BIB_ID
102899
Accession number
MA 1111
Creator
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
Display Date
1913-1914.
Credit line
Purchased, 1933.
Description
1 item (151 p.), unbound ; 25.3 cm
Provenance
Donated by the author to a charity auction sale held at Londonderry, House, London, on Tuesday May 9, 1933 (cat. no. 100); purchased from the London dealer Quaritch, 1933.
Summary
Heavily revised with numerous autograph deletions and alterations, and paginated by Galsworthy. Preceded by an autograph title page reading "Original manuscript of The First and the Last by John Galsworthy." Title page also with autograph notes reading: "The first fifty pages of this ms was written at Wingstone Manaton Devon in the Spring of 1913; the rest at Wingstone in December 1914. The story was dramatized in July 1914, by me. J.G." and "The story is the first in the volume called Five Tales. J.G."
Housed in
Red morocco pull-off box by Zaehnsdorf (27 cm)
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