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[Rudolf Nureyev: personal reminiscences of John Phillips.] Privately printed collection of 'Nureyev Notes August 1966', regarding 'Sleeping Beauty' at La Scala, Milan. Inscribed by Phillips to Barbara Reed.

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John Phillips (1926-2017), flâneur and literary executor of Violet Trefusis (1894-1972; née Keppel), English socialite and author, lover of Vita Sackville-West [Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer]
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Privately printed. [Phuket, Thailand; 2009.] Inscription of February 2011.
£250.00

After a twelve-year 'amitié amoureuse' with Phillips, Violet Trefusis died in 1972, appointing him her literary executor and leaving him her last home, La Tour de Saint Loup. The present item – only one other copy of which has been traced – is from a collection of Phillips's papers amassed by his friend Barbara Reed, containing pamphlets privately printed by him between 2009 and 2014.

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[Printed book, inscribed by Mattiacci to the theatre designer Yolanda Sonnabend.] Eliseo Mattiacci. Catalogo della mostra a PradaMilanoArte (Milano, 5 maggio-13 giugno 1993).

Author: 
Eliseo Mattiacci (b.1940), Italian artist and sculptor [Giuliano Briganti, Bruno Cora, Gillo Dorfles; Prada, Milan; PradaMilanoArte; Yolanda Sonnabend (b.1935), theatre designer]
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Milano, Firenze [Milan, Florence]: Edizioni Charta. 1993.
£130.00

88pp., 8vo. Stylishly-designed art book by Giuliano Briganti, Bruno Cora and Gillo Dorfles, primarily in black and white, but with sections in half-tone blue and brown. In colour covers with flaps. Italian and English text. Inscribed on half titled 'A. Y SONNABEND. | Eliseo Mattiacci'. In good condition, in lightly-worn covers.

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