ID: 167
Edward Bawden: War Artist and his letters home 1940-45.
BAWDEN, Edward
Category: Art, Second World War
Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Scolar Press in association with the Imperial War Museum. 1989.
Description: Edited and with an introduction by Rurari McLean. First edition. 4to; original cloth boards, in illustrated dust jacket. Bawden was appointed one of the first Official War Artists of the Second World War. He was sent to join the British Army in France, was evacuated from Dunkirk and then sent to the Middle East, where he spent two years. His ship was torpedoed on his return to England and he spent two months in a French internment camp before being released, only to return to the Middle East, for much of the remainder of the War. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Price £30.00
