A. C. Landsberg — Tumult and Order

London, Elkin Mathews Ltd. Cork Street, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of Landsberg"s modernist poetry, inscribed by the author to Lady Ottoline Morrell, a leading patron of the Bloomsbury Group. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards.First edition. With a portrait frontispiece of the author after Pablo Picasso. Collated, complete. A scarce volume of modernist poetry by A. C. Landsberg, published in the years immediately following the First World War.Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper: "To Lady Ottoline Morrell in admiration and gratitude, 2nd April 1931." A desirable association with Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), the prominent aristocratic patron, memoirist, and central figure of the Bloomsbury Group who influenced and supported a wide circle of writers and artists, including T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Bertrand Russell, and D. H. Lawrence. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight rubbing to boards and spine label. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Author's inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first ad last few leaves. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Pablo Picasso. Very Good Indeed .