signed first edition Softcover
1945 · New York
by GALLATIN, A.E. (Aubrey Beardsley)
New York: The Grolier Club, 1945. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Dark blue cloth. 141pp + plates. Fine in very good original blue printed wrappers with small chips and a split along the spine else very good. Reproduces seven drawings by Beardsley, five published for the first time, with a frontispiece of three previously unpublished portrait photographs of Beardsley by Frederick Hollyer. One of 300 copies. Ownership signature of Vincent Starrett. Laid in is a Typed Note Signed to Starrett dated 13 December 1945, inquiring whether the The Grolier Club had sent the book. Additionally laid in is a plate portrait of Beardsley (truncated)