A Terrible Day,

Garnett (David)

A Terrible Day,

with a Frontispiece by Duncan Grant and a Foreword by H.E. Bates [Furnival Books, No.9.]

Description: 193/500 COPIES (from an edition of 550 copies) signed by the author, tipped-in slip to title-page updating publisher information, pp. 37, 8vo, original tan buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, mottled browning overall, gentle rubbing at extremities, t.e.g, others untrimmed, faintest of spotting to free endpaapers, the flyleaf with the ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (see below), recording it as the gift of 'R.S.' [i.e., Roger Senhouse], good

Publication Details: Joiner & Steele (replacing William Jackson, see below), 1932

Notes: The copy of the author's friend (a romantic liaison is also recorded), artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles) - who entered the Bloomsbury Group alongside Carrington, with whom she was at the Slade. The ex dono inscription records it as the gift of fellow Bloomsbury Group member, Roger Senhouse - whose acquaintance with Bagenal likely based on their mutual friendship with Lytton Strachey.

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