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GARNETT, EDWARD - Edited and with Introduction by: : LETTERS FROM JOHN GALSWORTHY 1900 -1932. [Ltd,No'd copy - 1309.3,000.]

LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1934.

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UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,Ltd.,No'd 1309/3000,1st edn.[Limited edn,3000 numbered,limited 1st edns,of which 1,000 copies reserved for the United States.] Publisher's original clean,generally sharp-cornered,airforce blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,gilt lettered spine/ backstrip - some dulling and a pair of small spots of sun fading in area of title at head - but gilt still bright,visible and unaffected,with minimal bumping and reciprocal creasing to head+fot of same. Top edge coloured,fore-edge aged/toned withsome sporadic foxing/spotting,lower edges untrimmed; contents generally tight and sound with some random sporadic foxing /spotting scattered intermittently throughout the text and the book. Bookseller's label to top,left-hand corner of a clean front pastedown and free endpaper with very faint - barely discernible - off setting from inner flap of missing dw/dj,rear endpapers with some minor,minimal foxing/spotting - neither hinges cracked or split.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,Ltd.,No'd 1309/3000,1st edn,5-255pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,letters covering the period of 25th Sept.,1900 to Nov.,12th,1932 and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with limitation to its reverse, contemporary b/w portrait photographic frntis of subject, and title page. Letters sent to Garnett by Galsworthy, published posthumously. Garnett worked as an editor and reader for the London publishing houses of T Fisher Unwin, Gerald Duckworth & Co.,and then for Jonathan Cape.He brought together in 1898 Joseph Conrad,an Unwin author to whom he acted as a mentor as well as a friend,and Ford Maddox Ford; they collaborated in the first few years of the twentieth century. He was a strong supporter of Galsworthy, and 'The Man of Property.' in the 'Forsyte Saga.' was dedicated to him He also championed American writers Stephen Crane and Robert Frost and Australia's Henry Lawson,and helped the Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty. Garnett's own play 'The Breaking Point.' was not allowed a licence for dramatic performance in London under the cnesorship system of the time.Its publication was permitted,and in 1907 Garnett published the play,which dealt with an unmarried mother,together with an open letter to the censor.The letter was in fact written by the critic William Archer. This was one battle in a campaign being waged at the time,under the leadership of Bernard Shaw,to free the stage. Several letters included here,refer to this event and includes a suggested letter to the Censor, Mr. G. A. Redford,drafted by Glasworthy. Further letters between the two follow their progress up to Dec.,1907. See also the following three consecutive book IDs' rja953421 - rja953621 for related books by,about or Edward Garnett-related. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p included. Available UK only. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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