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BENNETT, Arnold -- MOORE, George Augustus (1855-1933). The Coming of Gabrielle. A Comedy. London: printed privately for subscribers only by Cumann Sean-Eolais na h-Eireann, 1918. 8° (226 x 135mm). Original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket (discoloured). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscribed on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett. In friendship and fellowship, George Moore December 15th 1920') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 200, to Hill for £10 -- Frank Hogan (bookplate). Number 188 of 1000 copies signed by the author. FIRST EDITION. Gilcher A39.
MOORE, G.A. A Mummer's Wife. London: Heinemann, 1918. 8° (188 x 120mm). Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscription on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett in memory of his first visit to 121 Ebury Street. George Moore, Jan 10th 1921') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 197, to Hill for £9 -- Frank J. Hogan (bookplate) -- John Quinn (bookplate). First English edition of second revision. Gilcher A6-2c. A Mummer's Wife, set in the Potteries in Staffordshire, influenced Bennett (1867-1831), a native of that area. When he set out to write his first novel his aim was to produce a work 'which was to be unlike all other English novels except those of one author' (George Moore). His Clayhanger novels, also set in the Potteries and clearly appreciated by Moore, were among his most successful.
MOORE, G.A. Memoirs of My Dead Life. London: Heinemann, 1921. 8° (225 x 140mm). Inserted leaf with coloured reproduction of daguerreotype of Moore aged 9 on verso, facing title page with woodcut of Moore Hall. Original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket (discoloured). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscription on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett from one who has just read Clayhangers with admiration. George Moore September 1921.') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 201, to Hill for £17 -- Frank J. Hogan (bookplate) -- purchased from Parke-Bernet sale, 10 December 1941, lot 410, $20. Third English (Moore Hall) edition. Number 1020 of 1030 copies signed by the author. Gilcher A29-2d; and another 4 novels, all FIRST EDITIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ARNOLD BENNET, sold at Sotheby's in 1931.
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MOORE, G.A. A Mummer's Wife. London: Heinemann, 1918. 8° (188 x 120mm). Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscription on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett in memory of his first visit to 121 Ebury Street. George Moore, Jan 10th 1921') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 197, to Hill for £9 -- Frank J. Hogan (bookplate) -- John Quinn (bookplate). First English edition of second revision. Gilcher A6-2c. A Mummer's Wife, set in the Potteries in Staffordshire, influenced Bennett (1867-1831), a native of that area. When he set out to write his first novel his aim was to produce a work 'which was to be unlike all other English novels except those of one author' (George Moore). His Clayhanger novels, also set in the Potteries and clearly appreciated by Moore, were among his most successful.
MOORE, G.A. Memoirs of My Dead Life. London: Heinemann, 1921. 8° (225 x 140mm). Inserted leaf with coloured reproduction of daguerreotype of Moore aged 9 on verso, facing title page with woodcut of Moore Hall. Original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket (discoloured). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscription on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett from one who has just read Clayhangers with admiration. George Moore September 1921.') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 201, to Hill for £17 -- Frank J. Hogan (bookplate) -- purchased from Parke-Bernet sale, 10 December 1941, lot 410, $20. Third English (Moore Hall) edition. Number 1020 of 1030 copies signed by the author. Gilcher A29-2d; and another 4 novels, all FIRST EDITIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ARNOLD BENNET, sold at Sotheby's in 1931.
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