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3. BATES, H.E. ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANU- SCRIPT: The Handkercheif Tree 1970. Seven pages of plain quarto sized paper, written on rectos only. Approx. 1000 words, with occasional cor- rections. Cover page inscribed by Bates, “For Frank and Joan: - just a little return for a wonderful day. Let me have the typescript back one day at your conven- ience (sorry! I meant when you have time!) with love HE. June 23 / 70”. With a photocopy of the typescript. Also with a letter from Frank Rodwell, thanking Bates for this manu- script and for the typescript of “The Triple Echo”, commenting how he would have it bound with the manuscript and also asking “Do you not feel, as I do, that The Triple Echo would make a wonderful film” (it was filmed in 1972 staring Glenda Jackson and Ol - iver Reed). [28973] £1,250 An essay published in In Living (December 1970) in which Bates relates a visit to a nearby garden containing two spec- imens of the Handkerchief Tree, and tells the tale of its re- discovery in 1899 by Ernest Henry Wilson.
RUPERT BROOKE TO FELLOW DYMOCK POET
6. BROOKE, Rupert POEMS Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First edition. Original dark blue-black cloth with paper title label on the spine. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to fellow poet W.W. Gibson, “Wilfred Gibson from Rupert Brooke 1913”. Three further autograph corrections by Brooke to the text: adding the work “so” to the second line of the second verse on p.32, changing the title of the poem on p.34 from “Libido” to “Lust” and changing “Senility’s greasy furtive love-making” to “senility’s queasy furtive love-making” on p.35. A very good copy indeed, crisp and clean with light spotting to the prelims and tanning to spine label. [40129] £17,500 An exceptional and rare presentation copy of Brooke’s first commercially published work. Gibson and Brooke met in London, and later, along with Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, moved to Dymock, where they collaborated on their own quarterly entitled ‘New Numbers’. ‘Poems’ is the only collection published in Brooke’s short lifetime, before he died one of the most famous deaths in English history on St George’s Day 1915. Owing to this and to the limited print run of 500 copies, inscribed copies appear very seldom in commerce: there has been no copy at auction for 30 years, a meagre six examples in the last century 1939, 1946, 1968 (the present copy), 1972, 1988 and 1990. The authorial corrections to the text on pages 32 and 35 appear in the second edition of 1913. Brooke’s manuscript altering the title the poem ‘Libido’ to ‘Lust’ was a reversal of a change forced upon him by his publishers, who asked for the poem to be removed entirely, but eventually settled for the change of title. This title remained until ‘Collected Poems’ of 1918. Keynes 5; Schroder 8 PROVENANCE: W. W. Gibson (1878-1962), presentation inscription from Brooke, sold July 1968 as part of the sale of Gibson’s library to: John Schroder (noted Brooke collector whose Brooke papers were sold to King’s College Cambridge in 2015); by descent.
WILLIAM BOYD TO BRIAN ALDISS 4. BOYD, William A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
First edition. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on publication to fellow novelist, Brian Aldiss and his wife, “For Brian + Margaret with all good wishes from your new neighbor William Boyd 6.Nov.1981” Dustwrapper illustration by Michael MacManus. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with slightly faded spine. [40334] £1,250 Boyd moved to Oxford to embark on a DPhil thesis on Shelley and to lecture in English in 1980. In 1981 he moved next door to Aldiss and, “sharing a relish for literary life and white wine, we immediately became friends” - Aldiss (The Twinkling of an Eye). Laid in is a page of notes made by Aldiss as he read the book, mainly mildly critical with the odd word of praise: “92 Stupid Welsh gits out of K[ingsley] A[mis]... 134 Morgan a Tom Sharpe Hero... 156 the affair with Celia: good. Improvement on Ch.I”. The author’s first novel and winner of the Whitbread Award, on publication it was likened to a cross between Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis: “it is as though Lucky Jim had been suddenly transported to the mythical kingdom of Azania in Black Mischief.” (New York Times) 5. BOYD, William SCHOOL TIES Hamish Hamilton, 1985. First edition. Original black boards in photographic dustwrapper. Author’s presenta- tion copy to fellow author Brian Aldiss, inscribed on the half title, “To Brian + Margaret with love, Will” Further signed on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. [40336] £850
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