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Douglas (Lord Alfred Bruce). The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas, new edition, London: Martin Secker, 1931, portrait frontispiece, previous owner inscription in pencil of S.G. Leonard, Oxon, 1936 to front endpaper, original cloth, dust jacket, a few chips and tears, 8vo, with a 2 pp. autograph letter to Leonard from Lord Alfred Douglas, dated June 1939 on St. Ann's Court, Nizells Avenue, Hove headed paper, responding to Leonard's letter: "I am not really so much neglected. I got a good deal of praise & a certain amount of fame. The booksellers do all they can to boycott my poetry. Why I cannot imagine. But in spite of everything I have sold more than 10,000 copies of various editions of my poems in the last 40 years, in this country... I think T S Eliot & co are not only vile "poets", but they have corrupted the taste of the rising[?] generation...", folds, original envelope (Qty: 2)