[Rarebooks] FS: Superb INSCRIBED John Berryman, price much reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $6000   Now  $3500

BERRYMAN, John. STEPHEN CRANE. [New York]: William Sloane Associates, 
(1950). First Edition. Berryman's critical biography of Crane, an 
important work in the study of the writer of THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. 
This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 
B. Smillie, who rank second in the paragraph-long list of people 
Berryman recognizes a debt to in his preface. An ancestor of the 
Smillie's, Lily Brandon Munroe, was an early love interest of Crane's. 
Berryman's full-page INSCRIPTION on the front endpaper: "To Mr. & Mrs. 
Smillie/with very many thanks/for a kindness and/hospitality & the 
return/of a shabby but fairly warm/topcoat/Best/John Berryman/21 Nov. 
1950/I think you will find the chronology/of your letters more or less 
right--/they are much earlier than Mrs./Smillie Senior thought." Some 
offsetting to the endpaper with Berryman's inscription from a previously 
laid in clipping. Brief closed tear to front of dustwrapper. Near Fine 
in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a sunned spine.         $3,500.00

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