Geoffrey Grigson; John Craxton (illustrated): 'The Poet's Ey...

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£130

Geoffrey Grigson; John Craxton (illustrated): 'The Poet's Eye, Visionary Poems and Passages', London, Frederick Muller Ltd, 1944, 1st edition, 16 full page colour lithograph plates and some black & white illustrations in text by John Craxton as called for, original pictorial cloth, ownership signature of John R.H. Yeoman to FFEP; together with Phoebe Pool; Michael Ayrton (illustrated): 'Poems of Death', L, Frederick Muller Ltd, 1945, 1st edition, 16 full page lithograph plates by Michael Ayrton as called for, these mainly in colour, original pictorial cloth, ownership signature of John R.H. Yeoman to front pastedown, lithograph pictorial dust wrapper by Ayrton (generally VGC, 10/6 net price intact); David Gascoyne; Graham Sutherland (illustrated): 'Poems 1937-1942', London, PL Editions/Nicholson & Watson, 1943, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by Gascoyne [to John Yeoman] on half title "Sincerely Yours, David Gascoyne. May 1967", title page + 5 full page plates by Graham Sutherland as called for (title page loose but present), original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards by Sutherland. 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” (3)