Together with a quantity of other books from Burra's library, including prize copies, journals, periodicals etc., many inscribed by friends, authors, headmasters, tutors etc. MATHERS (HELEN) Group of 6 works inscribed to the Burra family by the Victorian novelist and Peter Burra's Godmother, Helen Mathers (1853-1920), including 2 editions of Comin' Thro' the Rye Dent & Sons, 1942 and 3 others by Forster signed or initialled by Burra (6)ĪUDEN (W.H.) Poems, FIRST EDITION, Auden's first published collection of poems, publisher's wrappers, defective, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1931-MANSFIELD (KATHERINE) Bliss, signed by Peter Burra, Constable & Co., 1927-AUSTEN (JANE) Mansfield Park, Burra's signed copy, Oxford, 1926 Forster' from 1934 (of which Forster wrote "I read it with pleasure and pride, for he saw exactly what I was trying to do it is a great privilege for an author to be analysed so penetratingly, and a rare one"), J.M. from Luard Pears", Methuen, 1926 together with books on Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Sibelius, William Byrd, some being signed or association copiesįORSTER (E.M.) Abinger Harvest, FIRST EDITION, first issue with 'The Flood in the Office', advance proof copy with publisher's slip, Burra's TLS review from that year pasted in, dust-jacket, Edward Arnold & Co., 1936 The Eternal Moment, first collected edition, signed "Peter Burra", Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1928 A Passage to India, Everyman edition, contains Burra's essay 'The Novels of E.M. December 1966, similarly inscribed on pasted-in slip, sent from The Red House, Aldeburgh, -The Poems of John Keats, inscribed to Burra by Peter Pears "P.J.S.B. PEARS (PETER) Armenian Holiday August 1965, Pears' diary account of a holiday with Benjamin Britten, sent to Nell Moody and her husband John Moody, inscribed as a Christmas present on inserted slip "love from Peter & Ben'", Moscow Christmas.
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Hartrick in gratitude for the testimony of a witness, from Peter Burra, March 1934" Wordsworth, FIRST EDITION, inscribed "Nell with lots of love from Peter, March 1936", Duckworth, 1936-The Lancing Miscellany, 6 issues in 1 vol., includes poems by Burra, initialled "PJSB" in several places and signed by the publisher Simon Nowell Smith, 1926-1928 idem, 12 loose issues dated 1926-1930, plus June 1937, containing the obituary following Burra's death in a flying accident, this issue spotted-A Book of Lancing Verse, contains 2 poems by Burra, 'The New Birth' (1927) and 'The Wishing Well' (1928), signed by Burra's mother "Ella, Xmas 1928", 1928-Oxford Poetry 1930, edited by Stephen Spender, contains Burra's poem 'The Season'', initialled "PJSB", Blackwell, 1930-HOLZMAN (ALBERT) Family Relationships in the Dramas of August von Kotzebue, with Burra's autograph research notes, Princeton University Press, 1935 The Nineteenth Century and After, November 1934 Van Gogh, Burra's proof copy, 1934 idem, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'To Moo with lots of love from Peter" idem, another copy, inscribed 'To A.S. Forster, inscribed "T Balston, with good wishes from PJSB'" (Balston was one of Duckworth's directors who championed Burra), Reprinted by kind permission of. Forster: An Appreciation, loose proof sheets, dated in ink "22.10.34" and marked "URGENT", with editorial annotations idem, reprinted in: The Novels of E.M. 4, with designs by Oliver Holt, untrimmed in publisher's pictorial wrappers E.M.
Association and review copies, literature, poetry, music, drama and periodical works from the library of Peter Burra, including:īURRA (PETER) Baroque and Gothic Sentimentalism, Burra's copy, initialled "PJSB", Duckworth, 1931 Farrago, 6 parts in 2 vol., rare bound issue, initialled "PJSB", contributors including Evelyn Waugh, Max Beerbohm, Rex Whistler, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Richard Crossman, Goronwy Rees and Edward Burra, publisher's cloth-backed boards, Oxford, Simon Nowell-Smith, 1930-1931 another set, in 6 original parts, including the rare prospectus announcing No.
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