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Lot 358: 153 LETTERS FROM W.H. HUDSON EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BY EDWARD GARNETT. LONDON: NONESUCH PRESS, 1923

Est: £800 GBP - £1,200 GBP
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 15, 2014

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Description

8vo, first edition, number 888 of 1000 copies, original buckram boards, paper spine label, with a lithograph portrait of Hudson by W. Rothenstein and related text loosely inserted, sunned [with, tipped-in on front free endpapers:] Conrad, Joseph, autograph letter signed, to Edward Garnett, thanking him for sending an inscribed copy of his volume of Hudson's letters and praising Garnett's introduction ("...It is the most touching and penetrating appreciation of a personality that I have ever read..."), 2 pages, 4to, headed stationery of Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 20 September 1923

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Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 247

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