Stephen. My Brother Aquarius.

by TENNANT

£375 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

‘Did You Ever See a Starry Man | With So Beautiful a Face?’ TENNANT, Stephen. My Brother Aquarius. Bournemouth: Nash Publications . 1961 [ with :] HOARE, Philip. Serious Pleasures. The Life of Stephen Tennant. London: Hamish Hamilton . 1990. Tennant : 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, lacking the dust-jacket; pp. [x], 62; full colour frontispiece by the author (the same image graces the missing wrapper); cloth rubbed to extremities with a few small marks, marginal marks to a few pages; else a very good copy; front free endpaper inscribed ‘For Rupert Lord, with kindest thoughts and best wishes from the author Stephen Tennant’ in blue ink ( see below ). Hoare: 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust-jacket designed by the Senate, priced £20.00 net to the front flap; pp. xvi; 463, [1]; minimal pushing to lower spine tip, else a fine copy in near-fine jacket. Stephen Tennant’s sole volume of poetry; an intimate self-portrait of the brightest of the Bright Young Things; with a fine first printing of Philip Hoare’s landmark Tennant biography. Few figures better capture the glamour, eccentricity, and aesthetic sensibility of interwar England than Stephen Tennant (1906–1987). The brightest and most glamorous of the Bright Young Things, he moved among an extraordinary constellation of writers, artists, and socialites, counting among his friends and admirers Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and Trum

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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