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NESBIT (EDITH) AND OSWALD BARRON The Butler in Bohemia, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NESBIT "To E.N. da C. Andrade from E. Nesbit. Dec. 27 1910. B.P." on the front paste-down, Henry J. Drane, 1894
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NESBIT (EDITH) AND OSWALD BARRON
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AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY. Scarce, OCLC recording only one copy (University of Tulsa), presumably because the publisher Henry Drane "usually brought out his books in paperback and did not always deposit copies of them in the copyright libraries. This [A Butler...] alone among Edith's books is nowhere to be found" (Julie Briggs, Edith Nesbit: A Woman of Passion, 2008). The recipient of this copy, the physicist Edward N. da C. Andrade, "probably the most intelligent and analytical of her [Edith's] many clever friends" (ibid.), struck up a friendship with Nesbit in 1908, having submitted his poems to The Neolith, a periodical she edited. This copy is inscribed to Andrade on his birthday (27 December), and Nesbit later dedicated her book Wet Magic (1915) to him.
Provenance: Edward N. da C. Andrade (1887-1971), gift inscription from the author. Andrade was a distinguished physician, who worked closely with Ernest Rutherford on his research into gamma rays, and later gained popular recognition as a regular participant on the BBC radio programme "The Brains Trust".





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