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DISHER, Maurice Willson. Clown, London, Leonard Parsons, 1924, 8°, FIRST EDITION, front blank INSCRIBED to John Arlott and with 6 line verse entitled "Lines to make a poet shudder 1944" in Disher's hand, original cloth; Clowns and Pantomimes, London, Constable, 1925, 4°, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Disher to John Arlott, coloured frontispiece, plates, illustrations, original cloth gilt (rebacked preserving old spine, rather soiled); The Last Romantic; the Authorised Biography of Sir John Harvey Martin, London, Hutchinson, [n.d.], 8°, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Disher "To the Voice that makes ghostly batsmen flicker to and fro, with thanks for bringing the green peace of Lord's to a man too lazy to revisit it," plates, original cloth, dust-jacket; Melodrama, London, Rockliff, 1954, 8°, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "To John Arlott first human collector to collect the works of M. Willson Disher ...," plates, original cloth, dust-jacket; and 11 others works by the same author, all but one inscribed to Arlott, the remaining vol. signed, several containing loosely-inserted autograph letters by Disher. (15)