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First edition of The Room by Eric Walter White, inscribed by the author to the German film director Lotte Reiniger.
First edition of The Room by Eric Walter White, inscribed by the author to the German film director Lotte Reiniger.
First edition of The Room by Eric Walter White, inscribed by the author to the German film director Lotte Reiniger.

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WHITE, Eric Walter.

The Room and Other Poems 1921-1926.

Shaftesbury, High House Press, 1927.

$685.00
$685.00

The Room and Other Poems 1921-1926.

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First edition of this collection of White's poetry from 1921-1926, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper: 'Lotte Reiniger from Eric Walter White 1931 "The puppets' limbs unbend. The scene is set, all bravely lit. You jerk a creaking wire (!) and watch excited longings ache & fret and mimic passions kindle into fire." p.18'

The recipient was Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger, a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and Papageno.

First edition, number 94 of 180 copies, inscribed by the author; 8vo; light age-toning, some offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's marbled boards, black lettering to spine, slight toning to spine and boards, with the original glassine wrapper, torn with loss, else a very good copy.

Stock code 109482

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First edition of The Room by Eric Walter White, inscribed by the author to the German film director Lotte Reiniger.

The Room and Other Poems 1921-1926.

$685.00
$685.00

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