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1. SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Counter-Attack and Other Poems. New York: E.P. Dutton, [1918].

2. SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967). Smoke and Steel. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Presentation copy, inscribed: "This one for John A. Lomax and in gratitude for good songs - Carl Sandburg Austin, Texas April, 1921." With the ink stamp of "J. Lomax" on the front pastedown. (Top third of backstrip missing.)

3. HOWARD, Brian (1905-1958). The Eton Candle. Volume One. Eton: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, 1922. Presentation copy for Aldous Huxley, inscribed: "To Mr. Aldous Huxley, with the compliments and admiration of the editor Brian Howard" and with Huxley's bookplate. Quarto.

4. CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Knopf, 1927. The author Paul Horgan's copy, with his ownership signature with small drawing and 2 bookplates. Horgan won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1975 biography, Lamy of Santa Fe. It told the true story of the missionary who inspired Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop.

5. CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri (1908-2004). The Decisive Moment. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Quarto. Dust jacket after Henri Matisse (worn).

6. LEE, Harper (1926-2016). To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott, [1960]. First edition in dust jacket. (Jacket rubbed with some tears.)

Together, six volumes. Octavo except as noted. Original cloth or board bindings; dust jackets where noted. Condition varies, overall wear and fading.
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