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Alfred Wallis, Primitive. by WALLIS, Alfred. BERLIN, Sven - 1949

by WALLIS, Alfred. BERLIN, Sven

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Alfred Wallis, Primitive.

by WALLIS, Alfred. BERLIN, Sven

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Poetry London/Nicholson & Watson, London., 1949. First edition. Small quarto. 122 pages. Numerous black and white reproductions etc, some full-page, as well as eleven colour plates. The first substantial book on Wallis. Covers curiously spotted with white (like stars in the night sky), as is so often the case with this title. Spine just a little bumped at head and tail. Very good in good, chipped and torn dustwrapper.
  • Bookseller Peter Ellis bookseller GB (GB)
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  • Publisher Poetry London/Nicholson & Watson, London.
  • Date Published 1949

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Alfred Wallis: Primitive.

by ALFRED WALLIS. Sven Berlin

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Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 122pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With fifty-six photographs and reproductions on glossy paperstock, twelve of them in colour. Includes W.S.Graham's poem 'The Voyages of Alfred Wallis', reproduced from the pages of the periodical 'Life and Letters'. A touch of light marking to the cloth. Very good indeed in somewhat chafed and chipped price-clipped dust wrapper, with two noticeable area of triangular loss from the upper edge of the rear panel, and several further much small areas of edge-loss. Berlin's celebrated study of the naïve Cornish painter; completed shortly after Wallis' death in 1942, publication was delayed by the Second World War, the book finally appearing nearly five years after it was originally typeset..
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