Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BOYLE, KAY. Group of 6 Inscribed works. 8vo, original bindings; dust jackets as issued. Vp, vd

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1939. First English Edition (London, 1948) His Human Majesty. New York, (1949) Breaking the Silence: Why A Mother Tells her Son about the Nazi Era. New York, 1962 The Smoking Mountain. New York, 1963. The above four books inscribed to Herbert "Nic" Kubly, a writer Boyle met at the MacDowell Colony when she was 60 and he 47, shortly after he'd won a National Book Award for his non-fiction work American In Italy. She became smitten with him and asked Caresse Crosby to connect them. They enjoyed a deep relationship that was threatened by suspicions of his homosexuality. He would eventually take Boyle's seat as professor at San Francisco State University Collected Poems of Kay Boyle. Inscribed to her youngest daughter, Clover. First wrappers edition. Port Townsend, (1991) This is Not a Letter and Other Poems. Warmly Inscribed to her grandson Devin, with a typed errata sheet tipped to front endpaper and 6 additional corrections to the text in her hand. Los Angeles, (1985).