Two Flamboyant Fathers: A colorful portrait of a vanished bohemian world – rare and collectible book from Deb’s Rare Books
Two Flamboyant Fathers: A colorful portrait of a vanished bohemian world – rare and collectible book from Deb’s Rare Books
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Two Flamboyant Fathers: A colorful portrait of a vanished bohemian world – rare and collectible book from Deb’s Rare BooksTwo Flamboyant Fathers: A colorful portrait of a vanished bohemian world – rare and collectible book from Deb’s Rare Books

Two Flamboyant Fathers: A colorful portrait of a vanished bohemian world

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Author Nicolette Devas

Publisher Morrow; 1st U.S. edition. (January 1, 1967)

Binding hardcover with dustjacket

Conditionvry good plus with the dustjacket protected with Brodart Archival Covering

Summary

Nicolette Devas’ Two Flamboyant Fathers is a vivid, intimate memoir of life within the bohemian art circles of early 20th-century England. As the daughter of Arthur Rackham and stepdaughter of Augustus John, Devas offers a rare, firsthand portrait of two brilliantly unconventional artists and the creative world that shaped them. Her recollections illuminate a vanished era filled with extraordinary personalities, restless artistic ambition, and emotional complexity.

Appearing throughout the memoir are influential figures such as Gwen John, Dora Carrington, Jacob Epstein, and Dylan Thomas, whose presence adds literary and artistic depth to the narrative. Devas captures the humor, chaos, and brilliance of a life lived among painters, poets, and eccentrics, making this a compelling read for admirers of British art, the Bloomsbury-adjacent world, and modernist bohemia.

This 1967 U.S. first edition is in very good+ condition, with a bright, intact dust jacket now protected in Brodart archival covering. Light edge wear to the jacket as expected for a book of this age. A strong, collectible copy of an engaging and increasingly hard-to-find memoir of the bohemian artistic life.

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