[Signed] [First Edition] THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (WITH...

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 312. Long inscription on the half-title page to the suffolk artist and architect C.H. Lay and his wife Joan. BOOK: autobiographical account of influential people: HG Wells, Stanley Baldwin, Rupert Brooke, Paul Nash, Bernard Shaw, GK Chesterton, Maynard Keynes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Aliester Crowley, Osbert Sitwell, Compton McKenzie. Original publishers cloth binding in dark red, lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in red, lettered black with a striking portrait black-and-white photograph of the author. Black and white photographs, drawings and illustrations illustrate the text. Endpapers show a fascinating 'Family tree' of "First Encounters and Acquaintanceships" Very good in minus very good dust jacket. Dust jacket torn and chipped but protected by a clear sleeve.

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