The Ossie Clark Diaries

Ossie Clark. Edited and Introduced by Lady Henrietta Rous.

Bloomsbury. London. 1998. First edition, first printing. Hardback; black cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 402 pages. 32 hors texte colour plates and several b&w text illustrations. English. 245 x 160mm. 1kg. 9780747539018. Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear, slight fading to spine, not price-clipped; light browning to pages as usual; front endpaper slightly short due to printer's error.

The exuberant and uninhibited diaries of London's famous sixties fashion designer. Clark's diaries are full of conversations, thoughts and ideas, and comments on those celebrities and artists he came into contact with during his bohemian life. Friends such as Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, David Hockney, Twiggy, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Patrick Procktor all feature, as well as his wife Celia Birtwell.