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Jerusalem Press, January 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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