Beschreibung:

i) Laurence Binyon. The Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics. London: Macmillan, 1927, small 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO LAURENCE OLIVIER (“To the greatest English Actor | of the twentieth century, | on the occasion of his | Greatest Performance | so far. | Richard III. Sept 1944 | from Yvonne and Jamie Hamilton”) on a preliminary blank, full blue morocco; ii) Bernard de Fontenelle. A Plurality of Worlds. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929, 8vo, number 1119 of 1600 copies, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“… from Jamie | September 1944 | with love”) on the front free endpaper, original vellum wrappers; iii) Ben Jonson. The Masque of Queenes. London: The King’s Printers, 1930, folio, number 131 of 350 copies, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH WITH A 16 LINE VERSE (“…In sign of her ascent to fame | through ten triumphant years, | As month by month her flight became | the envy of her peers. […] with love and congratulations | from Jamie May 15 1945”) on the front free endpaper, original red boards, slightly soiled; iv) Franz Werfel. The Song of Bernadette. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1942, 8vo, first UK edition, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“Darling Vivien | with love from Yvonne and Jamie | Nov 5 1942”) on the front free endpaper, original blue cloth; v) Nancy Mitford. The Pursuit of Love. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“…with love from | Jamie 1945”) on the front free endpaper, original blue cloth, boards slightly soiled; vi) James Thurber The Thuber Carnival. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1945, 8vo, later edition, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“…with love from | James, August 1945”) on the front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth; vii) Clifton Fadiman. Reading I’ve Liked. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“…with love from | Jamie. September 1946 | “Skin of our Teeth””) on the front free endpaper, original red cloth; viii) Derrick Leon. Tolstoy. His Life and Works. London: Routledge, 1946, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN AND LARRY (“…with love from | Jamie. August 1947”) on the front free endpaper, additional autograph note paperclipped in, original black cloth, cloth soiled; ix) Nancy Mitford. Love in a Cold Climate. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949, small 8vo, proof copy, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN AND LARRY (“…with love from Jamie | Summer 1949”) on the half-title, original paper wrappers; x) Lucy Norton. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix London: Phaidon Press, 1951, small 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“Darling Vivien | with Jamie’s love | July 1952”) on the front free endpaper, original yellow cloth; xi) Hamish Hamilton. Majority 1931-1952. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN AND LARRY (“To darling Vivien and | Larry, with love from | Jamie. May 1952”) on a preliminary blank, original red cloth; xii) Alan Moorehead. The Traitors. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“Darling Vivien, | Happy holidays | and love from | Jamie. June | 1952”) on the front free endpaper, original red cloth; xiii) E.B. White. Charlotte’s Web. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952, 8vo, first UK edition, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“To Vivien, who | loved Stuart Little, | from Jamie | 1952”) on the front free endpaper, original blue cloth lettered in red, spine slightly browned; xiv) J.D. Salinger. For Esmé – with Love and Squalor. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953, 8vo, first UK edition, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“Darling Vivien | from Jamie | May 1953”) on the front free endpaper, original blue cloth (14)