Indigo Days

Julian Trevelyan.

MacGibbon & Kee London. 1957. First edition. Hardback, octavo; navy cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 192 pages. Hors-texte b&w plates. English. 205 x 135mm. 0.3kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, light ruffling to forecorners and spine ends, small area of loss and faint stain to base of spine, tape reinforcements to verso, not price-clipped; no inscriptions.

The memoir of English artist and printmaker Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988). Trevelyan recalls his time in Paris, in the war-time camouflage department, as a Surrealist and in his studio on the Thames. His writing is filled with a cast of artistic characters and its gossipy, irreverant tone makes an enjoyable read. With an attractive jacket design by the artist.