[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED to a Poet who used the ashes of a Fantasy Writer as a condiment for his guests

[Charles Agvent]

STRONG, L.A.G. A DEFENSE OF IGNORANCE. New York: House of Books, 1932. 
First Edition. Copy #226 of 200(!) SIGNED copies. Additionally INSCRIBED 
by the author in 1937 to poet John Gawsworth. Light sunning to spine. 
Very Good.

Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, better known as John Gawsworth, was a 
British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies. As literary executor 
to fantasy writer M. P. Shiel, Armstrong also inherited the throne of 
the Kingdom of the micronation associated with the tiny uninhabited 
Caribbean island of Redonda styling himself H.M. Juan I. According to 
John Sutherland's LIVES OF THE NOVELISTS, "the excessively minor poet 
John Gawsworth" kept the ashes of M. P. Shiel "in a biscuit tin on his 
mantelpiece, dropping a pinch as condiment into the food of any 
particularly honoured guest." (#001305) $75.00

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