Lawrence and Brett, A Friendship

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xiv-[15]-301 pages with frontispiece and plates. Octavo (8 3/4" x5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth in blue lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. First edition. Dorothy Eugénie Brett was an American painter, remembered as much for her social life as for her art. Born into an aristocratic British family, she lived a sheltered early life. During her student years at the Slade School of Art, she associated with Dora Carrington, Barbara Hiles and the Bloomsbury group. Among the people she met was novelist D.H. Lawrence, and it was at his invitation that she moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1924. She remained there for the rest of her life, becoming an American citizen in 1938. Condition: Underlining throughout, previous owner's initials to front end paper. Jacket stained, chipped with loss to spine ends and corners, back hinge separated and taped on verso, fold over edges rubbed else about very good in a poor jacket. N° de ref. del artículo L1042

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