ALLEN, Jonathan (editor)

Lost Envoy. The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare

London, Strange Attractor Press, 2016.

Large octavo, 336 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour and full-page).

Quarter synthetic cloth and colour-decorated papered boards (lightly rubbed); a few annotations and emphases in pencil to half a dozen pages; an excellent copy.

'It's true that [Austin Osman] Spare's tarot deck has been lost to the world beyond The Magic Circle, within whose museum collection the cards had lain since 1944, and that almost all of his paintings have disappeared into private hands over the years' (from the foreword).

Item #141674

Price (AUD): $250.00
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