1932, Green Outside by Elizabeth Godley, HB Viking Pr, 1st, ILLUS REX WHISTLER

Description: First published by Chatto & Windus in the UK in 1931, this is the First US Edition published by The Viking Press in 1932. Lacking dust jacket, but otherwise in VG condition. Clean green cloth boards with moderate corner and top/bottom spine wear, light edge ear, a bit of fading of green on the spine. No interior marks, very solidly bound 56 pages, lightly age-toned, with a color frontispiece illustration and several B&W illustrations by Rex Whistler. The frontispiece has a small tear starting on bottom edge about 1/2" up. This book is a whimsical collection of poetry by Elizabeth Godley illustrated by Rex Whistler. I can't find anything online about the author Elizabeth Godley. The illustrator is well known - here is a portion of the Wikipedia entry on Rex Whistler: eginald John "Rex" Whistler (24 June 1905 – 18 July 1944) was a British artist, who painted murals and society portraits, and designed theatrical costumes. He was killed in action in Normandy in World War II. Whistler was the brother of poet and artist Laurence Whistler. "Reginald John Whistler was born in England on 24 June 1905, in Eltham, Kent (now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich), the son of architect and estate agent Henry Whistler and Helen Frances Mary, the daughter of Rev. Charles Slegg Ward, vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, and through her mother a descendant of the goldsmith and silversmith Paul Storr.... ...His best known work during the early part of his career was for the former café at the Tate Gallery, completed in 1927 when he was only 22, but now viewed as problematic for stereotyped depictions of black and Chinese figures. He was commissioned to produce posters and illustrations for Shell Petroleum and the Radio Times. He also created designs for Wedgwood china based on drawings he made of the Devon village of Clovelly, and costumes "after Hogarth" for the premiere production of William Walton's ballet The Wise Virgins, produced by the Sadler's Wells Company in 1940." B80

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