[Rarebooks] FS: Uncorrected Proof of Stevie Smith's MOTHER, WHAT IS MAN? Inscribed with numerous corrections and an ORIGINAL DRAWING

[Charles Agvent]

SMITH, Stevie. MOTHER, WHAT IS MAN? POEMS AND DRAWINGS. (London): 
Jonathan Cape, (1942). First Edition. Uncorrected proof in dark blue 
wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil to her close 
friends, writer Olivia Manning and her husband, BBC producer Reggie 
Smith: "To dear Olivia/and Reggie/with love from/Stevie." There are also 
numerous pencil corrections by the author throughout the text regarding 
both the poems and the drawings. Pasted to the verso of the last page is 
a corrected typed manuscript of Smith's poem "Christmas," which is not 
listed in the table of contents but which was eventually included in the 
published volume of this title. Also on the verso of an unrelated 8-1/2" 
x 11" letter stapled to the inside rear cover is a large ORIGINAL 
DRAWING by Stevie Smith in ink and crayon. Not having a copy of the 
finished book, we do not know if it appears there, but it is highly 
likely that it does. Very Good and absolutely unique. (#012607)        
$2,500.00

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