Lot 102
Beerbohm (Max) Seven Men, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to John Drinkwater, autograph poem by Beerbohm initialled to Drinkwater, 1919
Hammer Price: £800
Description
Beerbohm (Max) Seven Men, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "John Drinkwater's copy - the one I would have given him had I been in England, and which he, being in England, foolishly bought. Max Beerbohm" to front free endpaper, light browning to text, autograph poem initialled by Beerbohm to Drinkwater laid onto front pastedown, ink ownership inscription of Drinkwater to front free endpaper (with his initialled pencil comments below) and his morocco book label to front pastedown, original cloth, faint ring marks to upper cover, spine darkened, slight fraying to spine tips and corners, extremities rubbed, preserved in red morocco drop-back box, 8vo, 1919.
⁂ A superb association copy of this short story collection, inscribed from Max to John Drinkwater and with a humorous poem by him about their mutual friend William Rothenstein titled "Lines on a Certain Friend's Great Talent for Swift Philosophical Generalisation". Rothenstein was the model for the central character in the eponymous first story of the present work, "Enoch Soames".
Description
Beerbohm (Max) Seven Men, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "John Drinkwater's copy - the one I would have given him had I been in England, and which he, being in England, foolishly bought. Max Beerbohm" to front free endpaper, light browning to text, autograph poem initialled by Beerbohm to Drinkwater laid onto front pastedown, ink ownership inscription of Drinkwater to front free endpaper (with his initialled pencil comments below) and his morocco book label to front pastedown, original cloth, faint ring marks to upper cover, spine darkened, slight fraying to spine tips and corners, extremities rubbed, preserved in red morocco drop-back box, 8vo, 1919.
⁂ A superb association copy of this short story collection, inscribed from Max to John Drinkwater and with a humorous poem by him about their mutual friend William Rothenstein titled "Lines on a Certain Friend's Great Talent for Swift Philosophical Generalisation". Rothenstein was the model for the central character in the eponymous first story of the present work, "Enoch Soames".
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