BERRYMAN JOHN Stephen Crane

Sale 2462 - Lot 16

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BERRYMAN, JOHN. Stephen Crane. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped maroon buckram; dust jacket, spine panel faded with shallow chip to head and foot, short closed tears and creasing, surface scratches; endpapers unevenly toned. [New York]: William Sloane Associates, (1950)

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first edition, inscribed and signed by the author to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Smillie, listed second in the paragraph-long list of people Berryman recognizes as indebted to in his preface. An ancestor of the Smillie's, Lily Brandon Munroe, was an early love interest of Crane's. The inscription reads: "To Mr. & Mrs. Smillie / with very many thanks / for a kindness and / hospitality & the return / of a shabby but fairly warm / topcoat / Best / John Berryman / 21 Nov. 1950 / I think you will find the chronology / of your letters more or less right-- / they are much earlier than Mrs. / Smillie Senior thought."