OUT OF MY MIND by Jack Bilbo, 1st/1st 1946 HC/DJ, Modern Art Gallery, London

  OUT OF MY MIND by Jack Bilbo ~ First Edition / First Printing, 1946 HC/DJ, Modern Art Gallery, London ~ Illustrated by the Author

 Publisher: Modern Art Gallery Limited, London (1946, First edition)

First edition, first printing of "Out of My Mind" by Jack Bilbo from 1946. The book features his artwork, "strange stories" and poetical musings. Illustrations by the author. The book is filled with wonderfully addictive stories. It is in excellent condition, with solid, tight boards and binding along with crisp clean pages save for stamp on the first blank page ("A Hanison Free Gift, Not Returnable") and spots of foxing at the page bottom. The uncut dust jacket still shows its original price, and has chipping to the top spine end and light shelf-wear. Please see pictures, and see below for more information on the author and artist!

Jack Bilbo was an outsider artist fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1940s. In 1941, Bilbo opened The Modern Art Gallery in London, exhibiting the work of Kurt Schwitters, Pablo Picasso, and his own paintings and drawings, as well as the work of many unknown artists.