Joseph Vance. An Ill-Written Autobiography.
London: William Heinemann, 1906.
Price: $750.00
About the item
First edition of the author's first book. xii, 509, [1] pp. 8vo. Publisher's olive green cloth. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed, spine darkened. Embossed "Presentation copy" stamp on title. In a custom red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise.
Item #313924
First edition of the successful first novel by the former potter and stained-glass designer William de Morgan. With a tipped-in autograph letter signed ("Wm De Morgan") to editor Perriton Maxwell, dated August 16, 1915, reading in part, "Did you receive the MS posted to you on the 12th (or 11th: it may have been)? Please send a word on a card" and with a black-and-white portrait photograph of De Morgan affixed to the front pastedown.
