"The New Keepsake" 1931
$650
[147] pp.
Cobden-Sanderson
1931
8 5/8" x 6"
Decorated by Rex Whistler
A volume of poetry and prose by key writers of the 1930s, with cover designs and illustrations by Rex Whistler. Contributors include Harold Nicolson, Clive Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy Wellesley, Aldous Huxley, Rose Macaulay, W.B. Yeats and many more. The jacket reads 'A Christmas, New Year & Birthday Present for Persons of both Sexes' and this book would still make a perfect gift nearly one hundred years on.
Contributions by Harold Nicolson, Clive Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy Wellesley, Aldous Huxley, Rose Macaulay et al. Decorated by Rex Whistler. Cobden-Sanderson. London. 1931. First edition. Hardback, octavo; white boards with pink and black cover decoration by Whistler, dust jacket with design by Whistler, pink top edge. (x), 147 pages. Presentation page and 24 head-pieces by Whistler. English. 220 x 150mm. 0.4kg. . Very good, in good dust jacket; shelf wear to jacket, wear to forecorners and spine ends with slight loss, 2cm loss at base of spine, some spotting and toning to jacket, not price-clipped; very slight spotting to fore-edge, The Book Society ex libris and bookseller's label to front pastedown, presentation page completed by previous owner. [Whistler, Laurence & Ronald Fuller, 'The Work of Rex Whistler', 1960, no. 435