The Laughing Torso. Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett tibet Photographic frontispiece plus 15 b/w

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

all edges coated in gold leaf

including additional titlepage

first impression

mainly to the middle section

The Laughing Torso. Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett tibet Photographic frontispiece plus 15 b/wLondon: 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.