[Rarebooks] FS: Logan Pearsall Smith's Complete TRIVIA Inscribed to Maurice Baring

[Charles Agvent]

SMITH, Logan Pearsall. TRIVIA Printed from the Papers of Anthony 
Woodhouse, Esq. with TRIVIA with MORE TRIVIA. London: Chiswick 
Press/Constable & Company, Ltd., 1902/1918/1922. First Edition. Three 
small (@5" x 6-1/2") volumes in original cloth-backed boards with 
printed paper spine labels, housed in a blue cloth chemise and slipcase 
by Jas. MacDonald Co. The first volume is one of 300 copies printed. The 
second volume is the later trade edition of same. The first two volumes 
with the small bookplate of Maurice Baring on the front pastedowns. The 
first volume is INSCRIBED "Maurice Baring/from/Logan Pearsall Smith/May 
15 1919" on the front endpaper. The second volume is SIGNED on the front 
endpaper "Logan Pearsall Smith/May 14 1919" and is followed by a 
HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT piece in four lines from the third volume, "In 
the Cage," with some changes of words: "'My own view is, my own view!'/I 
vociferate, as a parrot in the/great cage of the world, I 
hop/screeching, 'My own view is!' from/perch to perch." Minor soiling, 
the third volume largely unopened. Close to Fine in custom slipcase.
Maurice Baring was a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, 
travel writer, and war correspondent. The protagonist of G. K. 
Chesterton's collection of detective stories THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, 
Horne Fisher, is said to be based on Baring. (#020759)        $850

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