Striking head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Frank Swinnerton by Howard Coster

Coster (Howard).     c.1935-1936      Contemporary print from the original glass plate negative, signed by the photographer in black ink in the lower right-hand corner and bearing his studio stamp, “Howard Coster, Photographer of Men” on the verso. Approximately 11 x 9 ins. (28 x 23 cms.). A superb image in the photographer’s inimitable style and, other than a slight indentation in the top left hand-corner, in fine state  Frank Swinnerton was a prolific novelist and critic. In addition to serving variously as an editor and a drama critic he wrote over 30 novels. For half a century, Swinnerton's novels displayed the iconoclasm and sensuality of his modernist roots. They include Nocturne (1917), Harvest Comedy (1937), A Month in Gordon Square (1953), and Nor All Thy Tears (1972). He also wrote studies of Gissing (1912) and Stevenson (1914).VAT is charged on orders for photographs from customers within the European Economic Community. 

Price: £120