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[Booklet] Honey and Gall (Studies in Mystic Materialism)

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Llewellyn Powys, author
Publication details: 
Little Blue Book No.534, Haldeman-Julius Company, Girard, Kansas, [1924]
£120.00
Honey and Gall (Studies in Mystic Materialism)

64pp., c.8.5 x 12.5cm, fair condition, covers faded to beige rather than blue. Inscribed (slightly faded) on front cover Gertrude M. Powys | Easter 1945 | from Alyse. Alyse Gregory, American suffragist and writer, wife of Llewellyn Powys. Gertrude Powys, artist sister of the Powys brothers. The title-page has been inscribed by the husband of a member of the Powys Society who was giving the booklet to Margaret Eaton, bookseller (Peter Eaton), also a member of the Powys Society. Enclosed: Photograph, 15 x 8cm, probably of aged Llewellyn Powys reading a book

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Autograph Letter Signed by Gregory to W. Disspain. Also a first edition of Gregory's book 'Wheels on Gravel', bearing an Signed Autograph Inscription to Disspain by Powys, who wrote the book's introduction.

Author: 
Alyse Gregory (1884-1967), American feminist and writer; her brother-in-law John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), Anglo-Welsh writer
Publication details: 
Gregory's letter: 22 November 1958. On embossed letterhead of Velthams Cottage, Morebath, nr. Tiverton, Devon. The book: London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. Powys's inscription dated November 1958.
£250.00

Gregory's letter: 8vo, 1 p. Thirteen lines of text. Very good on lightly-creased paper. A telling comment on the craze for inscribed copies of books. She is 'sorry to seem disobliging', but considers that 'an author's inscription seems [...] to have significance only when the book in question has been presented to a friend or when it is likely to become profitable to a dealer'. Her book 'qualifies in neither category'. She is 'puzzled to know' how Disspain 'came upon' her address. Gregory's book: 8vo, 208 pp. No dust wrapper. Grubby copy in worn original red cloth binding.

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