John Symonds: with drawings by James Boswell:

Conversations with Gerald. [Inscribed copy]

London: Duckworth, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. x, 211pp, with illustrations in the text. Yellow endpapers, inscribed at the front 'To Edward Marsh / in gratitude & affection / from John / 12th September 1974'. [so, not the Edward Marsh who died in 1953]. The Gerald of the title was Gerald Hamilton, who died in 1970, an outrageous character with an extraordinary range of friends and acquaintances, and the model for Isherwood's Mr Norris. Contents fresh and clean, in the original binding of blue cloth, firm and bright, with speckled with loss of pigment to silverfish, spine titled gilt. In the protected pictorial bright blue dust jacket, top edge slightly creased and scuffed. Very Good / vg. Item #19741020

Price: £45.00