Romyn Conrad (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition. Signed and dedicated on FEP by author ('Dickie'). Jacket is price-clipped. Boards and page block are lightly marked. Spine ends are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW. Signed by Author. Used.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition, First Printing. Fine/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on front endpaper. Inscription reads, 'To ------ & ----/With my best wishes/Dick/November 1973'. TOGETHER WITH AN ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHER'S BOOKMARK SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The illustration on the bookmark is of Timothy Bhalu and the signing reads 'From/Dick'. A children's novel by British artist and author Conrad 'Dick' Romyn (1915-2007) which tells the story of an Himalayan talking bear and how he learnt to hunt, was captured, and how he 'joined' the Indian Army. A fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR together with a SIGNED BOOKMARK. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folding sheet. Biography, 26 item catalogue, one b/w illust. In a period of classified pigeon-holes, Romyn is the kind of impassioned misfit who might have found sanctuary at the Beaux Arts. In fact, how- ever, the Upper Grosvenor Galleries mount this travelled artist's first London show of peasants or shepherds ruminating about rocky shores, un- wieldy fishermen closing in their nets, all with a sense of immemorial ritual. The elements in this imaginative world are transformed from sharpest visual impressions of Brittany or wherever. Only to indicate its character one might recall perhaps the ungainly folk of Permeke en- circled by the phosphorescent ambience of Kokoschka's Cornish cove.Here Romyn aims at a mural effect of strung- out figures, heightened by his poetic feeling.Other points of departure are suggested by wry characterisations, and a luminous checkered table- piece as sensuous as a Bonnard. The broadly vigorous and varied handling, and colour sup- porting the feeling of elemental forces, make Conrad Romyn a name to remember. If he could but identify himself passionately with the myth of a particular tract we might have an artist to approach the epic quality of Jack Yeats.