£200
Joanna Field [i.e. Marion Milner]: 'A Life of One's Own', London, Chatto & Windus, 1934, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to FFEP "for John Yeoman from Marion Milner November 1969", with an earlier inscription by Milner also on FFEP "D.B.R. with love from the author November 1934" (this neatly crossed out by author), original cloth, dust wrapper. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton”