ISBN10: 1907222014, ISBN13: 9781907222016, [publisher: Strange Attractor] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]
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ISBN10: 1907222014, ISBN13: 9781907222016, [publisher: Strange Attractor] Hardcover First Edition Book is in near fine condition. 323pp with b/w and colour photographs.
[Birmingham, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]

ISBN10: 1907222014, ISBN13: 9781907222016, [publisher: Strange Attractor,, London,] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xi, 323. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. This biography charts the rise and fall and rise again of British art's darkest star. Limited edition of 200 copies, this being no. 67, with tipped in black and white photograph of Austin Osman Spare, blind stamped (with the letters 'A.O.S') and signed on the title page by Phil Baker. ISBN: 9781907222016 Fine in fine dust jacket.
[Wickham Market, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 1907222014, ISBN13: 9781907222016, [publisher: Strange Attractor] Hardcover First Edition NEW UK HARDBACK. SIGNED by PHIL BAKER on TP [NO Inscription]. DJ in Clear, ARCHIVAL MYLAR WRAP. Well-researched with finely produced color illustrations. Includes Bound-In Book Ribbon & matching bookmark. "London has harboured many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956). A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world, the young Spare was hailed as a genius and a new Aubrey Beardsley, while George Bernard Shaw reportedly said "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man." But Spare was never made for worldly success and he went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity south of the river. Absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions and surrounding himself with cats and familiar spirits, he continued to produce extraordinary art while developing a magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. Today Spare is both forgotten and famous, a cult figure whose modest life has been much mythologised since his death. This groundbreaking biographical study offers wide-ranging insights into Spare's art, mind and world, reconnecting him with the art history that ignored him and exploring his parallel London; a bygone place of pub pianists, wealthy alchemists and monstrous owls. ...

ISBN10: 1907222014, ISBN13: 9781907222016, [publisher: Strange Attractor] Hardcover Almost like new. Dust jacket has very slight shelf wear. Book itself is like new. Limited edition numbered 90/200. Signed by author.
[San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]
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ISBN10: 1907222014, ISBN13: 9781907222016, [publisher: Strange Attractor] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]