Sutherland Graham Illustrator (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Card covers, French/English text, some marks to covers, gallery price lists loosely inserted, text block is clean & tight.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, (x),62pp, illustrated by Graham Sutherland, page edges browning, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, pictorial boards and quarter cloth, Very Good condition in rubbed and frayed dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sutherland, Graham (illustrator). Limited Edition. 255 pages, 8vo. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, of which this is no.627. Signed by author W. Somerset Maugham and illustrator Graham Sutherland on Limited page. Includes an original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland. Four pages preceding preface are facsimile reproductions of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript of Cakes and Ale. This volume has been rebound in red leather boards with gilt lettering along spine, two raised bands along spine, marbled endpapers and inside covers. Shelfwear: light rubbing along edges and cover boards, some light foxing along cover edges. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition. Signed by Author(s).

8vo, pp.[12], v255, [1], with a lithograph frontispiece, three leaves of facsimiles and illustrations by Sutherland throughout; a fine copy in the publisher's quarter white lambskin, blue lambskin sides, no glassine or slipcase; bookplate of D.G.Bridson (see below).No.132 of 1000 copies, signed by both author and artist. Cakes and Ale (1930) was Maugham's favourite work; this limited edition was published in honour of his eightieth birthday.Provenance: The Manchester-born poet, journalist and radio producer Douglas Geoffrey Bridson was responsible for over 800 broadcasts in his career at the BBC, 19331969, which culminated in his appointment as Programme Editor for Arts, Sciences, and Documentaries in the mid-1960s, when he was known as 'the cultural boss of the BBC'. Although he was a poet of no small ability himself (his March of the 45 was the first verse drama written for radio, in 1936), it was his tireless and democratic promotion of modern British and American literature on the airwaves that led to correspondence and then friendship with nearly all the major literary figures of his day, but most notably with Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Hugh MacDiarmuid, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes, many of whose works he brought to a wider audience through his radio productions. He published three of his own collections of poetry, a memoir of his years at the BBC, Prospero and Ariel (1971), and a study of the politics of Wyndham Lewis, The Filibuster (1972); his archive of papers and correspondence is now at the Lilly Library. Language: English.

First Edition. Maugham's Satirical Masterpiece-Signed Limited Edition With an Original Lithograph by Graham Sutherland MAUGHAM, W. Somerset Maugham. Cakes and Ale or The Skeleton in the Cupboard. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1954]. First edition thus. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies (this copy no. 975), signed by both the author and the illustrator. Large octavo (8 7/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 225 x 155 mm.). [viii], [i-iv], v-xii, 1-255, [1, blank] pp. With an original lithograph by Graham Sutherland and additional decorative illustrations. Publisher's quarter cream calf over dark blue cloth boards ruled in gilt, spine with black morocco label lettered in gilt. A fine copy, preserved in the original glassine wrapper and black board slipcase. A finely produced limited edition of one of Maugham's most celebrated novels, here enhanced by an original lithograph and illustrations by Graham Sutherland, one of the leading British artists of the mid-twentieth century. His distinctive style provides an effective visual counterpoint to Maugham's sharp and ironic portrait of literary society. Originally published in 1930, Cakes and Ale is widely regarded as one of Maugham's finest works - a witty and penetrating satire on authorship, reputation, and the hypocrisies of the literary world. An excellent, complete example, with the often-missing glassine wrapper intact. Signed.