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Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the
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Greetings to All.
Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the
below-described works at a substantial  discount:
Dickinson, Emily; [Shepard, Odell]
Bolts of Melody [Excellent Provenance]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (some pushing to the
spine ends, minor rubbing to the board corners) in a Very Good dust jacket
(some general wear, modest chipping, small hole at the front flap fold, two
tiny tape mends to the verso), being the copy of professor, poet,
politician, and Pulitzer Prize winner Odell Shepard who has (in pencil)
signed the book on the front pastedown, underscored his signature, and
dated it "1945", the year of the volume's publication. The volume presents
over 650 "hitherto unpublished poems by Emily Dickinson" -- and thus the
first publication of this large number of Emily Dickinson Poems. [The poems
have no titles and they are numbered sequentially.] Scattered through the
text are Odell Shepard's underlinings, half-bracketings, check marks,
comments, observations, and corrections, all in pencil. For example: next
to one Poem Shepard has written: "[illegible] Walter de la Mare's poem
about children going to a funeral." By another, Poem number 427, he has
written "Perhaps a sketch of the wonderful #429-" a Poem above which
Shepard has placed two check marks, within which he has placed several
underlinings, by which he has drawn vertical lines in the left margin of
every verse, and next to which he has written: "Oh what a poem! Feminine
Blake. For once, technically perfect, but, as often, it goes beyond
perfection." (with "beyond" underscored). By another he refers to Noah
Webster's definition of a word in the Poem, and by another he writes of a
metaphor by Shakespeare. By other Poems he makes references to John Donne,
George Meredith, and Keats. Other interesting notes and markings also are
present. Odell Shepard won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography or
Autobiography for "Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott". [Bronson
Alcott was the father of writer Louisa May Alcott and was one of the
foremost Transcendentalists of his time.] A Very Good copy of this
collection of Emily Dickinson Poems having an excellent Provenance and
various added markings and notations by Pulitzer Prize winner Odell
Shepard. A UNIQUE AND NOTABLE COPY. Very good / very good. Item #2696

Price: $145.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $40.


Dwivedi, Dr. A. N. [Dwivedi, Amar Nath]; Smith, Grover; Cady, Edward
Indian Thought and Tradition in T. S. Eliot's Poetry [a Specimen Copy,
Together with Original Relevant Correspondence of Grover Smith, Edward
Cady, and A. N. Dwivedi; EXCELLENT PROVENANCE]

Bara Bazar, Bareilly (U.P.) India: Prakash Book Depot, 1977. First Edition,
First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first
printing, in an about Very Good dust jacket (some soiling and chipping as
well as a few tape repairs a tiny hole to the front flap and a larger one
the the rear flap) of this work regarding the influence India had on the
Poetry of T. S. Eliot seeking to trace the impact of Indian thought and
tradition on Eliot's Poetry and presenting a general survey by Dr. Dwivedi,
including a chapter discussing Eliot's "The Waste Land" from an Indian
angle intended to help the reader understand that great Poem more fully.
Dwivedi also brings to light the influences of Hinduism and Buddhism found
in Eliot's "Four Quartets", as well as other Indian references in Eliot's
Poetry. The book's title page is stamped as a "Specimen Copy" not for sale.
Loosely laid into the volume are the following letters: (i) original typed
letter signed from Professor Grover Smith to Professor Edwin H. Cady of
Duke University, the then-editor of "American Literature" regarding
Dwivedi's work and a complaint about it made by a certain "Rao" that Smith
believes to be born of the work's being about a "subject that he [Rao] had
staked out of his own" and thus born of "personal chagrin" (in the bottom
margin, Cady has written and signed a reply note to Smith; (ii) original
typed letter signed by Dwivedi on blue air mail stationary from Dwivedi to
Grover Smith dated June 14, 1980 thanking Smith for having arranged the
publication of reviews in "American Literature" and the "South Atlantic
Quarterly" and discussing the comments made in such reviews -- the first
being the aforementioned Mr. Rao's review which appeared in "American
Literature" wherein Rao "hit me hard", and mentioning that his book has
produced a good response in India and that his (Dwivedi's) book of English
Poems was to be published soon and requesting a signed copy of Smith's book
on Eliot published by Chicago University Press; (iii) original typed letter
signed by Dwivedi on blue air mail stationary from Dwivedi to Grover Smith
dated June 5, 1981 -- and having short "P.S" in Dwivedi's hand in the
letter's bottom margin -- in the letter, Dwivedi mentions that he has given
Smith as a reference in Dwivedi's application for a fellowship from the
United States Educational Foundation in India for a post-doctoral
fellowship in the USA and requesting that Smith send to the Foundation a
"fair, frank evaluation of myself as an individual, scholar, and
teacher/researcher." Dwivedi declares his intention to produce a work to be
titled "American Humour and Mark Twain". Dwivedi further states that he has
dedicated his newest book, "T. S. Eliot's Major Poems: An Indian
Interpretation" (to be published by the Institute of English & American
Studies" in Austria) to Smith and notes that he has, in such book,
"...taken the occasion to justify myself from the undue criticism of Mr.
Rao of Wisconsin University, and have attacked him for his false
assumptions."; and (iv) Copy of a Typed Letter Signed from Grover Smith to
A. N. Dwivedi on white stationary with an address to the upper right corner
showing the letter to have been sent from Cambridge, England wherein Smith
advises Dwivedi that Dwivedi's letter to Smith had been forwarded to him in
Cambridge and mentioning that Smith has been in England doing research
while spending a sabbatical leave away from Duke University stating that he
(Smith) had written to the people in New Delhi about Dwivedi's fellowship
application, a carbon copy of which appears on this letter's verso and
advising Dwivedi that, if he gets the fellowship, he should study "some
narrower aspect of Mark Twain than humour as such, and not try to relate
him to American humour as a general topic..." and stating that "I am
looking forward to receiving the promised copy of your new Eliot study. I
appreciate your consideration and value your dedication, which naturally
surprises and pleases me." This copy, together with the loosely laid in
letters, belonged to Grover Smith and carries his ownership stamp on the
half-title. Smith was a Professor of English at Duke University for 41
years. As stated in his Obituary, Smith was the Alexander M. Proudfit
Fellow in Letters during 1945-1946, taught at Rutgers and at Yale and then
for forty-one years at Duke University, becoming Emeritus professor in
1993. Smith's publications included "T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays",
"Letters of Aldous Huxley", "The Waste Land" and "T. S. Eliot and the Use
of Memory". Professor Smith was a noted T. S. Eliot scholar both nationally
and internationally, and served as president of the T. S. Eliot Society of
St. Louis from 1989 to 1991. A Very Good copy of an interesting work on T.
S. Eliot with multiple letters loosely laid in. SCARCE. Very good / very
good. Item #2695

Price: $135.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $40.


Flagg, Edmund
Venice; The City of the Sea, From the Invasion by Napoleon in 1797 to the
Capitulation to Radetzky in 1849; with a Contemporaneous view of the
Peninsula

New York: Charles Scribner, 1853. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing -- issued in two
volumes -- in the Publisher's original decorative boards (wear to the spine
ends, rubbing to the board corners, some shelf wear to the board bottoms,
scattered foxing within) with a foldout map of Venice and the Lagoon in
which it lies (with a closed tear to the map's right side), and with
several illustrations scattered through the volumes -- each with its
original tissue guard. Situated on on a group of small islands, Venice was
the capital of the Republic of Venice from 697 to 1797 and a major
financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In
fact, it is considered to have been the first real international financial
center ever to exist. The American writer, author, and diplomat Edmund
Flagg (1815–1890) was appointed to the post of US Ambassador to the
Venetian City State in 1850. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of
Vienna, the Venetian Republic was annexed by the Austrian Empire and
remained a part thereof until it became part of the Kingdom of Italy in
1866 following a referendum held as a result of the Third Italian War of
Independence. Flagg's other works include two sequels to Alexander Dumas'
celebrated "The Count of Monte Cristo". First Edition copies of this work,
a firsthand account of what is considered by many to be the world's most
beautiful city, are quite scarce to the market, are especially so in their
original bindings and are even more so when in collectable condition. A
Very Good set of this notable work; QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Very good. Item
#2693

Price: $250.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $75.


Du Maurier, George [Author and Illustrator]
Trilby

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good or better copy of the first America edition, first printing,
and first illustrated edition (published in the same year as the UK
three-volume first -- the UK first illustrated edition was published in
1895) in the Publisher's original tan cloth with the front board lettered
in green and decorated in green and in gilt, and spine panel letted in gilt
and decorated in green (book somewhat askew); George Du Maurier's
highly-regarded Gothic novel, the book for which he is best known, a work
which became one of the most popular books of its time and features the
character "Svengali", a hypnotic character who seduces, dominates, and
exploits a young Irish girl named "Trilby" and makes her a famous singer.
"Svengali" was such an excellent character that his name has become a part
of the English language, with a "Svengali" being defined in the Oxford
English Dictionary as "a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric
influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose"). The novel
provided the basis for an 1895 Play and for several movies of the same name
and also served as the role model for Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera.
Very good. Item #2692

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Immediate payment is required.  To purchase, please email us and we will
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credit card information and we will charge your card.
All items are returnable (in the same condition as delivered to Buyer)
within 15 days of delivery (or attempted delivery, if earlier) of the item
to Buyer's mailing address.
Free shipping to destinations in the continental USA, other destinations at
cost minus $4.00.
All items are subject to prior sale.
With Thanks for your consideration of the above and
Best Wishes,
Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books



Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435