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242 - Ford (Ford Madox) "Ford Madox Hueffer". The Soul of London, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the "Ford Madox Hueffer" to Joseph Conrad dated 5th May 1906, additional signed presentation inscription from "Ford Madox Ford" to Jeanne Robert Foster dated 15th December 1926 with a Latin inscription "Habent sua fata [libri]" on front free endpaper, publisher's 4pp. advertisement for Autumn 1915 loosely inserted (lightly toned), small ownership label on front pastedown, light toning to endpapers, light scattered spotting to front and end, original boards, a few light scuff marks, spine sunned, joints and extremities fractionally rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, 1905.
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Ford (Ford Madox) "Ford Madox Hueffer". The Soul of London, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the "Ford Madox Hueffer" to Joseph Conrad dated 5th May 1906, additional signed presentation inscription from "Ford Madox Ford" to Jeanne Robert Foster dated 15th December 1926 with a Latin inscription "Habent sua fata [libri]" on front free endpaper, publisher's 4pp. advertisement for Autumn 1915 loosely inserted (lightly toned), small ownership label on front pastedown, light toning to endpapers, light scattered spotting to front and end, original boards, a few light scuff marks, spine sunned, joints and extremities fractionally rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, 1905. *** A remarkable association copy inscribed twice by the author: first to his close friend and literary collaborator Joseph Conrad in the month of publication, and subsequently to Jeanne Robert Foster. Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970): an American occultist and poet from the Adirondack Mountains. She was the New York editor of the Transatlantic Review while Ford Madox Ford was the London editor. Foster was friends with Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, John Quinn, and developed a relationship with Aleister Crowley.
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