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Auction archive: Lot number 265

CUSHING PRESENTATION COPY.

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 265

CUSHING PRESENTATION COPY.

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939. From a Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, ruled device in blind to upper cover, original dust jacket, minor chipping to edges of jacket, toning to spine. WITH: Two Typed Letters Signed ("Harvey Cushing") to Philip Gosse, one on Gosse's Go to the Country and the other on this book, 1 p each, 280 x 214 mm, Yale letterhead, August 29, 1936, and September 5, 1936, folded and mounted to rear endpapers. Provenance: Philip Gosse (1879-1959, author and naturalist, authorial inscription); Lucia Fulton (ms note to endpaper); Arthur Ebbert (holograph letter to Dr. Goodrich). INSCRIBED BY CUSHING TO NATURALIST PHILIP GOSSE, "Dr. Philip Gosse/ with the regards of Harvey Cushing/ New Haven, July 13, 1936." A second printing, with two autograph letters from Cushing to Gosse mounted at the rear. The first letter compliments his book Go to the Country, and mentioning their friend Cairns, and Cushing's collection of Herbals. The second letter responds to Gosse's complimentary note on the Journal, having found it by way of Michael Sadleir, apparently. Cushing also offers an additional introduction to "B.J." [Baynes-Jones]. Dr. Philip Gosse was an English medical doctor, and then naturalist and author, the son of critic Edmund Gosse. Gosse had been a friend of Siegfried Sassoon, and penned a well received memoir of his own of the Great War, Memoirs of a Camp Follower," called by the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, "a most unusual war book; every chapter is interesting and most contain many amusing episodes... he has forgotten most of the 'horrors' of the War and remembers the beasts and birds" Cushing's Journal documents his experiences during the war, also with a literary eye, but as the New York Times noted, "Gruesome and full of shadows as this journal is, it has its glorious lights in the things of beauty and the deeds of sacrifice and bravery that illumine it" (Finley, John, "Dr Cushing's Diary of Lights and Shadows in the War," May 24, 1936).

Auction archive: Lot number 265
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 2021
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
Beschreibung:

CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939. From a Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, ruled device in blind to upper cover, original dust jacket, minor chipping to edges of jacket, toning to spine. WITH: Two Typed Letters Signed ("Harvey Cushing") to Philip Gosse, one on Gosse's Go to the Country and the other on this book, 1 p each, 280 x 214 mm, Yale letterhead, August 29, 1936, and September 5, 1936, folded and mounted to rear endpapers. Provenance: Philip Gosse (1879-1959, author and naturalist, authorial inscription); Lucia Fulton (ms note to endpaper); Arthur Ebbert (holograph letter to Dr. Goodrich). INSCRIBED BY CUSHING TO NATURALIST PHILIP GOSSE, "Dr. Philip Gosse/ with the regards of Harvey Cushing/ New Haven, July 13, 1936." A second printing, with two autograph letters from Cushing to Gosse mounted at the rear. The first letter compliments his book Go to the Country, and mentioning their friend Cairns, and Cushing's collection of Herbals. The second letter responds to Gosse's complimentary note on the Journal, having found it by way of Michael Sadleir, apparently. Cushing also offers an additional introduction to "B.J." [Baynes-Jones]. Dr. Philip Gosse was an English medical doctor, and then naturalist and author, the son of critic Edmund Gosse. Gosse had been a friend of Siegfried Sassoon, and penned a well received memoir of his own of the Great War, Memoirs of a Camp Follower," called by the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, "a most unusual war book; every chapter is interesting and most contain many amusing episodes... he has forgotten most of the 'horrors' of the War and remembers the beasts and birds" Cushing's Journal documents his experiences during the war, also with a literary eye, but as the New York Times noted, "Gruesome and full of shadows as this journal is, it has its glorious lights in the things of beauty and the deeds of sacrifice and bravery that illumine it" (Finley, John, "Dr Cushing's Diary of Lights and Shadows in the War," May 24, 1936).

Auction archive: Lot number 265
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 2021
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
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