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AEDWRIGHT, Ernest Vincent (1873-1939). Gadsby. A Story of Over...
Lot 351
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We are pleased to announce the sale of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine's co-Publishers and Editors, Robin and Kathryn Smiley's collection of modern firsts of literature, mystery & detective fiction, and western literature. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
We are pleased to announce the sale of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine's co-Publishers and Editors, Robin and Kathryn Smiley's collection of modern firsts of literature, mystery & detective fiction, and western literature. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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WRIGHT, Ernest Vincent (1873-1939). Gadsby. A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter ?E?. Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., [1939]. FIRST EDITION of this literary curiosity and legendary rarity. Gadsby is a novel written as a lipogram and does not contain the letter ?e? which Wright ensured by tying the letter ?e? key down on his typewriter. Its plot follows the protagonist John Gadsby as he and a group of youths revitalize the dying fictional city of Branton Hills. ?The rarity is due to one of those warehouse fires that so frequently occur in the history of unfindable books. Wetzel?s novelty warehouse went up in a mighty blaze (a fireman died) along with most copies of the ill-fated novel, it was never reviewed and only kept alive by the efforts of a few Avant-garde French ?intellos? and assorted connoisseurs of the odd, weird, and zany? (Bookride, 24 February 2007). Until today, this is the only copy known to us in the rare dust jacket.
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