Fine Books & Manuscripts, and the Dornish Collection of Children's Book Art
Thu, Jan 16, 2025 12:00PM EST
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Lot 161
[GREENE, Graham (1904-1991), association]. ALLINGHAM, Willi...
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[GREENE, Graham (1904-1991), association]. ALLINGHAM, William (1824-1889). William Allingham?s Diary. Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. Fontwell: Centaur Press Ltd., [1967]. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. 404 pp. Publisher?s full blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, publisher?s unclipped (??5.5.0. net?) dust jacket (faint offsetting and soiling to endleaves; jacket toned, rubbed, faint occasional soiling). Near fine. FIRST EDITION THUS, WITH A GIFT INSCRIPTION BY GREENE TO HIS PUBLISHER ON THE FFEP: ?For Pat + Frank [?], after a lovely holiday in Barbados [?] in the hope that you?ll enjoy it as much as I did. with love, Graham.? Allingham was a well-regarded Irish poet; this diary recalls encounters with Tennyson and Thomas Carlyle.
