MANNING, FREDERICK] The Middle Parts of Fortune . London: Piazza Press, 1929. First edition, one of 520 copies, inscribed in ink "For Olivia Shakespear/Private 19022/come avesse lo Inferno in gran/dispitto/Jun 1930." (Private 19022 was Manning, the quotation Dante's Inferno Canto X, 34). Two volumes, publisher's brown cloth, slipcased. 5 x 7 1/2 inches (13 x 19 cm); [8] pp., 453 pp. Spines a little darkened, light rubbing. Manning probably knew Olivia Shakespear through Ezra Pound, who had befriended him after the publication of Manning's 1909 Scenes & Portraits, hence the intriguing dedication to this copy. Written by Manning at the behest of the publisher Peter Davies and issued anonymously, it was swiftly recognized as the finest novel of the Great War. C Estate of Omar Shakespear Pound
MANNING, FREDERICK] The Middle Parts of Fortune . London: Piazza Press, 1929. First edition, one of 520 copies, inscribed in ink "For Olivia Shakespear/Private 19022/come avesse lo Inferno in gran/dispitto/Jun 1930." (Private 19022 was Manning, the quotation Dante's Inferno Canto X, 34). Two volumes, publisher's brown cloth, slipcased. 5 x 7 1/2 inches (13 x 19 cm); [8] pp., 453 pp. Spines a little darkened, light rubbing. Manning probably knew Olivia Shakespear through Ezra Pound, who had befriended him after the publication of Manning's 1909 Scenes & Portraits, hence the intriguing dedication to this copy. Written by Manning at the behest of the publisher Peter Davies and issued anonymously, it was swiftly recognized as the finest novel of the Great War. C Estate of Omar Shakespear Pound
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