H. S. Ede’s narrative biography on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, with a contemporary gift inscription from the author, signed Jim Ede, to D’Arcy Cresswell, New Zealand poet and writer. Two photographs, dated late 1930, show Ede and Cresswell together in the garden of Lady Ottoline Morrell’s home on Gower Street. Ede was learning the art of patronage and hosting from Morrell, while Cresswell had been invited on account of his latest memoir, A Poet’s Progress (1930). An artefact of their Bloomsbury connection. First edition, first impression. A very slight forward lean, spine lightly sunned, a couple of marks to the rear cover.