Letters to Women
Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good / No Jacket. Item #607334
A FASCINATING PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed by author to Colonel William J. ('Wild Bill') Donovan, with a poem: 'Colonel William J. Donovan .... There is a wisdom, Sappho, Which the world counts as folly: it consists In wasting yards of silk to catch one fly... By reason of our beloved Missy Joseph Auslander 14 December 1931.' Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, of which he is considered the founding father.
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