Both : A Portrait in Two Parts by Douglas Crase

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Cloth, 303 pp., illus., biblio., index; 20 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Both is the enchanting account of a remarkable fifty-year relationship: Dwight Ripley, the child heir to an American railroad fortune, and Rupert Barneby, the product of a wealthy, baronial English upbringing, shared an obsession with botany from the moment they met at an exclusive boys' boarding school in England. Together they embarked on a lifelong pursuit of rare plants, first in Europe and then in the United States, where they migrated in the late 1930s. Every spring they explored the American Southwest in a sputtering Dodge, discovering new species and cultivating the spoils at their renowned home gardens. Barneby published so many taxonomic findings that he became a world authority on legumes. But the two men had other interests as well: they were intimates in the expatriate circles that included W. H. Auden and Peggy Guggenheim, and early collectors of painters such as Jackson P

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New York, New York, U.S.A. 2004 Hb First Edition Very Good in Very Good jacket Smaller 8vo. pp. 303, b/w photographs, "This elegantly written story of the partnered lives of botanist Rupert Barneby and aesthete Dwight Ripley is steeped in enjoyable anecdotal detail. P? et and critic Crase (nominated for an NBCC award for The Revisionist) draws on his own long friendship with Barneby to evoke Barneby and Ripley's luminous social circle, which included Peggy Guggenheim, W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Clement Greenburg, and Cyril and Jean Connolly. Crase languidly traces the chic pair's relationship from boyhood romance at English public school in the 1920s to joint botanical adventures in the 1940s American West and their eventual settled expatriate life in New York's intellectual, artistic and gay communities. Affairs and friendships are described without sensationalism, and Crase approaches both men respectfully, as having complex sensibilities. He includes excerpts from their exquisite prose on plants,

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