Siegfried Sassoon's copy of the first, unexpurgated issue of Robert Graves's Good-bye To All That (1929), annotated and with clippings. Sassoon's annotations include personal comments, many critical, and factual corrections, most relating to Graves's account of his service in the war. Clippings, pasted in and loose, include reviews, illustrations, and letters to the editor. With one typescript reply to Sassoon from publisher Jonathan Cape, dated November 1929, identifying corrections to be made, at Sassoon's request, to the remaining, undistributed copies of the first issue.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some clippings in Swedish, Dutch, and French., Purchased from Christie's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2007., Robert Graves (1895-1985), English author., and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English author.
Subject (Name):
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Good-bye to all that., Graves, Robert,--1895-1985., Jonathan Cape (Firm), and Sassoon, Siegfried,--1886-1967.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, English.
Imperfect: t.p. mutilated with some loss of text; p. 83-86 of v. 1 wanting; slightly bled. Bookplate of John Watts De Peyster. and Signatures: [*]4A-D12E8F2 (C1-4 misbound after C6; C7-8 misbound after C9-12); A-H12I10.
Publisher:
Gedrukt by Bastiaen Wagens, boek-verkooper op't Steyger,
Subject (Name):
De Peyster, John Watts,--1821-1907--Bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Dutch language--Grammar, Dutch language--Terms and phrases, English language--Grammar, and English language--Terms and phrases
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Distributed as a supplement to De Stijl and also sold separately., In Dutch, English, French or German., and Issues for 1922 published without numbering but called yellow, blue, red and constitute no. 1-3; issue for 1923 numbered 4/5 and also called white.
Distributed as a supplement to De Stijl and also sold separately., In Dutch, English, French or German., and Issues for 1922 published without numbering but called yellow, blue, red and constitute no. 1-3; issue for 1923 numbered 4/5 and also called white.
Distributed as a supplement to De Stijl and also sold separately., In Dutch, English, French or German., and Issues for 1922 published without numbering but called yellow, blue, red and constitute no. 1-3; issue for 1923 numbered 4/5 and also called white.
Distributed as a supplement to De Stijl and also sold separately., In Dutch, English, French or German., and Issues for 1922 published without numbering but called yellow, blue, red and constitute no. 1-3; issue for 1923 numbered 4/5 and also called white.