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CONNOLLY, Cyril & Cecil BEATON]. Sarah. By Her Friends and For Them … In memoriam Sarah Venetia d’ Avigdor-Goldsmid. Born 15 th April 1942. Drowned at Sea 18 th September 1963 . [Cambridge:] “Privately Printed” [Rampant Lions Press], 1965. 4°. Title printed in green and black, 7 monochrome photographed portraits of Sarah, all but 2 by Cecil Beaton. Contemporary full grey morocco. Provenance : Anthony Hobson (label). ONE OF 300 COPIES. CECIL BEATON’S COPY, IN THE DE-LUXE BINDING . Loosely inserted is an autograph note from Harry & Rosemary d’ Avigdor Goldsmid, stating, “To dear Cecil, who has contributed so much to this book & to whom we are everlastingly grateful. With love.” Cyril Connolly’s contribution, which opens this moving collection of tributes, is titled ‘Lissadell’. With 7 other books edited, translated or with contributions by Cyril Connolly, namely Horizon Stories (London, 1943, cloth), Vercors’ Put out the Light. A Translation by Cyril Connolly (London, 1944, cloth, dust-jacket), The Golden Horizon (London, 1953, cloth, dust-jacket), Les Pavillons (New York, 1962, cloth, dust-jacket), Bill Brandt’s Shadow of Light. Introduction by Cyril Connolly (London, [1966], boards, dust-jacket) and Cyril Connolly’s One Hundred Modern Books (Austin, 1971, 2 copies, one bound in cloth, the other in wrappers), all SIGNED OR INSCRIBED by Cyril Connolly to Anthony Hobson sometimes extensively.
CONNOLLY, Cyril & Cecil BEATON]. Sarah. By Her Friends and For Them … In memoriam Sarah Venetia d’ Avigdor-Goldsmid. Born 15 th April 1942. Drowned at Sea 18 th September 1963 . [Cambridge:] “Privately Printed” [Rampant Lions Press], 1965. 4°. Title printed in green and black, 7 monochrome photographed portraits of Sarah, all but 2 by Cecil Beaton. Contemporary full grey morocco. Provenance : Anthony Hobson (label). ONE OF 300 COPIES. CECIL BEATON’S COPY, IN THE DE-LUXE BINDING . Loosely inserted is an autograph note from Harry & Rosemary d’ Avigdor Goldsmid, stating, “To dear Cecil, who has contributed so much to this book & to whom we are everlastingly grateful. With love.” Cyril Connolly’s contribution, which opens this moving collection of tributes, is titled ‘Lissadell’. With 7 other books edited, translated or with contributions by Cyril Connolly, namely Horizon Stories (London, 1943, cloth), Vercors’ Put out the Light. A Translation by Cyril Connolly (London, 1944, cloth, dust-jacket), The Golden Horizon (London, 1953, cloth, dust-jacket), Les Pavillons (New York, 1962, cloth, dust-jacket), Bill Brandt’s Shadow of Light. Introduction by Cyril Connolly (London, [1966], boards, dust-jacket) and Cyril Connolly’s One Hundred Modern Books (Austin, 1971, 2 copies, one bound in cloth, the other in wrappers), all SIGNED OR INSCRIBED by Cyril Connolly to Anthony Hobson sometimes extensively.