"The New Keepsake" 1931

"The New Keepsake" 1931[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

[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