChaumiËre. She was part of the art movement called the Ateliers d'Art SacrÈ and loved the new style of painting taught by the masters George Desvallieres and his co-founder Maurice Denis, where everyday scenes were permeated with religious undertones. She was a designer for the stained glass manufacturer Goddard & Gibbs.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Monotype Lutetia. One of 215 copies printed in black on Hodgkinson's white wove paper. Sewn and glued into overlapping Barcham Green white wove paper covers printed in gold on the front with a device by Margeret Adams. A fine copy. This piece by this South African artist is rare.