Is She A Lady? A Problem in Autobiography

[Nina Hamnett]

The scarce second volume of memoirs from artist Nina Hamnett, following on from Laughing Torso published in 1933. Hamnett's witty anecdotes and recollections recall the bohemian world of London and Paris during the late 1920s and early 1930s. 'This was a world of pubs and clubs and parties, of painters, patrons, poets, boxers and tarts, of champagne drunk with the rich, quiet visits to the pawnshop and studio free-for-alls'. Hamnett's life was anything but dull.



Nina Hamnett. Allan Wingate. London. 1955. First edition. Hardback, octavo; blue cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 161 pages. Frontispiece and hors texte black-and-white plates. English. 220 x 145mm. 0.4kg. . Very good, in good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, light ruffling to forecorners and head of spine, small chip to top edge of rear panel, price-clipped; slight speckling to top edge, some browning to prelims; from the library of Barry Humphries with his ex libris plate to front pastedown.