Modern First Editions.- Presentation Copies

A collection of 13 volumes, including: Brokaw (Clare Boothe) Stuffed Shirts, inscribed to first free endpaper: ‘with the admiration (intense) and affection (constant) of his colleague’, New York, 1931; Anderson (Paul L.) Pugnax the Gladiator, inscribed to frontispiece verso: ‘To Paul [...] who should like Pugnax for his slightly sardonic attitude’, New York, 1939; Ruark (Robert) The Old Man and the Boy, inscribed to the front free endpaper: “For Paul Gallico, who came twenty years late to autograph my ‘Farewell to Sport’”, New York, 1957; Bates (H. E.) When the Green Woods Laugh, inscribed to the title page, offsetting, 1960; with others similar, including four uninscribed, original cloth, eight in dust jackets, mixed condition with tears and some loss, significant spotting, v.s. (13)