NOYES, Alfred. The Loom of Years. London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition, signed with dedication poem in manuscript, 8vo (174 x 114mm.) 9-line verse dedication in manuscript from Alfred Noyes to John Mavrogordato to the front-free endpaper, additionally loosely inserted a 1p. draft in manuscript of the poem, dated 1902. (Spotting and browning to pastedowns.) Original vellum-backed boards (spotting to vellum, dust-soiling to boards). – And a further two volumes by Alfred Noyes, both signed (‘The Flower of Old Japan’, 1903, 8vo, and ‘Poems’, 1906, 8vo), and a small quantity of ephemera related to Alfred Noyes. Note: the ephemera includes 3 typed and signed letters from Noyes to John Mavrogordato and written in 1954 from his home on the Isle of Wight. Mavrogordato was Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford when the men met in 1951. After the death of his first wife, Noyes married Mary Angela née Mayne, the widow of Richard Shireburn Weld-Blundell, who was from an old recusant Catholic family. Noyes had himself converted to the catholic faith of Mary Angela and had written about his conversion in ‘The Unknown God’, 1934. This book had been called ‘the spiritual biography of a generation’. For this reason, in one of the typed letters, Noyes writes about having received a letter from ‘a Mr A.W. Ashby… asking if I can give any information about one of the catholic recusants’, suggesting he was thought of as an authority on this. Also includes an invitation to a dinner at the Hyde Park Hotel to celebrate Noyes’ 70th birthday, and the menu of that dinner. Provenance: John Nicholas Mavrogordato (inscribed to from the author) (3).