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Richard Llewelyn. How Green was My Valley. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., [1939]....
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Author's own signed corrected proof copy, with extensive corrections in the author's hand
Richard Llewelyn. How Green was My Valley. London:
Michael Joseph Ltd., [1939].8vo. Publisher's green printed wrappers, spine printed with "Proof Copy," text printed on proofing paper. Quarter crushed morocco folding case, stamped in gilt.
AUTHOR'S CORRECTED PROOF COPY, HEAVILY ANNOTATED AND SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE, "Richard Llewelyn / July 1939."
Corrections throughout in red ink, blue ink, black ink, blue pencil, and graphite pencil. Various rubber-stamps on front wrapper, half-title, title page, and dedication page from press and composing departments, including "Composing Dept. 10 Aug. 1939" on all four pages listed above. The front wrapper, printed with "Uncorrected Proof Copy on Proofing Paper," has been amended in blue ink to read: "Corrected Proof Copy."
Red ink and pencil edits include copyedits and corrections to printing errors. Corrections throughout in blue ink, black ink, and blue pencil, presumably in Llewelyn's hand, include expanding and clarifying text, changes to place and character names and spellings, and other general revisions. The verso of the half-title contains three "note[s] for printer" from the author regarding the Welsh language. The author has made stylistic changes to the design of the title page and written: "PLEASE / REVISE / TITLE PAGE."
Many of the author's revisions include changes to place names that generalize the setting of the novel and, in doing so, change the novel's meaning. A boarding house in Porthcawl becomes "on the coast"; the site of the steelworks, once Port Talbot, is now unspecified (p. 133); Porth becomes "at home" (p. 522); "a coal-yard in Cardiff" becomes "a coal-yard somewhere" (p. 585).
Condition: Spine toned, some wear to wrappers, a few minor chips. Some spots and minor soiling throughout.
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1969, lot 560; acquired from the above by John Wilson; offered Sotheby's, London, 23 July 1976, lot 115; George S. MacManus, Philadelphia, 1981, Catalogue 257; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1988, lot 99; Chase J. Sawyer, London, 1989, Catalogue New Series 8; acquired from Howard S. Mott, Inc., Sheffield, Massachusetts, acquisition date unknown. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 June 27 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part I, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6295 (go to Auction Home page)
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