Art, Psychoanalysis, And Adrian Stokes: A Biography (FINE COPY OF SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JANET SAYERS) by Sayers, Janet - 2015

London: Karnac, 2015. Fine. First Edition, First Printing. No d/w, (as published); glazed pictorial cover. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JANET SAYERS, on title-page. Inscription reads, '--- and -----/with best/wishes/from Janet (Sayers)/October 2015'. Profusely illustrated with 106 illustrations. A well-researched and authoritative biography of Adrian Stokes (1902-1972), who was a British writer, painter and art critic. He inspired poems by Auden, who was a little in love with him, went to the movies with Years, holidayed with Aldous Huxley, played tennis with Ezra Pound, lunched with Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron, travelled with the Sitwells, was published by T S Eliot at Faber, and co-founded the St Ives artistic community - his own paintings are in the Tate. With Notes And Index. TOGETHER WITH SINGLE SHEET PROMOTIONAL AUTHOR TALK BY JANET SAYERS. A fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Fine.