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ALBANI**, LOUISA AMELIA: : MEDITATIONS on VANESSA BELL, DUNCAN GRANT & CHARLESTON. [Author SIGNED copy. **]

UK.Night Bird Press,N2.01/08/2024.

ISBN 9781739326821.

UK,slim,small 8vo stapled wraps,illustrated, author SIGNED, 1st edn. [Edited,designed & illustrated by Louisa Amelia Albani at her private press.Published to celebrate 10 years of the private press,Night Bird Press.] No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,neat black ink signature - without dedication - to bottom edge of first page and signed in my presence.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,wrap-around matt white background with colour illustration of head portraits of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant with capitalised light brown lettered title and a red circular adhesive label with white-lettered Signed Copy legend within it at illustration's spine/backstrip's front-facing edge.Spine/backstrip with non-rusted,bright shining staples,rear cover with a small round colour illustration,and black-lettered prose quotation by Mark Hussey.Negligible shelf-wear, if any,to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean,without ageing/toning or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread other than my collation. UK,slim,small 8vo stapled wraps,illustrated, author SIGNED,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated excludes illustrated covers - inside and outside] but includes publisher's thumbnail b/w colophon illustrated title page with other black-lettered publishing details and contributors' credits: the artist,Maggie Humm with an article about Charleston,Dominic Blake with an article entitled 'On Life,Art and Morality' and photography by Rachel Poulton; 6 double - one double a monochrome panoramic landscape photograph 'Looking east from Mount Caburn' by Rachel Poulton,4 single and other part-page full-colour illustrations all by Louisa Amelia Albani; plus a colour illustrated a genealogical style chart of Bloomsbury Group-related individuals mentioned in this pamphlet,to inside of front cover and a part-page colour illustration of pulpit panels at Berwick Church to inside of rear cover.These panels were part of the murals project undertaken by Duncan Grant,Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell during the Second World War.The original panel designs were by Vanessa Bell and were vandalised in 1962,then repainted after her death by Duncan Grant to designs by their daughter Angelica,to inside of rear cover,accompanying text block and to verso of last page,a Bibliography,References and photographer credit with their potted biography.  Visually the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional,superb condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's nature, i.e. ephemeral pamphlet/book.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightness,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults usually encountered in a book of comparable production.Many of these ealier pamphlets are unavailable and out-of-print, particularly limited proportion of SIGNED copies.See also my books' IDs' rja1192824 and rja1192924 for Woolf-related similar pamphlets by Louisa Amelia Albani - 'The Sea Blazed Gold': VIRGINIA WOOLF In St Ives,Cornwall.' and 'The Journey to my Sister's House: VIRGINIA WOOLF on the South Downs.' respectively,for her SIGNED, 1st edn copies. Louisa Albani is an artist,editor and small press publisher of pamphlets.Louisa Albani's beautifully illustrated pamphlets are inspired by literary figures from William Blake to Virginia Woolf.                                  This pamphlet weaves together Vanessa and Duncan's daughter Angelica Garnett's memories of her own experience of Charleston,with art and words inspired by their extraordinarily creative lives.                                            Please contact the seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item - particularly ALL overseas buyers - for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order,especially if ordering any multiples. N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can now,in some cases, cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **                                                                                              

UK,slim,small 8vo stapled wraps,illustrated,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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