Edward James: Swans Reflecting Elephants: My Early Years (1982)

These recollections by one of the great British eccentrics of this century present a remarkable but tragic picture of a period and of a man, for under the book’s sparkling surface swim dark waters peopled by monsters. It was no gentle current that swept Edward James, one of the world’s richest men and most important art collectors, from rural Sussex to a clearing in the jungle of central Mexico. Condition: spotting to front endpaper.