Lot 521
Housman, A.E.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Last poems. London: Grant Richards Ltd. 1922. First edition, first impression, small 8vo., publisher's dark blue cloth, dustwrappers, wrappers a little dusty with nicks at extremities, small bookplate of J.O. Edwards
Footnote
Note: Carter & Sparrow 5. First impression without the punctuation at line 2 on p. 52. Tipped in at the front is a two page A.L.S., dated 28 Oct. 1922, from the Housman to E.V. Lucas explaining at some length his reasons for refusing to do a reading or give a paper to the English Association. "To prepare a paper would be endless labour and anxiety, and the result nothing in which I could take a pride, for I am only a connoisseur and do not mistake myself for a critic." Accompanied by two letters, dated 2002, to Bruce Ritchie from Archie Burnett, Professor of English at Boston University about the inclusion of the letter in the Oxford edition of Housman's correspondence which Burnett was then editing.