The Laughing Torso. Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett tibet A very well-conceived book

A very well-conceived book

Photographic frontispiece plus 15 b/w plates and sketches in the text

Zurich: Swiss National Museum

Scattered spots of foxing throughout

all edges coated in gold leaf

The Laughing Torso. Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett tibet A very well-conceived bookLondon: Constable, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. pp ix, 326. Photographic frontispiece plus 15 b w plates and sketches in the text. Publisher's black cloth with spine silvertone decoration to spine, slightly rubbed. Light spotting to endpapers and edge of text block. Tips of corners bumped. Not an easy book to find in first edition, hence Hildreth Press issued a new edition in 2007 to fill demand. "Nina Hamnett wrote these memoirs in 1932 when she was 42.