Dreiser Theodore Preface (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black cloth, gilt-stamped titles and publishers emblem, top edge tinted black. Small surface abrasion bottom of fc, but in very good condition. Essays on contrasts between England and Africa.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. With an original preface by Dreiser. Publisher's black ribbed cloth with gilt titles and embossed publisher monogram. An unusually well preserved copy, clean, bright and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Good+ condition, small 8vo, pages: 223,2 ads. Black cloth, gilt-stamped titles and publishers emblem, top edge tinted black. Light wear, soiling to back board, gilt on spine dulled, some fading to cloth, contents clean and unmarked. Bookseller's label back end-paper (Gertz, Jamaica, Long Island). Bookseller accession no.: 12069. As reviewed by 'The Bookman', July 1923: These stories of Africa and England are ".an unusual collection of sketches, poetic in content and language, though prose in external form. They are written in a minor key, these stories and impressions of a world full of suffering, brutality, death, and decay.".…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Second US edition (following the American Library Service edition of some months earlier), ALYSE GREGORY'S COPY. 8vo, incl. a striking b/w frontis by Winold Reiss. Original black cloth, stamped in yellow. Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Gentle bruising and rubbing to extremities, backstrip a touch sunned. Edges toned. Inscribed in pencil to ffep: "A Gregory," and below, in pencil and a PO's hand: ("Alyse Gregory"). Foxing to front and rear, occasionally to text block. Very good A pre-eminent association copy of Llewelyn Powys' first solo book, a collection of short stories and sketches set in Africa and England, owned by "his lady," Alyse Gregory, the editor of The Dial, which had originally carried two pieces collected here, 'A Sheepman's Diary' (April 1920) and 'Dead Matter in Africa' (March 1921). Anglo-American woman of letters, Alyse Gregory (1884-1967) married Llewelyn Powys in New York in 1924, a year after Ebony and Ivory's publication(s). They had met in 1921, when Powys received an invitation to tea at Patchin Place in a hand "spider-like and intellectual," reminding him of "Oscar Wilde's handwriting in his letters to Lois Wilkinson". Gregory's home "was entirely different from anything I had seen elsewhere in New York," as was "the poise, the intellectual intensity, the freedom from preconceptions, as of a child uncontaminated by the world, of my grave, delicately ironic hostess" (Powys, 1927). Gregory resigned her editorship of The Dial and the couple relocated to Britain in 1925, where they lived near East Chaldon, Dorset, close to Powys' equally talented and creative siblings, Theodore, Katie and Gertrude. The Harcourt Brace edition, with its striking b/w frontis by Winold Reiss (1886-1953), the German-born American artist and graphic designer, appeared shortly after the American Library Service edition of Ebony and Ivory. LLewellyn Powys (1927) The Verdict of Bridlegoose. London: Jonathan Cape.…

First Edition. Sides somewhat marked, spine a little sunned and dulled, otherwise a nice copy; the poet Kenneth Hopkins' copy with his owership signature Llewelyn Powys's first book to appear under his sole authorship.