A Hasty Bunch
first edition
1922] · [Paris
by McALMON, Robert
[Paris: Contact Publishing Co, 1922]. First and only edition of McAlmon's second book, his first collection of prose, and the first volume issued by his own publishing company. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by McAlmon "To Lady Ottoline Morrell from R. McAlmon July 3, 1922." The printed broadside, "From an h'English Printer to an English Publisher," which was distributed with copies of the book, is not present. Lady Ottoline Morrell was the most famous of London hostesses, her house in Bloomsbury and manor in Garsington near Oxford were regularly frequented by the best artists and writers of the period, her guests including T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence, and Henry Green, among many others. Significant presentation copies of McAlmon's books are rare. Spine a little rubbed, with a small chip at the bottom, otherwise a very good copy, preserved in a half-calf folding box. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers. Spine a little rubbed, with a small chip at the bottom, otherwise a very good copy, preserved in a half-calf folding box. (Inventory #: 23022)