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ADAMS, Samuel Hopkins (1871-1958). Average Jones. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911.
8o. Frontispiece and plates by M. Leone Bracker. Original green decorated cloth, white-lettered on front cover and spine (slightest wear at ends of spine). Provenance: Stewart Edward White (1873-1946), American author (presentation inscription from the author).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY ADAMS on the front free endpaper: "To Stewart Edward White Santa Barbara Calif 'The Jumping Off Place' Dear Stewart: Some of this you will recognize as familiar in the living: the small section, at least, in the living. And the pleasantest part of the book's toil was the part done at the Jumping Off Place, of many and blissful memories. Wherefore, looking across the distances with face turned to the West (like an inverted Moslem), I salute you and yours. S.H.A." White was an author principally of Western tales, including Gold. He and his wife, Betty, were also Illuminists who had their first experience with the spirit world in 1918. White and Adams coauthored The Mystery, published in 1907 (see following lot). Queen's Quorum 48.
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY ADAMS on the front free endpaper: "To Stewart Edward White Santa Barbara Calif 'The Jumping Off Place' Dear Stewart: Some of this you will recognize as familiar in the living: the small section, at least, in the living. And the pleasantest part of the book's toil was the part done at the Jumping Off Place, of many and blissful memories. Wherefore, looking across the distances with face turned to the West (like an inverted Moslem), I salute you and yours. S.H.A." White was an author principally of Western tales, including Gold. He and his wife, Betty, were also Illuminists who had their first experience with the spirit world in 1918. White and Adams coauthored The Mystery, published in 1907 (see following lot). Queen's Quorum 48.