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BRITISH AUTHORS -- INSCRIBED BOOKS]. PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. The Secret Woman. [1905]. Half morocco case. PRESUMABLY THE DEDICATION COPY: beneath the printed dedication to Algernon Charles Swinburne, Phillpotts has drawn a short line and has written "Eden Phillpotts. January 1905." Pencilled note and bookplate of Harry B. Smith (of A Sentimental Library ) -- BATES, H.E. Seven Tales and Alexander. 1929. Lower fore-corners bit worn; dust jacket soiled and frayed. One of 950 copies. INSCRIBED to "William Hunter... his friend the author" in 1929 -- HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Those Barren Leaves. 1925. Defective dust jacket . INSCRIBED in 1927 with a four-line quote from Wordsworth's poetry -- MOORE, GEORGE. A Story-Teller's Story. New York, 1918. Half morocco slipcase. One of 125 copies (this unnumbered). INSCRIBED to Ethel Palmer, Dec. 1918, who apparently helped him write The Brook Kerith -- SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. Family History. 1932. Pictorial dust jacket defective. INSCRIBED by "the Dowager Lady Sackville. 12 Oct. 1932... Book to lend," referring in the inscription to the dust jacket and Sissinghurst Castle pictured on it, and to Harold Nicolson -- STEPHENS, JAMES. In the Land of Youth. 1924. Dust jacket; half morocco slipcase. INSCRIBED: "I think that the second part of this book is (almost) my best work..." Bookplates of Frederick Spiegelberg and Maxwell Steinhardt -- KEEN, RALPH HOLBROOK. The Little Ape. [1921]. Worn pictorial dust jacket. INSCRIBED in pencil by Keen. Illustrated by John Austen (his first illustrated work) -- And 10 other works, 1915-39, varying condition, each either signed, inscribed, or with a note or letter laid in by the respective authors (including Drinkwater, Claude Houghton, Phillpotts, David Garnett and Louis Golding). Virtually all London. Together 17 vols., 12mo-8vo, original bindings. FIRST EDITIONS. (17)