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Book Condition: Used Fine
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd

United States
About Item: London: Hogarth Press, 1948. Hardcover. Fine. Signed limited edition of Sansom's early novella about a man who wakes one morning to discover himself physically and psychologically aslant, illustrated with five superb full-page plates after drawings by Lucian Freud. Number 479 of 750 copies signed by Sansom on limitation page. 8vo: 45,[1]pp. Publisher's buckram-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gold, beveled edges, fore-edge uncut, title page printed in black and red. Ownership signature to front free end papers of New York figurative painter Sigmund Abeles, whose paintings are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney, among many other institutions. Initials "A. B." inked to rear paste-down. Without the scarce original glassine dust jacket. Embrowning to end papers, spine tips very lightly rubbed, else Fine. The great figurative artist Lucian Freud made numerous drawings throughout his twenties, before switching predominantly to oil painting. The… Read More
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