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AE. [George RUSSELL (1867-1935)]. The Interpreters. London: Macmillan, 1922. 8°. Original cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. WITH A DRAWING BY THE AUTHOR OF TWO FIGURES, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED 'George Russell AE to Lady Ottoline', all in purple crayon. AE. [George RUSSELL]. Voices of the Stones. London: Macmillan, 1925. 8°. Original cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. WITH A DRAWING BY THE AUTHOR OF TWO FIGURES ON A SHORE, SIGNED 'George Russell AE', all in purple crayon, and MORRELL'S PENCILLED OWNERSHIP MONOGRAM. AE. [George RUSSELL]. The Avatars: A Futurist Fantasy. London: Macmillan, 1933. 8°. Original cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED 'Dear Lady Ottoline this may amuse you when the real master of fantasy is in USA'. The volume is dedicated to that master, W. B. Yeats, whom Ottoline Morrell considered the only genius among her friends. 'WBY came when I had a group of starlings to meet him, with the one old dove AE', she wrote in 1933 of an occasion four years before when the starlings had included John Sparrow, Stephen Spender, Herbert Read and David Cecil (Miranda Seymour, Life on a Grand Scale , p. 405). AE. [George RUSSELL]. Some Passages from the Letters of AE to W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1936. 8°. Title page device, preliminary note and colophon printed in red. Original blue paper boards, buff linen spine with paper label, tissue-paper dust-jacket, unopened. AE was one of the most frequent guests at Morrell's parties. Spender recalled 'Lady Ottoline's Thursdays were often very crowded. Some of the guests attended regularly, in particular two Irish poets, George Russell (AE) and James Stephens' ( World Within World , p.163). (4)