Item #47527 Adventures with Inspiration. Hannen SWAFFER, Austin Osman Spare: related work.

Adventures with Inspiration.

London: Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Junior, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 40pp. Red cloth lettered in black on spine. The author was a journalist with a strong interest in spiritualism and mystical states. He befriended Austin Osman Spare, and became a supporter and champion of Spare's work. In this volume Swaffer discusses Spare, his work, and his attitude towards inspiration in a section that takes up the best part of some four pages, and includes substantial quotes from an interview he conducted with the artist. Spine faded, front board unevenly discolored, page-edges age-toned, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, front free endpaper slightly discolored. Else a solid, clean VG copy (no dust jacket) of a book that is surprisingly hard-to-find in First Edition. Item #47527

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