Item #64295 Existence. Austin Spare - 1886 - 1956. Austin Osman. Edited etc. by A. R. Naylor SPARE.
Existence. Austin Spare - 1886 - 1956.

Existence. Austin Spare - 1886 - 1956.

Thame: IHO, 2006, First Edition. Softcover. Large Quarto (12" x 9"), 96pp. Printed card covers in opaque, unprinted glassine "dust jacket". Colored Illustrations. A remarkable work. The book was created as a tribute to Spare, and copies were presented to each of 80 people who the editor and his advisors deemed to have made contributions to the increasing awareness of Spare's work. A list of those presentees appears in the preliminary pages. Beautifully produced, printed on permanent goatskin parchment paper, with numerous black and white and color reproductions of photographs and works by Spare, many of which have not been previously reproduced. Tipped in color frontis. Contents include a variety of short texts by Spare, an essay by Denis Bardens: 'No Man Shall Understand,' two poems about Spare by Victor Neuburg, 'The Theory of Re-currence' by Grace Rogers, Letters from Frank Letchford to Dennis Bardens (much biographical material on Spare), etc. etc. Approx. twenty-two color reproductions of works by Spare, and numerous monochromes, photographs, vignettes etc. In addition to the 80 presentation copies (each of which had the name of the presentee printed in red on the list at the front), there was a handful of surplus copies, which had all the names on the list printed in black. This is one of those copies. One small spot on the back panel of the glassine jacket - this does not penetrate the jacket and is probably a slight production defect, otherwise "As new", thus a tight, bright Fine copy. Item #64295
ISBN: 1872189547

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