A Collector of Characters: Reminiscences of Theodore Spicer-Simson
Miami: University of Miami Press, 1962. Hardcover. 11" x 8.5" Very Good / Fair. Item #004083
SIGNED. Tipped-in signature to title page. Oblong. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. xiii, 197 p.p. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. Rear board slightly bowed. Spine slightly tilted. Foxing to edges of text block, endpapers, and interior. Foxing to edges of text block, endpapers, and interior. Dust jacket has a few short and longer tears to edges, damp staining, light wear to extremities, large chip to spine head and a few smaller chips, long tear to edge of rear flap. Theodore Spicer-Simson was a sculptor-artist of great versatility, an Englishman who worked in Paris, London and the United States, whose chief interest, as an artist, was human character. For more than 50 years, distinguished men and women of many countries sat for him for their portraits, in marble and in bronze, including Robert Frost, Theoddore Dreiser, Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, James Joyce, and many more.
Price (CAD): $150.00