[Rarebooks] Four books discounted

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Venice has sold.

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 2:03 PM Allington Books <allingtonbooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 over 650 "hitherto unpublished poems by Emily Dickinson" -- and thus the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
>>
>> --
Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435