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New York: Scribner's, 1936. First Edition Inscribed by Scribner's editor, Maxwell Perkins to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the front endpaper: 'To Marjorie, With admiration and affection from Maxwell Perkins, May 22nd, 1936.' A very good or better copy in rose cloth, (slight fade to the edge of the front panel), gilt titles to the spine in a bright dustwrapper showing some overall use. Ex-Libris Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, with her pencil quotations marking passages throughout the book. On the margin of pp. 17, Rawlings wrote, 'Something you can't understand or believe until it happens', in reference to Wolfe's passage, 'I wanted to lead the same kind of obscure and private life I'd always had and not be told about my fame and success'. Provenance: Philip May, Sr., close friend of Rawlings and her husband Norton Baskin. May acted as Rawlings' attorney in the critical Cross Creek Trial. Subsequent to her death, a portion of her personal library and correspondence passed to May, Sr. and then to his son, Philip May, Jr.. First Edition.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1927.. First Edition Limited to 1500 copies Inscribed by Geoffrey Keynes to Canadian poet Robin Skelton on the first free endpaper. A near fine or better copy, (some offsetting to prelims), in red and taupe brocade. Teg. 8vo. 213 pp. Printed from the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library.. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 1943. A rare publication as the MOMA intended print run was curtailed due to war time restrictions of paper. A fine example in dustwrapper which has been gingerly restored. Warmly inscribed by Calder on the title page in blue fountain pen & dated 3 Feb 19 52. Very Uncommon..

Consigny: Embers Press, 1977., 1977. First Edition. #63 of 200 copies. Fine in the publisher's white stiff card wrappers and brown card dustwrapper. With a letter from the publisher laid-in. 8vo. 60 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

London: Faber and Faber, (1974)., 1974. First Edition. A lovely copy in green cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper portraying Augustus John's painting of Ottoline Morrell. 8vo. 304 pp. A memorable autobiography illuminating relationships with D.H. Lawre nce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, The Bloomsbury Group, Bertrand Russell and the literary and artistic scenes of her time. "Ottoline singled out the people she admired for qualities that she was often the first to detect and champion, and brought the m together at Bedford Square and then at Garsington." Virginia Woolf.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.