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Dwivedi, Du Maurier, and Dickinson have sold.  At present, Flagg's Venice;
The City of the Sea remains available.

Best Wishes,
Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC


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


On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 12:54 PM Allington Books <allingtonbooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings to All.
> Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the
> below-described works at a substantial  discount:
> 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 over 650 "hitherto unpublished poems by Emily Dickinson" -- and thus the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
>
> Price: $225.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $70.
>
>
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> 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
>
> Multiple images can be found at www.allingtonbooks.com
>
>
> Immediate payment is required.  To purchase, please email us and we will
> send the Buyer a PayPal invoice.  Alternatively, provide us with your
> 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
>
>