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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 303

GREEN (HENRY)
Blindness, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony from Henry, 18 Ap. 27" on front free endpaper, J.M. Dent, 1926; and 3 others by Green, including a first edition of Living (1929), with ownership inscription of Anthony Powell (4)

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GREEN (HENRY)

Blindness, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony from Henry, 18 Ap. 27" on front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, 8vo, J.M. Dent, 1926; and 3 others by Green, including a first edition of Living (1929), with ownership inscription of Anthony Powell (4)

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FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED TO POWELL, with whom he was a fellow student at prep school, Eton (during which time Green wrote Blindness), and Oxford.

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