Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[LINCOLN, Abraham]. DRINKWATER, John (1882?1937). A Play? London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. 8vo. Original red printed wrappers, printed paper spine label; morocco?backed folding box gilt. Provenance: Richard Wayne (bookplate); Edith Barbara Tranter (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO RICHARD WAYNE BY THE AUTHOR. The play premiered in England in 1918 and was Drinkwater?s first major success. The play was adapted in to a two?reel sound film by Lee De Forest, and again starred Frank McGlynn as Lincoln. [With:] a TLS (14 December 1929) and original mailing envelope from Drinkwater to Charles Wilson discussing Mr. Wilson?s attempt to recreate the play and the fee it will cost him.