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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1934. First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. 68 pages. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine titled in gilt. Minor extremity wear. Jacket has edge chipping along top of both panels, a 1" x 1/2" chip along spine near head, closed tear along lower joint fold, chips to fore corner tips.. Three lectures delivered by Eliot at the University of Virginia in 1933--The Page-Barbour Lectures that year. He asserts that the weakness of modern literature is a religious weakness. <br /> <br /> This copy is signed and dated 22 May 1947 by Eliot on the title page.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 112 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Boards somewhat bowed. Hinges sound. Jacket has a few chips at extremities and browning to spine.. A scarce drinking guide, published the year Prohibition was repealed. Separate sections for beer, wine, and cocktails with mixing instructions for the latter. Particular attention is also given to what foods should be served with each kind of drink, with simple directions for canapes, relishes, spreads, and supper dishes. A note on the front jacket flap describes the book's binding as "waterproof and, within reason, liquor proof.

[Bruceton Mills]: Old Hemlock, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 182 pages. Fine. Bound in light brown leatherette with gilt-stamped title to spine and upper board, dark brown endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark.. Black & white drawings. Sketches from the gun diaries of George Bird Evans, who was one of the world's foremost authorities on upland gunning and bird dogs. He perfected the Old Hemlock line of English Setters, the descendants of which are much prized for their birding abilities. This is copy #73 of an edition of 1500, with an inscription signed and dated by Evans in year of publication at Old Hemlock--his estate in West Virginia.. Signed by Author.

1941. #10 of 10. Photograph mounted on board. Photograph has some silvering, and the mount has some old dampstains.. Black and white photograph. 1931 Walker Evans photograph, sometimes known as "Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts," printed by Evans in 1941 for the exhibition "American Photographs at $10" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. SIGNED twice on the mount by Evans. <br /> <br /> The exhibition was aimed at promoting photography as an art form to the general American public, and helping photographers to sell their work as such. Nine American photographers agreed to participate, submitting a single photograph each to the show. They included Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, among the others. The Museum asked each of the nine to print 10 duplicates of their featured photograph, and these would be available for sale to the public for $10 each. <br /> <br /> The present print is number 10 of this series of 10 printed by… Read More