Stanley Spencer: A Biography by Collis, Maurice - 1962

Harvill Press, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white plates. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear, with some light tanning and foxing to edges. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing.

London. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Tight clean book in quarter green cloth and dust jacket with tears to top edge; unmarked but for "withdrawn" stamp (donation) to front endpaper. .

Harvill Press, 1962. Hbk, 255pp, lacks dj, very good quarter cloth over buckram with gilt spine titles, illustr in b+w with pictorial endpapers, internally a very good, clean, tight and unmarked text

London: Harvil Press, 1962. 1st edition, 2nd impression, 255pp, illus. throughout, octavo, orig. cloth. A contemporary biography by a friend.. Hardback. V.g./V.g.. 8vo.

London: Harvill Press, 1962. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. At Spencer's death, he left a huge volume of almost unintelligible correspondence and autobiographical writings, which Maurice Collis has painstakingly deciphered and transformed into a very moving biography. Driven by personal visions and obsessions, Spencer could be nevertheless a charming and beloved figure, who created some of the strangest and finest paintings of his time.

London: Harvill Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. With jacket. 255 pp. B/w plates. No inscriptions. VG / VG

London, England: Harvill Press, 1962. First U.K. Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255pp w appendix and index. Twenty-six indexed, unpaginated plates including frontis. Khaki cloth, aquamarine cloth quarterwrap spine w gold lettering. No wear to covers or spine, very small bumping to top corners. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean, showing very light handling, preserved now in archival cover. Octavo.

London : Harvill Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 255 p. illus., maps, ports. 23 cm. Subject; Spencer, Stanley Sir 1891-1959.

London: Harvill Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Stanley Spencer Color Plates. Original blue cloth spine and grey cloth boards, with tipped-in color plates. Small V chip to bottom outside corner of jacket protected by the Brodart cover, else a fine, unclipped and unmarked copy. Uncommon.

London: Harvill Press, 1962. 255 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plates. 21 additional illustrations and 3 line drawings in text. Pages good condition, clean. Endpapers illustrated with letter facsimiles. Quarter bound green cloth with gilt title on spine. Light green cloth boards. Edges and corner lightly worn. Grey and white DJ illustrated in color on upper cover. Edges lightly worn. DJ not price clpped. VG/VG. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover.