Marianne Serves Lunch

Moore (Marianne). Wilson (Robert A.)  Photograph [Privately Printed for Robert A Wilson], Phoenix Book Shop, New York,  1976 First Edition One of 250 copies   Wrappers Fine copy. Inscribed by Wilson on the verso of the upper wrapper: “For Arthur [Uphill], who sold me my first Marianne Moore book which, in time, led to all this! Bob W.”.   Arthur Uphill (1931-2009) joined the staff of Bertram Rota Ltd. in 1955 and worked for the company as a cataloguer for nearly thirty-eight years. He brought to the company an extraordinary depth of knowledge of the expatriate authors living and working in Paris after 1918 and especially of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett. His expertise was highly valued by his colleagues, fellow booksellers and many collectors. He was Wilson’s chief collaborator in the preparation of Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography (1974), a fact that was fully acknowledged by the appearance of Arthur Uphill’s name on the title-page of the revised edition of 1994. 

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