TENNANT (STEPHEN) The Bird's Fancy Dress Ball. Drawings, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, illustrations by the author, publisher's wrappers with printed label on upper cover, light fading, short tear to upper margin of upper wrapper, 8vo, [Printed for the Dorian Leigh Galleries by the Pelican Press], [1921]; Leaves from a Missionary's Notebook, NUMBER 11 OF 125 SIGNED COPIES 'SPECIALLY PRINTED ON VELLUM PAPER', small loss to spine ends of dust-jacket, [1929]; idem, trade edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Harry from Stephen with much love, Easter 1954' above a quotation from the Spanish opera singer La Belle Otero, [1929], illustrations, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets (spines toned), large 8vo, Secker & Warburg; My Brother Aquarius. Poems, 2 copies, BOTH AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES INSCRIBED, one for James Stern's wife Tania ('a beautiful friend', and quotes from Shakespeare and Sarah Bernhardt), the other to the publisher Norah Smallwood (with loosely inserted 2-page note including several poems, one titled 'Henry James', one 'The Genius of Jane Austen. Who can castigate her wit? - When she made so light of it?'), both signed and dated Wilsford Manor, 1973), publisher's cloth, one in pictorial dust-jacket, small 4to, Nash Publications, 1961; Some Poems for the Friends of Stephen Tennant, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To Darling Violet from S. Spring 1963', and with various other quotations, and one-word manuscript correction to the poem 'Autumn Rhapsody (for Violet), Nash Publications, 1962; Exhibition of Paintings and Fantasies by Stephen Tennant at the Sagittarius Gallery, 3 copies, EACH INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, one to 'Violet', one to James Laughlin, one to Norah Smallwood (this with numerous additional quotations on the title-page and inside upper cover, and with a 2-page autograph letter signed and dated 24 January 1973, mostly discussing poetry, '...I think today people like dry, shrewd, terse poems - even stark realism...'), publisher's pictorial wrappers, small 4to, Rome, Sagittarius Gallery, 1961; and miscellaneous other Tennant items, including 2 2-page autograph letters signed (both March 1952), a postcard-size albumen print portrait of Tennant in elegant dress and earrings, a signed exhibition invitation, etc. (collection) Footnotes: 'The Genius of Jane Austen. Who can castigate her wit? - When she made so light of it?') - A collection of inscribed books, autograph letters, manuscript poems and ephemera by Stephen Tennant. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing