STEVENS, WALLACE. Three typed letters signed to Thomas Meade Harwell, Jr., in New York; Hartford, Conn., 28 July and 3 and 10 August, all 1954. Together 3 pages, 4to, on Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company letterheads, the first two creased from folding, with 2 envelopes. 28 July: "You sound like a most alarming collector. It may be that I have a copy of the first edition of Harmonium [offered in lot 88] and if I have, I shall bring it down to the office for you; but recently several other collectors have turned up, and one's first book is always the one they don't have and want..." 10 August: "I am sending you a copy of The Alcestis Press' Owl's Clover [offered in lot 89]. After this was published [in 1936] they wrote to me saying that they had about ten or twelve copies left and offered to sell them to me for a good deal less than the original price, and this is one of those copies. It is not numbered because I have no idea whether this is a copy in excess of the copies planned to be numbered. It is in every way the same as the numbered copies, even to the broken back on the [publisher's] slip case. The few copies that remain all have backs like this..." (3)

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STEVENS, WALLACE. Three typed letters signed to Thomas Meade Harwell, Jr., in New York; Hartford, Conn., 28 July and 3 and 10 August, all 1954. Together 3 pages, 4to, on Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company letterheads, the first two creased from folding, with 2 envelopes. 28 July: "You sound like a most alarming collector. It may be that I have a copy of the first edition of Harmonium [offered in lot 88] and if I have, I shall bring it down to the office for you; but recently several other collectors have turned up, and one's first book is always the one they don't have and want..." 10 August: "I am sending you a copy of The Alcestis Press' Owl's Clover [offered in lot 89]. After this was published [in 1936] they wrote to me saying that they had about ten or twelve copies left and offered to sell them to me for a good deal less than the original price, and this is one of those copies. It is not numbered because I have no idea whether this is a copy in excess of the copies planned to be numbered. It is in every way the same as the numbered copies, even to the broken back on the [publisher's] slip case. The few copies that remain all have backs like this..." (3)

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