Inscribed with ALS
Sonnets.
London: The Academy Publishing Company, 1909.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed with ALS. Original paper-covered boards. Light wear to extremities. In half brown morocco clamshell box. NCBEL III:623.
Item #261210
Inscribed on the verso of the half-title: “Alexander Tucker from Alfred Douglas July 1909.” With an ALS to Tucker from Douglas on The Academy stationery, dated July 26, 1909, sending him this copy of Sonnets, and noting, “I think, in the words of Homer, that ‘The wine had gone round a bout our minds’ the other evening”.
