[Rarebooks] FS: Stephen Spender Firsts, some signed, most reduced in price

[Charles Agvent]

SPENDER, Stephen. JOURNALS 1939-1983. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin 
Library, 1985. First Edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 
photographs. Limited and true First Edition SIGNED by the author and 
with a special introduction by him not included in the trade edition. 
Some light spotting to gilt of bulked text edges, otherwise Fine. 
(#002640)        $20.00

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SPENDER, Stephen. LETTERS TO CHRISTOPHER: STEPHEN SPENDER'S LETTERS TO 
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD 1929-1939 WITH "THE LINE OF THE BRANCH"- TWO 
THIRTIES JOURNALS. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First 
Edition. Letters to Christopher Isherwood from 1929 - 1939 with two 
journals from the 1930s, edited by Lee Bartlett. One of 1000 trade copes 
bound with a blue corduroy spine and pictorial boards. Near Fine in a 
Near Fine clear mylar dustwrapper, as issued. (#010295)        $35.00

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SPENDER, Stephen. POEMS OF DEDICATION. New York: Random House, (1947). 
First Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED to Bill and Frankie on 16 February 
1948, on the half-title page. Although there is no other indication, the 
Bill in this inscription is American composer William Schuman. Near Fine 
in a Very Good dustwrapper with some soiling and rubbing. (#001325)    
     $175.00

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SPENDER, Stephen. RUINS AND VISIONS. London: Faber & Faber, (1942). 
First Edition. Owner names dated 1942 and 1954. Near Fine in a Very Good 
dustwrapper with a darkened spine. (#006200) $100.00

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SPENDER, Stephen. TRIAL OF A JUDGE. New York: Random House, (1938). 
First Edition. Drama based on the outrages committed by the Nazis. 
SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page in 1976. Gutters darkened; 
owner name on the front endpaper dated 1940.Very Good in a Very Good 
dustwrapper with chips at the spine tips. (#003081)        $125.00

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SPENDER, Stephen. WORLD WITHIN WORLD. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN 
SPENDER. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1951). First Edition. 
Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the 
small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, 
many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase 
by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Fine in a close to Fine 
dustwrapper. (#015132)        $35.00

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