(Wise, Thomas J.). Ratchford, Fannie E. (editor).

LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE GUILT OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FORGERS.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 591, xvi pages. First edition. Ratchford's book proved beyond doubt the guilt of Thomas J. Wise as a literary forger and implicated the distinguished men of letters, H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse and thus becomes a necessary supplement to Carter and Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. Jacket chipped with pieces missing along edges and is price clipped..... READ MORE about LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE GUILT OF CERTAIN...

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 32496

(Wise, Thomas J.). Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

A ROUNDEL OF RETREAT.

Printed from the Unpublished Original Manuscript in the Library of John S. Mayfield.
London: Charles Ottley, Landon, & Co., 1950. 4to. cream paper wrappers, stapled, upper wrapper lettered in black. [6]+[2] (colophon with Ashley Library device, verso blank). Printed from the Unpublished Original Manuscript in the Library of John S. Mayfield. Edition strictly limited to about Thirty Copies, printed for Thomas J. Wise. A fine copy. *A hoax, produced in imitation of the so-called 'Gullible Papers' - one of which was also a Swinburne pastiche. This purports to..... READ MORE about A ROUNDEL OF RETREAT

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136974

Yela, Gary E.

DELAWARE COLLECTS, CHECKLIST OF AN EXHIBITION IN THE HUGH M. MORRIS LIBRARY.

Newark: University of Delaware Library, 1991. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 49 pages. Acknowledgements by Susan Brynteson, introduction by Alice Schreyer and individual essays by 24 collectors. A fine copy. Illustrated. Interests include Delaware history, miniature books, literary forgery (especially T.J. Wise), A. Edward Newton by Robert Fleck, etc. READ MORE about DELAWARE COLLECTS, CHECKLIST OF AN EXHIBITION IN THE HUGH M. MORRIS LIBRARY

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 64938