Barbara Hepworth: A memoir by Margaret Gardiner - 1982

Salamander Press, 1982. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 63pp. A vivid and personal account of the early years of Barbara Hepworth's life by her closest friend including the involvement of Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Herbert Read and many others and her many political passions. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.

This copy with gift inscription 'For Ann and Jan with love from Margaret June 1982' on half title page. Margaret Gardiner describes her first meeting with Barbara Hepworth in her Memoir, a vivid and personal account of the early days of their friendship in Hampstead in the 1930s, when Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Herbert Read all lived and worked in adjoining studios. 63 p. : ill., facsim., ports. ; 21 cm. Dust jacket over card wrapper. Slight shelf wear to edges, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.