Author: MACKENZIE COMPTON ASSOCIATION COPY LEO BENSEMANN AND LAWRENCE BAIGENT
Title: Sinister Street ( Leo Bensemann Bookplate )
Description: London, Secker. 1930, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Leo Bensemann. blue cloth, rubbed joints, minor ink mark to closed bottom edge, soiled spine, paste down has a tidy BOOK PLATE by Leo Bensemann (unattributed but cataloged as "LEO BENSEMANN A Weird Bookplate c. 1932-33 drawing, 70 x 53 mm, Collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library" and is viewable on the Art New Zealand website at w w w.art-newzealand.com/Issues21to30/leob.htm ) fep has ink inscription 'Lawrence Baigent May 1930' with "When we were very young!" in pencil underneath, Baigent was a friend and the literary executor of the New Zealand poetess Mary Ursula Bethell, the book itself= Complete Edition 1930 first reprint, xii 1132 +6pp adverts on rice or 'bible' paper. Good/No Jacket. association copy.

Keywords: Leo Bensemann New Zealand Graphic Art Bookplate Book Plate Design Designer Lawrence Baigent Mary Ursula Bethell Rare Collectable Association Copy New Zealand Literature Poetry Leo Bensemann


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