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Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Large Collection of Typed and Hand Written Correspondence between Anthony Rossiter and His Publisher with Regards to his Book 'The Pendulum.' Most of the Literature is with regards to the sending of Complimentary Copies from Rossiter to His Friends Including W H Auden, Groucho Marx, Robert Lowell, Saul Bellow, John Updike, James Dickey, John Steinbeck. Also includes a copywrite contract and other publishing matters and addresses of his literate friends. Mainly dated 1969. Anthony Rossiter RWA MSIAD was a British landscape painter who was educated at Eton and studied painting at Chelsea Art School from 1947-51. He was a romantic visionary, a "poet" whose heaven was the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Gnarled hedgerows, tumbling stone walls, broken gates, reflections in water and ploughed fields were all his subject matter. His works also included portraits, most notably that of W.H. Auden. Anthony Rossiter began his correspondence with Huxley and Osmond while writing his autobiography, The Pendulum (Gollancz, 1966). From the ecstasy of the creative high to the agonising despair of depression, The Pendulum was the creative artist's riposte to the cult success of Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus, 1954). Where Huxley induced heightened perception by carefully controlled experiments with mescaline, Rossiter's swings came naturally and without warning. All in good condition with light creasing and usage marks. Ref18838. Signed by Author(s).