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MAXWELL, William (1908-2000). Pair of Inscribed Titles, including: They Came Like Swallows. London: Michael Joseph, Ltd., [1937]. 8vo. [218] pp. Publisher’s green cloth backstrip over patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt, unclipped dust jacket (cloth binding toned, rubbed, headcap chipped; jacket chipped, torn, soiled). Good. FIRST U.K. EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MAXWELL ON THE FFEP: “September 1937 For Mary with my love Billie Maxwell”. And: The Folded Leaf. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 8vo. [311] pp. Publisher’s full light brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in light blue, unclipped dust jacket (some rubbing, toning to cloth spine, jacket toned, worn, with some marginal chipping and short tears). Good. EIGHTH EDITION, WITH A SIGNED QUOTE FROM THIS BOOK ON THE HALF-TITLE: “To know the world’s injustice requires only a small amount of experience…” With the bookplate of Wesley S. Griswold, copy editor at The New Yorker. Maxwell was the longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, known for his mentoring and championing of younger writers. Some of the writers he mentored included Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and more.