BEERBOHM MAX Autograph Manuscript Signed thrice complete dra

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BEERBOHM, MAX. Autograph Manuscript Signed, thrice, complete draft of his essay "Laughter," with numerous holograph deletions and a few additions throughout, published in 1921 as part of his collection entitled And Even Now. Signed in the byline at the top of first page, additionally initialed after each of two holograph notes on the first page: "To Printer: Please follow my punctuation exactly, throughout," and "But put single quotation marks. Double ones only for quotes-within-quotes." 8 1/2 pages, small folio, written on rectos only; paperclip stains at upper edge of first and terminal pages, small hole at upper left throughout with minor loss to text, minor even toning and scattered soiling to first page, horizontal fold. (MRS) Np, 1920

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"M. Bergson, in his well-know essay on this theme, says . . . . well, he says many things; but none of these, though I have just read them, do I clearly remember, nor am I sure that in the act of reading I understood any of them. That is the worse of these fashionable philosophers--or rather, the worse of me. . . ."