DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord.

£300 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Georgie from Dunsany, The Elector's Club S.W.1 Nov 12.1950". This title is scarce inscribed.The recipient, Georgiana Buller (1884-1953), was the closest friend of Dunsany's wife, Beatrice. She was a hospital administrator, a disability rights pioneer, and the founder of the first school dedicated to occupational therapy in Great Britain. She regularly visited the Dunsanys and from the publication of Time and the Gods in 1906 onwards Dunsany sent Buller copies of each of his works, signing some and writing humorous verse in others. She was the dedicatee of The Charwoman's Shadow (1926).

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