![NICOLSON, Harold. Paul Verlaine. London: Constable & Company Limited, [1921]. 8°. Half title. Original black cloth gilt (spine a little faded, stained, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front pastedown, “Maud Cunard with a particular but not peculiar sense of admiration and gratitude from Harold Nicolson, April 1st,” and signed in pencil by Maud Cunard. With 4 other books by the same author, namely Jeanne de Henaut (London, Published privately for the author, Hogarth Press, 1924, with inscription to Duff [Cooper] on title, and a one-page autograph letter from Jeanne de Henaut loosely-inserted), Public Faces (London, 1932, WITH 2 ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK PORTRAITS BY NICOLSON of the character Jane (or Lady) Campbell on the front free endpaper), The English Sense of Humour (London, The Dropmore Press, 1946, bookplate of Duff Cooper, <span style='font-size:9](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_11606_0175_000(nicolson_harold_paul_verlaine_london_constable_company_limited_1921_8120830).jpg?w=1)
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NICOLSON, Harold. Paul Verlaine. London: Constable & Company Limited, [1921]. 8°. Half title. Original black cloth gilt (spine a little faded, stained, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front pastedown, “Maud Cunard with a particular but not peculiar sense of admiration and gratitude from Harold Nicolson, April 1st,” and signed in pencil by Maud Cunard. With 4 other books by the same author, namely Jeanne de Henaut (London, Published privately for the author, Hogarth Press, 1924, with inscription to Duff [Cooper] on title, and a one-page autograph letter from Jeanne de Henaut loosely-inserted), Public Faces (London, 1932, WITH 2 ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK PORTRAITS BY NICOLSON of the character Jane (or Lady) Campbell on the front free endpaper), The English Sense of Humour (London, The Dropmore Press, 1946, bookplate of Duff Cooper, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, “For Diana & Duff, Xmas 1946, from Harold”), and Helen's Tower (New York, 1938, inscribed to "Denis").
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