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Printed Books, Manuscripts and Artwork
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24 Maddox Street Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP ![]()
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Harmsworth (Desmond) Literary Archive, Harmsworth's Poems & translations, including: Up-River; Lyric for a Masque; Poet to a Child; Smoke Goeth Up; L'Heure Exquise; The leaves; Autumn; Thebes; Le Cimitière Marin [translation of a piece by Paul Valéry]; Birth of Aphrodite [&] continuation; Invocation of Winter; Iscariot; The Diver; Rain; Flower-Piece; Neptune Cheated; (some sent as letters); Harmsworth writings: The Nineteenth Century; [Tahitians] and letters from Tahiti; Trinidad; Sex; [Desmond's Dallas Exhibition], n.d.; Others: Allan Huggins. It Ain't What You Don't Know; John Moffitt. The Narrow World, galley proofs (incomplete, with a letter from T.S. Eliot's secretary rejecting them); R.C. Tute, A New Call to Science, n.d.; H.G. Price, Leaves from a Peasant's Diary (4 copies), [1919], manuscripts and typescripts, v.s., v.d.; and a quantity of others, 2 diaries by Desmond Harmsworth on a visit to Italy and Egypt and Palestine, notes on writers, including T.S. Eliot, Moby Dick etc., 1926-76(qty)View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.Similar lots up for auction |




