[Rarebooks] FS: William Rose Benet Inscribed to Dorothy Parker

[Charles Agvent]

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total of 90 items, many quite scarce and remarkable as well as revealing 
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1.  BENET, William Rose [Dorothy PARKER]. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS).
The  front  free endpaper from an unidentified book (4-3/4" x  7-3/4")
with  an  1851 owner name at the top and on the bottom half  a  SIGNED
INSCRIPTION  from one poet to another: "--and then, in a new  century,
to/Dorothy  Parker from William/Rose Benet, this winter Aconite/or New
Year's  gift/Vinum  tuum bibe cum gaudio/January 1927."  William  Rose
Benet  was the brother of the poet and novelist Stephen Vincent  Benet
and  the husband of the American poet Elinor Wylie. He founded the The
SATURDAY  REVIEW OF LITERATURE in 1924 and was an editor and columnist
for  the magazine until his death. He received the 1942 Pulitzer Prize
for his volume of poems THE DUST WHICH IS GOD. Very Good       $150.00

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