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Originalbroschur. Zustand: Sehr gut. 113 S. Einband leicht berieben. - This fascinating collection of 101 striking full-page plates captures 116 outstanding personalities, principal players in the artistic and creative ferment of the time. Included are: Peggy Ashcroft, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, G. K. Chesterton, Kenneth Clark, Wells Coates, Noel Coward, Edith Evans, Robert Flaherty, Michel Fokine, E. M. Forster, John Gielgud, Eric Gill, Graham Greene, John Günther, Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Kennington, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, Somerset Maugham, A. A. Milne, Bertrand Russell, Dorothy Sayers, George Bernard Shaw, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats and many others. ISBN 0486248925 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Coster, Howard (cover photo) (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 229-274. Features: Literary Gents - G.B. Shaw; Kenneth Grahame; Travellers and their tales; George Bernard Shaw as Music Critic; Books we have never read; Contemporary Foreign Writers - Grazia Deledda; E.M. Delafield as a Novelist; Aphra Behn; Commentary on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; New light on Coleridge; Mary Woolstonecraft; The Transports of Thomas Traherne; The Benighted States; A Tractarian of Economics; Romantic Paris; Drama on Dartmoor; Early Translations from the Russian (part II); and more. Bit of writing and faint ink stamp upon front cover. A sound vintage copy.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. This is a fine black and white photographic portrait of Labour MP Ernest Bevin by the noted photographer Howard Coster. Taken in 1942 when Bevin was serving as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government. The photograph is framed and glazed, and has been laid on card and then mounted. The frame measures 32 × 49cm, and the image is 23 × 30cm. The photograph has been signed by Ernest Bevin in black ink (just over his lapel), and also by Howard Coster. The image presents Ernest Bevin in a stark wartime mode, serious, thoughtful but determined. He shown in profile and lit from above. The only copy of this photograph I can locate is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Howard Coster (1885-1959) was a British photographer who became well-known for his striking portraits of men, and among his most well-known photographs are A A Milne, King George V, Eric Gill, and G K Chesterton. Ernest Bevin was a prominent British trade union leader and politician who played a significant role in shaping 20th-century British history. Born in 1881 as the last child to an already large family, Bevin faced hardships from a young age, becoming orphaned by eight and leaving school at eleven. His career began in labour as a drayman, but he quickly rose through the ranks of the Dockers' Union, showcasing his skills as an organizer and negotiator. Bevin was instrumental in merging multiple trade unions to form the Transport and General Workers' Union, which became the largest union in Great Britain. During the Second World War he served as Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition cabinet and drafted the Bevin Boys programme. Post-war, he was instrumental in European policy, including the creation of NATO and West Germany, and was a key figure in managing the Berlin Blockade. Condition: Both photograph and frame are in very good condition, with one small line of dust collected at the top of the mount (under the glass). The portrait is back in wood, and with a wire for hanging. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. W. J. Linton; Howard Coster (illustrator). A signed limited edition of this history of the Isle of Wight private press, moved to Coniston during World War Two. One of 500 limited edition copies, and no. 62 of 75 limited edition copies signed by the author and printer, in the original paper wraps. Signed by the author and printer to the limitations page. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 further plates. Collated complete. An account of John Beever, William Linton and the Yellowsands Press, the private press of Bembridge School which was evacuated to Coniston from the Isle of Wight during the Second World War. In the original paper wraps. Externally smart, with just some faint creasing to the front of the wrap and a little staining from the staples. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean with the odd spot throughout. Very Good. book.

Contemporary print from the original glass plate negative, signed by the photographer in white ink in the lower right-hand corner and bearing his studio stamp, "Howard Coster, Photographer of Men" on the verso. Approximately 11 x 9 ins. (28 x 23 cms.). A superb image in the photographer's inimitable style and in fine state Although Coster always advertised himself as a "Photographer of Men" he did occasionally portray women, though it can be said that his style and especially his lighting technique did not suit female portraits. However, it seems to have suited Susan Ertz, the Anglo-American novelist, better than some. Though little-remembered today, her work was very popular between the wars on both sides of the Atlantic. VAT is charged on orders for photographs from customers within the European Economic Community.

Contemporary print from the original glass plate negative, signed by the photographer in white ink in the lower left-hand corner and bearing his studio stamp, "Howard Coster, Photographer of Men" on the verso. Approximately 11 x 9 ins. (28 x 23 cms.). A superb image in the photographer's inimitable style and in fine state Born in 1899 in Swindon, Ralph Bates started working as a carpenter at the age of 16. One year later he enlisted and served in the Royal Flying Corps until the end of the First World War. In 1923 he went to Spain, where he worked as a mechanic, living first in the Pyrenees region, later on the Costa Brava. Spain was the backdrop to his first two novels, Sierra (1933) and Lean Men (1936). The next, The Olive Field (1936), is based on the events that led to the Spanish Civil War, in which Bates was an active participant. He became editor of Volunteer for Liberty, the magazine of the International Brigades. Sent on a mission by the Spanish government to the United States, he met his future wife, Eva Salzman. After the Republican defeat, he and his wife lived in Mexico, which inspired the novel Fields of Paradise (1940), eventually settling in New York, where he taught at N.Y.U. until his retirement in 1968. He returned to Spain after Franco's death and, shortly before his own in November 2000, at the age of 101, was honored in Berlin for his participation in the Spanish Civil War.VAT is charged on orders for photographs from customers within the European Economic Community.

Contemporary print from the original glass plate negative, signed by the photographer in black ink in the lower right-hand corner and bearing his studio stamp, "Howard Coster, Photographer of Men" on the verso. Approximately 11 x 9 ins. (28 x 23 cms.). A superb image in the photographer's inimitable style and, other than a slight indentation in the top left hand-corner, in fine state Frank Swinnerton was a prolific novelist and critic. In addition to serving variously as an editor and a drama critic he wrote over 30 novels. For half a century, Swinnerton's novels displayed the iconoclasm and sensuality of his modernist roots. They include Nocturne (1917), Harvest Comedy (1937), A Month in Gordon Square (1953), and Nor All Thy Tears (1972). He also wrote studies of Gissing (1912) and Stevenson (1914).VAT is charged on orders for photographs from customers within the European Economic Community.

Contemporary print from the original glass plate negative, signed by the photographer in black ink in the lower left-hand corner and bearing his studio stamp, "Howard Coster, Photographer of Men" on the verso. Approximately 11 x 9 ins. (28 x 23 cms.). A superb image in the photographer's inimitable style and in fine state James Laver was born in Liverpool and educated at the Liverpool Institute and New College Oxford. A distinguished art critic, he was Keeper in the Departments of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and of Paintings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, and wrote widely on art and costume.VAT is charged on orders for photographs from customers within the European Economic Community.

Contemporary print from the original glass plate negative, signed by the photographer in white ink in the lower left-hand corner and bearing his studio stamp, "Howard Coster, Photographer of Men" on the verso. Approximately 11 x 9 ins. (28 x 23 cms.). A superb image in the photographer's inimitable style and in fine state Between the wars Claude Houghton (full name Claude Houghton Oldfield) was a highly regarded writer of novels and short-stories with supernatural and metaphysical themes, such as I Am Jonathan Scrivener (1930), Julian Grant Loses His Way (1933), Three Fantastic Tales (1934) and his novelisation of Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back ([1935]). Sadly, by the time of his death in 1961 his reputation had dwindled away and subsequently his work has never received any serious critical attention.VAT is charged on orders for photographs from customers within the European Economic Community.

[English Theatre] NINE ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Eight 26 x 19cm; one 26 x 20cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. The eight photographs by Park are of a uniform size, with light handling only. The single slightly larger photography by Coster has tears and some loss to the top left corner and the bottom right corner. Very good. A selection of press photographs from a star-studded production of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' in 1935, directed by John Gielgud, and staring himself and Laurence Olivier interchangeably in the lead roles of Romeo and Mercutio. The photographs also show Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet, Edith Evans as the Nurse, Alec Guinness as the Apothecary, Glen Byam Shaw as Benvolio, and Harry Andrews as Tybalt.