de Beaumont Rares
debeaumontrares@gmail.com
tap to cycle
Lady in the Dark; Iris Barry and the Art of Film
Robert Sitton
475pp.; 24.2 x 16.5 cm. Black paper covered boards printed in bronze down spine. White dust-jacket printed in bronze, green and black.
Published New York: Columbia University Press, 2014
Part of Contemporaries, II
From the library of A. David Moody
A biography of Iris Barry, one of the first intellectuals to perceive and promote film as an art-form. First edition, with numerous illustrations including portraits of Barry by Wyndham Lewis, with whom she had 2 children. Near fine, the occasional pencil jot in the margin by David Moody.