SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Poems and Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, 1866, 12mo, original green cloth, rear inner hinge cracked and repaired, red morocco case , Second Edition. Tipped in: Autograph letter signed from Swinburne to the author Augustus Hare, the Pines, Putney Hill, 3 February 1881, 3 pages, 8vo, on mourning stationery, nearly separated at center fold , a literary letter: "I am sincerely glad that my very imperfect & inadequate tribute to the memory of our illustrious friend should have given pleasure to one whose family name is indissolubly connected with his by the immortal record of a noble friendship. If ever I can -- in default of a better editor -- bring out an edition of his selected poems, with a prefatory essay on his place as a poet among the great names of our countrymen, I shall know that I have done him the only service in my power worthy alike of his claims & of my own affectionate veneration for him..."; with the Hare bookplate -- [SWINBURNE]. CHARLES DICKENS Bleak House. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890, 8vo, original maroon cloth, uncut, spine a bit stained, front inner hinge cracked , illustrated, ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SWINBURNE on the half-title to his companion and solicitor: "W.T. Watts Dunton from AC Swinburne" -- [SWINBURNE]. LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS. Poems, Paris, 1896, 8vo, original printed wrappers, uncut, spine broken and worn, maroon half morocco slipcase , FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, text in English and French, PRESENTATION COPY TO SWINBURNE, inscribed by Douglas opposite frontispiece portrait: "With the author's compliments. Alfred Douglas. November 1896," with the Swinburne 1915 auction sale bookplate and the Paul Hyde Bonner bookplate; together 3 vols. and one letter. (4)
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Poems and Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, 1866, 12mo, original green cloth, rear inner hinge cracked and repaired, red morocco case , Second Edition. Tipped in: Autograph letter signed from Swinburne to the author Augustus Hare, the Pines, Putney Hill, 3 February 1881, 3 pages, 8vo, on mourning stationery, nearly separated at center fold , a literary letter: "I am sincerely glad that my very imperfect & inadequate tribute to the memory of our illustrious friend should have given pleasure to one whose family name is indissolubly connected with his by the immortal record of a noble friendship. If ever I can -- in default of a better editor -- bring out an edition of his selected poems, with a prefatory essay on his place as a poet among the great names of our countrymen, I shall know that I have done him the only service in my power worthy alike of his claims & of my own affectionate veneration for him..."; with the Hare bookplate -- [SWINBURNE]. CHARLES DICKENS Bleak House. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890, 8vo, original maroon cloth, uncut, spine a bit stained, front inner hinge cracked , illustrated, ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SWINBURNE on the half-title to his companion and solicitor: "W.T. Watts Dunton from AC Swinburne" -- [SWINBURNE]. LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS. Poems, Paris, 1896, 8vo, original printed wrappers, uncut, spine broken and worn, maroon half morocco slipcase , FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, text in English and French, PRESENTATION COPY TO SWINBURNE, inscribed by Douglas opposite frontispiece portrait: "With the author's compliments. Alfred Douglas. November 1896," with the Swinburne 1915 auction sale bookplate and the Paul Hyde Bonner bookplate; together 3 vols. and one letter. (4)
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