Selected Letters.

Gertler (Mark)

Selected Letters.

Edited by Noel Carrington. With an Introduction on his Work as an Artist by Quentin Bell.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 24 plates and a further illustration to the text, a few small spots, pp. 271, 8vo, original dark brown boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge purple, others spotted, free endpapers browned, tape shadows to endpapers, dustjacket sometime taped to endpapers, a little frayed around head, good

Publication Details: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965

Notes: With the ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles): she an artist, friend of Dora Carrington from the Slade, and on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group - including as the sometime-partner of David Garnett, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, and J.M Keynes. Bagenal is mentioned recurrently in Gertler's letters, and acknowledged by the Editor as a source of information for this book, this copy being sent to her by Richard Garnett at the publisher - as evinced by her inscription and the laid in letter from the same, on Hart-Davis headed-paper (rather spotted), expressing his shock that ...moreWith the ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles): she an artist, friend of Dora Carrington from the Slade, and on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group - including as the sometime-partner of David Garnett, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, and J.M Keynes. Bagenal is mentioned recurrently in Gertler's letters, and acknowledged by the Editor as a source of information for this book, this copy being sent to her by Richard Garnett at the publisher - as evinced by her inscription and the laid in letter from the same, on Hart-Davis headed-paper (rather spotted), expressing his shock that Noel Carrington had not sent a copy himself and arranging for the return of her photographs included in the book.Clipped reviews of this book, and a postcard to Bagenal (from 'Biddy', thanking her for 'Bloomsbury booties') are laid in. HIDE

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