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CRITICISM, miscellaneous -- POWELL, Dilys (1901-1995). Descent from Parnassus. London: Cresset Press, 1934. 8°. Original brown cloth with white gilt panels. The author's first book, concerning modern poets, specifically Ottoline Morrell's friends D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Siegfried Sassoon. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Ottoline with love from the author 25.10.34.' WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR, thanking Ottoline Morrell, with impressions of Virginia Woolf. 'I enjoyed meeting Virginia Woolf. I thought her rather alarming but she was charming to me: & I do think she is beautiful to look at. Also thanking Morrell for her support: I dont believe I should have got my book published without your encouragement and help.' Between graduating from Oxford and joining the books department of The Sunday Times in 1928, Powell served as Ottoline Morrell's secretary and assistant. QUENNELL, Peter (1905-1993). Baudelaire and the Symbolists. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. Tall 8°. Collotype plates. Original olive cloth, dust-jacket (dust-jacket darkened and creased at spine). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed To Lady Ottoline Morrell 'with love from Peter Quennell' and with her pencilled monogram on the upper panel of dust-jacket. SPARROW, John (1906- 1992). Sense and Poetry. London: Constable, 1934. 8°. Original brown cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed To Lady Ottoline Morrell from John Sparrow. MACCARTHY, Desmond. The Court Theatre 1904-1907. London: A. H. Bullen, 1907. 8°. (Spotted and stained). Original blue cloth (dampstained and faded). THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'OVAM from The Author Feb 1911.' With 2 others, one inscribed by Graham Greene (7)