[Signed] Original Bip Pares Dust Jacket Art for the Novel Give Me To-Morrow PARES, Bip (artist) [for] Shirley DARBYSHIRE [Very Good] [Hardcover]

Description

Original Bip Pares gouache and watercolor painting for the 1937 dust jacket to Give Me To-Morrow by Shirley Darbyshire. Artboard measures 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Painted in fuchsia and aqua, the striking art-deco design features a classical bust of a woman on cardstock that was mounted on the artboard for a relief-effect. A pencil notation at top provides production details (""combination line & hone [?] (120 screen for printing)). Signed by Pares at bottom right of image. On verso, a typed note affixed by tape asking the artwork to be returned to publisher Nicholson & Watson, with their Paternoster Row address. Slight smudges and soiling, with artboard slightly degraded along left margin. A fine example of consummate art-deco design by dust jacket illustrator Bip Pares. Born Ethel Pares, 1904, her juxtaposition of pink with green-blue seems a signature hallmark of her talent to maximize effect within the stricture of a budget-conscious two-color printing scheme.As for Shirley Darbyshire, this title is one of the more elusive in her body of work, with eight institutional holdings recognized by OCLC. Her novels, involving reversals of fortune, set among the English aristocracy in London and the country, were favorably reviewed. Given the half-mast bedroom eyes of Bip Pares's dust jacket portrait, one would be enticed to open Give Me To-Morrow. .