UNIT ONE: The Modern Movement in English Architecture Painting and Sculpture.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1934.

First edition. 4to. 247x184mm. pp124, [2]. Sixty-seven black and white plates. Yellow cloth, illustrated and lettered in brown. Original grey dust-jacket lettered in red. Head and foot of spine of jacket chipped, some small tears to top edge. Rubbing and slight fading to spine. Otherwise a very good copy and internally in excellent condition.
Unit One was founded in 1933 by Paul Nash in a letter to The Times in which he wrote that the group was "to stand for the expression of a truly contemporary spirit, for that thing which is recognised as peculiarly of today in painting, sculpture and architecture". The other artists in the Unit were John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth. They held only one exhibition, in 1934, which was accompanied by this book. With its introduction by Herbert Read and its extensive illustrations, the book remains an important statement of British Modernism in art.