Modigliani: A Memoir (Andre Salmon) soon to be presented for sale on the outstanding BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1961, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Portrait to the frontispiece; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: Amedeo, dear Amedeo: you are so handsome that all the women fight over you I believe in your future. So said the poet, Max Jacob, to the ardent and turbulent young Italian artist, Modigliani.
Poet and sculptor, a painter of genius, but tormented and accursed; tubercular from childhood; a victim of alcohol; undermined by lack of food, by the need for the most elementary comforts, by his outbursts of animal fury and hours of cruel intr…
Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavier age-toning to the spine and verso. Price Clipped. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. The pages are somewhat tanned, if tight, and a little musty.
Illustrated Green boards with Yellow titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 216 pages. 8¾” x 6″.
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