Large collection of works by Walter de la Mare
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Author: De La Mare, Walter
Title: Large collection of works and letters by Walter de la Mare, some inscribed
Place Published: Various places
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Date Published: Various dates
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Approximately 100 books. Various editions and limitations. Various bindings, mostly cloth or boards, many with jackets, as well as a collection of approximately 23 signed letters, both typed and handwritten, and a few photographs.
A large collection of titles by Walter de le Mare, a handful of them inscribed to his secretary, Mrs J. Dagwell. A few highlights of the collection include one of 250 numbered copies of The Three Mulla-Mulgars signed by De La Mare, a collection of approximately 23 short letters and postcards to Mrs. Dagwell, signed by his hand, and a single page manuscript poem, The Leaden Statue, written in his hand. The lot is sold as a collection, and the volumes have not been individually collated. Some titles are repeated. Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners,",and for a highly acclaimed small selection of subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them "Seaton's Aunt" and "All Hallows." His 1921 novel, Memoirs of a Midget, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
Full list of items. 'ND' indicates that no publication date could immediately be located. Some of the multiple copies may be varying edition and states.
Collection of approximately 23 signed short letters and postcards, typed and handwritten, signed by De La Mare to Mrs. Dagwell, discussing social, practical and financial matters, as well as a few photographs of De La Mare..
Single page manuscript poem, The Leaden Statue, written in De La Mare's hand.
Ding Dong Bell - 1924 (5 copies)
Ding Dong Bell - ND
Best Stories of Walter de la Mare - 1941
Eight Tales - 1971
Pleasures and Speculations - ND
A Critical Study - ND
News - 1930 (2 copies)
A Snowdrop - 1929
A Snowdrop - ND (3 copies)
Alone - ND
Time Passes and Other Poems - ND
Self to Self - ND (2 copies)
Self to Self - 1928 (2 copies)
Winged Chariot - ND (3 copies)
Stuff and Nonsense and So On - 1927 (5 copies)
Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes By Walter de la Mare With Illustrations By W. Heath Robinson - 1925
Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare With Eight-one Little Pictures in Colour by Jocelyn Crow - 1936
Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes - 1913
O Lovely England and Other Poems - 1956
Tribute to Walter de la Mare on His 75th Birthday - ND
Poems, 1901-1918 - 1920 (4 copies)
The Sunken Garden - ND (4 copies)
The Winnowing Dream - ND
A Froward Child - ND
Memoirs of a Midget - 1922
Memoirs of a Midget - 1921 (5 copies)
Memoirs of a Midget - ND
Stories From the Bible - ND
The Burning-Glass and Other Poems Including the Traveller - 1945
Imagination of the Heart - 1993
Animal Stories - ND
Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems For the Young of All Ages - ND
Walter de la Mare: A Selection From His Writings - ND
Inward Companion and Other Poems by Walter de la Mare - ND
Miss Jemima - ND
Lispet, Lispett and Vaine - 1923 (2 copies)
The Three Mulla-Mulgars - 1910
The Three Royal Monkeys or the Three Mulla-Mulgars. One of 250 signed by the author. - 1924
Collected Poems - ND
Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes - 1941
Poems, 1919-1934 - 1935
Tales Told Again - ND
Motley and Other Poems - 1918 (2 copies)
Crossings: A Fairy Play by Walter de la Mare With Music by C. Armstrong Gibbs - ND (2 copies)
Poems - 1906
The Connoisseur and Other Stories - 1926 (2 copies)
To Lucy - 1931
To Lucy - ND
Songs of Childhood - 1923 (2 copies)
Lewis Carroll - ND (2 copies)
Memory and Other Poems - 1938 (2 copies)
The Return - 1910 (3 copies)
The Captive and Other Poems - 1928
Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe - 1930 (3 copies)
Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare With Embellishments by C. Lovat Fraser - 1924
The Traveller by Walter de la Mare With Drawings by John Piper - ND
The Fleeting and Other Poems - 1933 (2 copies)
The Riddle and Other Tales - 1923
The Veil and Other Poems - 1921
Walter de la Mare: A Study of His Poetry - 1949
This Year: Next Year - ND
Broomsticks and Other Tales With Designs By Bold - ND
Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter de la Mare With Illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop - 1922
Selected Stories and Verses - ND
Sold For a Farthing - 1953
A Beginning and Other Stories - ND
Tea With Walter de la Mare - ND
At First Sight - 1928
Henry Brocken: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance - 1904 (2 copies)
The Listeners and Other Poems - 1912
Two Tales - 1925 (2 copies)
The Lord Fish - ND
On The Edge: Short Stories - 1930
Poems For Children - 1930
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