Apr 03, 2003 - Sale 1965

Sale 1965 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DUNSANY, EDWARD PLUNKETT; LORD. Group of 5 Signed items, including a Typed Poem Signed and Inscribed and 4 Autograph Letters Signed, all to the playwright and editor Jules Eckert Goodman. The poem, titled "The Tube," inscribed at the top of page one, Signed at the end and with 3 corrections in his hand. 21/2 pages, tall 4to; folds, the pages stitched togther. The letters concern stories he has submitted or wishes to submit, including "The Man Who Ate the Phoenix." In all, 6 pages, small 8vo sheets, 3 on Dunsany Castle stationery. Ireland, 1948

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The poem begins "An American tourist in London, looking for a guide, sees a tall, cloaked figure beside him. To whom that traveller, 'Say. Who are you?'"