Alan Ross & John Minton: 'Time was away. A Notebook in Corsi...

Hammer

£440

Alan Ross & John Minton: 'Time was away. A Notebook in Corsica', London, John Lehmann, 1948, 1st edition, 1st issue, black & white map frontispiece + 8 colour lithographed plates + over 50 other full page and in text black & white illustrations by John Minton as called for, original yellow cloth, the first issue stamped in green and gilt on the spine (v. light wear, else generally cloth VGC), wraparound pictorial dustwrapper by John Minton (worn with some part losses and internal repairs, some surface rubbing in places). A scarce first issue copy of Alan Ross and John Minton's classic artistic collaboration and ode to the island of Corsica