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113 STOKER, Bram – CAINE, Hall. The Manxman. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895 A gift to Bram Stoker from the dedicatee of Dracula First US edition, limited large paper edition, number 232 of 250 copies only, presentation copy to the future author of Dracula , inscribed “To my dear friend Bram Stoker with love & greeting, Hall Caine. New York, Dec 3rd 1895”, a resonant association, as Stoker would reciprocate by dedicating Dracula (1897) to Caine, though disguised from the public as “Hommy-Beg” (Manx for Little Tommy). At the time of the presentation, Caine was on the first of many visits to the USA. He also went to Canada, where he negotiated with the government on behalf of the Society of Authors and the Foreign Office over a new copyright law. Stoker was in New York as Henry Irving’s business manager on the Lyceum Theatre’s American tour, during which the company performed at Abbey’s Theater on Broadway from 28 October to 21 December 1895. Ironically, given its lavish format here, The Manxman in its original London publication in 1894 as a single-volume novel is credited with sounding the death knell for the old triple-decker novel. This copy was offered by Maggs Bros., catalogue no. 460, 1925. Though without mark of his ownership, it was latterly in the collection of the Manhattan builder Evan M. Frankel (1902-1991), known as the Squire of East Hampton. 2 volumes, octavo. Original japon boards, spines and front covers lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut and partly unopened. With dust jackets. Housed in individual custom red morocco-backed bookform slipcases and chemises. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. I, 39 photogravure plates of Manx scenery, with captioned tissue guards, titles printed in red and black. A little spotting to japon, jackets toned and slightly chipped, excellent condition overall. £13,500 [158977]
114 STRACHEY, Lytton – SHAKESPEARE, William. Shakespeare’s Songs. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1912 to the lady of garsington A handsomely little edition by the Shakespeare Head Press, number 498 of 510 copies bound in a variety of imitation cloth covers, inscribed by Lytton Strachey on the front free endpaper to the chatelaine of Garsington, Lady Ottoline Morrell, “Ottoline from Lytton, Xmas. 1920” . The table of contents has some pencil markings to show the songs enjoyed by the reader, presumably Ottoline herself: “Come unto these Yellow Sands”, “Full Fathom Five”, “Where the Bee Sucks”, “Winter”, and “Under the Greenwood Tree”. Sextodecimo. Original red paper stamped in imitation of raffia over boards, title in black within recessed panel on front cover, untrimmed edges, black silk bookmarker. Cracking to front joint and spine, fresh within, good condition. £3,000 [152051] 115 STRACHEY, Lytton (his copy) – LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, duc de. Maximes. Paris: Damascene Morgand, 1883 A triple Bloomsbury association copy The Ham Spray House copy, with the bookplate of Lytton Strachey to the front pastedown and his pencil annotations throughout, in a binding by Ralph Partridge, with pretty patterned paper possibly by Dora Carrington. This is an evocative Bloomsbury association, commemorating the ménage à trois of Strachey, Partridge, and Carrington in one book.
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