Montague Summers: a Memoir.
London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 106pp. Red cloth gilt-lettered on spine, gilt-stamped caricature of Montague Summers on front board. B/w frontis. & 1 illustration. Bibliography & index. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. A short biographical study of Summers by Michael Seymour "Brocard" Sewell (1912–2000), the British Carmelite friar and author who edited and/or contritbuted to a number of works relating to Summers, including his autobiography, "The Galanty Show." From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ex-libris seal blind-stamped on the front free endpaper. Spine and upper edge of top board slightly faded, otherwise a tight clean near Fine copy. The book was issued in a plain glassine jacket which is not present with this copy. Item #55335
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