Sale 2530 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 20, 2020

129 c   ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. Autograph Quotation Signed, his quatrain entitled “Grace and Strength.” 1 page, 4x7¼ inches; marked marginal discoloration from prior matting (only affecting few letters of text), minor loss to lower left corner, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso. Np, nd [100/200] “Manoah’s son, in his blind rage malign / Tumbling the temple down upon his foes, / Did no such feat as yonder delicate vine / That day by day untired holds up a rose.” 130 c   BELLOW, SAUL. Two items sent to translator Shozo Tokunaga: Autograph Letter Signed * Typescript, unsigned, with over 200 lines of holograph notes. The letter, hoping his notes have not arrived too late, and anticipating a trip to Japan in June to accept an invitation to [the 37th Annual Congress of ] PEN [International, held in Seoul on the 29th] in June, 1970. 1 page, 8vo, “University of Chicago” stationery; faint scattered foxing, horizontal fold. The typescript, clarifying the meaning of various words and phrases from the text of Bellow’s “Leaving the Yellow House” and “The Old System” [probably for a Japanese translation of his anthology, Mosby’s Memoirs and Other Stories , 1968]. 18 pages, tall 4to, onionskin paper, written on rectos only; horizontal fold. With the original envelope. Chicago, 3 December 1969 [1,000/2,000] “. . . I finished my notes. I hope they do not come too late. “I may find myself in Japan late in June 1970. I’ve been invited to attend the PEN meeting in Korea and I’m thinking of accepting the invitation.” A holograph passage from the notes on “The Old System”: “In many myths (see C.G. Jung) Death is represented as a lover or bride groom. In opera, especially of the 19th century, human emotions are grandiloquently expressed. Grandiloquence can sound like parody. . . .” 132 [ see illustration overleaf ]