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BEERBOHM, Max. A Peep into the Past, [New York: Max Harzof] Privately Printed, 1923, large 8°, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, illustrations with some hand-colouring, original cloth-backed boards, illustration mounted on upper cover. [Gallatin & Oliver 20]
With a loosely-inserted two page letter, with envelope, from Max Beerbohm to Margaret Cousins of Good Housekeeping Magazine, dated May 16, 1944, saying: "Praise so exquisitely administered as yours would satisfy even the most conceited of men, and not embarrass even the most modest! ... I have been revolving in my mind the theme of the Lady and how to define her. The difficulty of course is that she's so definitely indefineable, isn't she?"
With a loosely-inserted two page letter, with envelope, from Max Beerbohm to Margaret Cousins of Good Housekeeping Magazine, dated May 16, 1944, saying: "Praise so exquisitely administered as yours would satisfy even the most conceited of men, and not embarrass even the most modest! ... I have been revolving in my mind the theme of the Lady and how to define her. The difficulty of course is that she's so definitely indefineable, isn't she?"