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London: Jerusalem Press, 2013. Limited to 500 premium cloth copies. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine illustrated dust jacket, featuring a self portrait of Spare. The afterword by Stephen Pochin charts the constellation of artists, who Spare befriended from the end of WWI until his death, many of whom he included in his role as the art editor of "Form" and "The Golden Hind". This memoir includes character portraits of Ellen Victoria Spare, Walter E. Spradbery, Boris Anrep, L.S. Lowry, Haydn Reynolds Mackey, Siegfried Moos and Lotte Moos, and offers a previously unpublished self-portrait by Spare, together with two additional late pastel self-portraits, and a series of unpublished "Boro' Satyr" studies. Edited by Stephen Pochin. 170 pages. Tall Octavo.

London: Jerusalem Press, 2013. First edition. Hardbound in fine condition in very good dust jacket.. Standard edition, limited to 900 numbered copies; 171 pages.

London: Jerusalem Press Limited, 2013. New in new jacket (very fine) in archival mylar./New. Small folio in dark color illus jacket; 71 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm ; bibliographical references and index. Hand-numbered exemplar 317 of 900 total. "An invaluable memoir by one of the few remaining people still alive that knew Austin Osman Spare. The author is an artist who as a teenager was nurtured and taken to life-classes by Spare and his sister Nellie. Gary is blind, but the memories are sharp and evocative. Spare, it transpires, set Gary upon his varied career in Art & Design. As a corrective to a mythologising tendency, as he sees it, Gary paints a much needed 'tactile picture' of Austin Osman Spare, as someone who is more than the 'Occult artist' that many readers will be familiar with. Here we are introduced to the selfless 'humanist', a generous soul encouraging raw talent without any concern for personal gain. Spare is revealed as a life-long instructor on art,… Read More