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Amy Lowell. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912....
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Amy Lowell. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.8vo. Half-title. Original cloth-backed gray-blue paper boards, with printed paper upper cover and spine labels.
FIRST EDITION of the rarest of Lowell's works. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ADA DWYER RUSSELL WITH FOUR-LINES OF VERSE on the front free endpaper: "To the new moon shining through / the bare branches & flooding with silent / radiance the little clump of snowdrops / just pushed through the snow. / Ada Dwyer Russell / from / Amy Lowell / Brookline. October 19th 1912." Additionally, this copy has one ink correction to the text on page 23 in the poet's hand.
Ada Dwyer Russell was a character actress from Salt Lake City, Utah, who had previously been married and had one daughter. Lowell met Ada in 1909 following her Boston performance of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Dawn of a Tomorrow. Lowell's best-known works are the love poems she wrote for her partner and with whom she shared her magnificent Brookline home, Sevenels. Russell is reputed to be the subject of her more erotic work, most notably the love poems contained in "Two Speak Together," a subsection of Pictures of the Floating World. Lowell dedicated her book John Keats (1925) to Russell ("To A. D. R., this and all my books"). The inscription date in this copy precedes any of the deposit copies listed in BAL. A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY.
Condition: Spine and label a little toned; slight wear to extremities; board slightly toned at extreme edges; minor soil mark on upper cover. Some slight marginal toning.
References: BAL 12963.
Provenance: From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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