Great Friends.

Garnett (David)

Great Friends.

Portraits of seventeen writers.

Description: FIRST EDITION, illustrations being portraits of those discussed (many photographic), a few faint spots to prelims and to Index pages at rear, pp. 240, royal 8vo, original brown cloth-effect boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few tiny spots to edges, a couple of clipped reviews loosely inserted, dustjacket, very good

Publication Details: Macmillan, 1979

Notes: With the contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), recording it as the gift of the author's son, Richard Garnett. Bagenal was an artist, friend of 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 a few times in the section on Lytton Strachey, and the photograph of him reading Gibbon to Carrington is credited to her.Laid in is her transcription of an H.S. Fritsch poem on age....moreWith the contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), recording it as the gift of the author's son, Richard Garnett. Bagenal was an artist, friend of 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 a few times in the section on Lytton Strachey, and the photograph of him reading Gibbon to Carrington is credited to her.Laid in is her transcription of an H.S. Fritsch poem on age. HIDE

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