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Mountain View, CA, 5 Jan. 1982. Letter. Crease marks from folding. With original envelope. Near Fine. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED of 4 pages. About personal matters but primarily concerned with making corrections in an interview eventually published in the WEBSTER REVIEW in 1985. Adams mentions Kipling, Dickens, Trollope, and others, as well as his being president of the British Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Regarding his WATERSHIP DOWN and a character from De la Mare's THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS, Adams says, "Nod & Fiver are similar in remaining weak, but in developing authority as their story develops. I did not say that Fiver's vision of man derived from the Nod-Andy Battle episode...." Along with a copy of the magazine containing the interview, copies of the interviewer's letters to Adams, and two copies of the manuscript of the interview--one the final copy and the other with some questions and answers not used in the final version.

Basle & Geneva: Galerie Schreiner/Galerie Schreiner-Letu SA, [1975]. First Edition. Hardcover. Some scratches to the covers and rubbing to the front joint. Near Fine. Large folio (18" x 19") in full gilt-decorated and lettered black morocco leather by Zaehnsdorf with gilt dentelles and silk endpapers. Edited by Gerard A. Schreiner. Copy #91 of 99 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page and at the end of the introduction, dated "75." Illustrated with 20 six-color ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS, each individually SIGNED and numbered by Feilding. The lithographs are largely erotically-infused fantastic visions. According to Feilding's introduction, "'The dream of reason produces monsters,' said Goya, and indeed, fascination with the bizarre is as old and universal as the history of art itself. My attempt is to convey the waking dream, looking sublimates the desire to participate, and in the realm of the fantastic, it is a good deal safer."

Alexandria [VA]: J. & J. D. Westcott for J. V. Thomas, 1801. First American Edition. Hardcover. An early owner, Joseph H. Wingate, has written his name twice in each volume, dated 1809. There is also a faint, early ink stamp for J. W. Sewall on the front endpaper of each volume. Closed tear to first volume title page with no loss; text fairly clean. The boards of the second volume are split and holding by the cords. Overall Very Good. First published in England in 1799, this First American Edition is much scarcer. Two duodecimo volumes in 4s (3-3/4" x 5-7/8") bound in contemporary calf leather with gilt rules on the spines and burgundy morocco spine labels; [4], vi, 286; [2], 269, [1] pages with the error in paging in the first volume, page 47 misnumbered 57. Shaw & Shoemaker 577. This early Gothic novel takes place during the Protestant Reformation and tells the tale of a penurious noble who finds the philosopher's stone and an elixir of immortality. It was a source for a somewhat better known… Read More

London: Duckworth & Co., 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing to the front joint, the front cover slightly loose; light wear to the edges and spine. Very Good. Bound in contemporary 3/4 polished red calf leather with gilt rules, 5 raised bands, gilt spine decorations, gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A classic juvenile fantasy involving 3 royal monkeys on a quest. Illustrated with 2 color plates by E. A. Monsell with an errata slip tipped in crediting the illustrator. Quite uncommon.