Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BOYLE, KAY. Group of 8 works Inscribed to fellow writers. Also includes two titles Inscribed to her by fellow author and San Francisco State professor Herbert Wilner. 8vo, cloth; dust jackets, condition generally very good. Vp, vd

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Published in New York unless otherwise noted. Plagued by the Nightingale. With an ALS to Doris Grumbach. 1931 Year Before Last. Warmly Inscribed to Doris Grumbach. 1932 Avalanche. Second printing. Inscribed to Paul Appel. 1944 1939. Inscribed to William Shirer; additionally Signed by him. 1948 The Seagull on the Step. Inscribed to Edward Blonder. 1955 Being Geniuses Together. inscribed and signed to glenway wescott and monroe wheeler. 1968 Fifty Stories. Inscribed to sisters (authors) Marchette and Joy Chute. Review copy with slip laid in. NY, 1980 Collected Poems of Kay Boyle. Inscribed to Studs and Ida Terkel in a playful crossword pattern. Port Townsend, (1991) Wilner, Herbert. All the Little Heroes. Warmly Inscribed to Boyle by Wilner: "For Kay, in all respect and reverence, and in love too. You're marvelous, and I should like one day to be worthy of it, you" And with an ALS by him discussing his recent novel with Macmillan, among other topics. Indianapolis, 1966 Wilner. Dovisch in the Wilderness and Other Stories. Warmly Inscribed to Boyle. Indianapolis, (1968).