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BENNETT, Arnold -- MOORE, George Augustus (1855-1933). The Coming of Gabrielle. A Comedy . London: printed privately for subscribers only by Cumann Sean-Eolais na h-Eireann, 1918. 8° (226 x 135mm). Original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket (discoloured). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscribed on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett. In friendship and fellowship, George Moore December 15th 1920') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 200, to Hill for £10 -- Frank Hogan (bookplate). Number 188 of 1000 copies signed by the author. FIRST EDITION. Gilcher A39. MOORE, G.A. A Mummer's Wife . London: Heinemann, 1918. 8° (188 x 120mm). Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscription on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett in memory of his first visit to 121 Ebury Street. George Moore Jan 10th 1921') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 197, to Hill for £9 -- Frank J. Hogan (bookplate) -- John Quinn (bookplate). First English edition of second revision. Gilcher A6-2c. A Mummer's Wife , set in the Potteries in Staffordshire, influenced Bennett (1867-1831), a native of that area. When he set out to write his first novel his aim was to produce a work 'which was to be unlike all other English novels except those of one author' (George Moore . His Clayhanger novels, also set in the Potteries and clearly appreciated by Moore, were among his most successful. MOORE, G.A. Memoirs of My Dead Life . London: Heinemann, 1921. 8° (225 x 140mm). Inserted leaf with coloured reproduction of daguerreotype of Moore aged 9 on verso, facing title page with woodcut of Moore Hall. Original parchment-backed boards, dust-jacket (discoloured). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY TO ARNOLD BENNETT (inscription on half-title: 'To Arnold Bennett from one who has just read Clayhangers with admiration. George Moore September 1921.') -- Sold in Arnold Bennet's Sale, Sotheby's, July 27 1931, lot 201, to Hill for £17 -- Frank J. Hogan (bookplate) -- purchased from Parke-Bernet sale, 10 December 1941, lot 410, $20. Third English (Moore Hall) edition. Number 1020 of 1030 copies signed by the author. Gilcher A29-2d; and another 4 novels, all FIRST EDITIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ARNOLD BENNET, sold at Sotheby's in 1931. (7)