Live auction - Lot 98

[France - Hours Press]

SYMONS, Arthur

Mes souvenirs.

Chapelle-Réanville, Hours Press, [1929]

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Large 8vo (quires partly unopened).

Publisher's cardboard, front cover gilt titled (rubbed).

Sixth book printed by the Hours Press. Edition limited to 200 copies (n. 98 signed by the author). "Mes souvenirs" is composed of "three enchanting literary essays [...] expressely written for me [i.e. Nancy Cunard] [...] an honor that grew the more in my eyes after reading with what freshness and personality he had written these pages on Veraline, on "Bohemian Chelsea", and on the Indian poetes, Sarojini Chattopadhya, in "The Magic of the East"" (Cunard, These were the Hours, p. 67). Text in English, only the title being in French.
Joined: Cunard, Nancy - These were The Hours. Memories of my Hours Press, Reanville and Paris, 1928-1931 [...]. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press; London and Amsterdam, Feffer & Simons, (1969). 8vo. Publisher's cloth, ill. dust wrapper. (2 vol.)

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Lot 98

Mes souvenirs.

SYMONS, Arthur

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