first edition Hardcover
1955 · New York
by Derwood, Gene
New York: Clarke & Way, 1955. Hardcover. 80p., frontis-portrait of Derwood, unopened pages, very good first edition in blue cloth boards and gilt, price-clipped edgeworn dj. Derwood was a portrait artist who did over 150 oils many of which are portraits of poets and artists including Auden, Max Ernst and Yban Goll. Married to poet Oscar Williams. Posthumous collection. (Inventory #: 203544)