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WESCOTT, Glenway (1901-1987). A Calendar of Saints For Unbelievers. Paris: Harrison, 1932.
8o. Illustrations of the signs of the Zodiac by Pavel Tchelitchew. Half russet morocco, black morocco spine labels, t.e.g., others uncut (boards slightly rubbed); board slipcase; quarter morocco slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number XXXIX of 40 copies on Pannekoek white pure-rag paper from a total edition of 756 and signed by Wescott, Monroe Wheeler, Barbara Harrison, and Pavel Tchelitchew. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Westcott to Jane Engelhard on the half-title page: "With belief and with love, to St. Clare's Jane, at Cragwood, at midnight between May thirty-first and June first 1975 Glenway." [Laid-in] Autograph letter signed from Wescott to Monroe Wheeler, Rosemont, New Jersey, 1 April 1976. 14 pages, 4to. An extensive letter in which Wescott explains to Wheeler, with whom he had a decades long relationship, the histories behind Calendar of Saints and Fear and Trembling.
[With:] 13 additional works by Wescott and one typed letter signed, including: Apartment in Athens. New York, 1945. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Wescott to Carl Malouf with a later inscription from Wescott to Jane Engelhard. -- Fear and Trembling. New York, 1932. Unbound. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 6 of 40 copies. -- and 11 others, 8o-2o, condition varies, all in quarter morocco slipcases. (15)
8o. Illustrations of the signs of the Zodiac by Pavel Tchelitchew. Half russet morocco, black morocco spine labels, t.e.g., others uncut (boards slightly rubbed); board slipcase; quarter morocco slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number XXXIX of 40 copies on Pannekoek white pure-rag paper from a total edition of 756 and signed by Wescott, Monroe Wheeler, Barbara Harrison, and Pavel Tchelitchew. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Westcott to Jane Engelhard on the half-title page: "With belief and with love, to St. Clare's Jane, at Cragwood, at midnight between May thirty-first and June first 1975 Glenway." [Laid-in] Autograph letter signed from Wescott to Monroe Wheeler, Rosemont, New Jersey, 1 April 1976. 14 pages, 4to. An extensive letter in which Wescott explains to Wheeler, with whom he had a decades long relationship, the histories behind Calendar of Saints and Fear and Trembling.
[With:] 13 additional works by Wescott and one typed letter signed, including: Apartment in Athens. New York, 1945. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Wescott to Carl Malouf with a later inscription from Wescott to Jane Engelhard. -- Fear and Trembling. New York, 1932. Unbound. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 6 of 40 copies. -- and 11 others, 8o-2o, condition varies, all in quarter morocco slipcases. (15)