The Divine Gift babies nearly hallucinatory play of light

nearly hallucinatory play of light and color that makes brilliant use of the museum's famed rotunda and ocular skylight" - Roberta Smith

and presented in the original gilt-lettered

with contributions from Lawrence Ferlinghetti (a letter from City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco)

Contents fresh and unspotted

Foxing to endpapers and a small section torn away from front gutter

The Divine Gift babies nearly hallucinatory play of lightLondon: Longmans, Green, 1929. First edition of a novel widely thought to be written by Clive Bell, art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group who had married Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Stephen, in 1907. Publisher's black cloth with red lettering to upper board and spine, which is slightly faded. Unobtrusive previous owner signature to front pastedown, else clean and crisp copy of a scarce title. Christabel McLaren (1890 1974) married the