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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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)