1954-1963. Typed correspondence signed simply "Nelson" with the exception of the Christmas card which is signed in full. To poet and long-time friend John Ciardi (1916 - 1986), a poetry editor for the Saturday Review and Breadloaf Writers' Conference director. 1954 postcard from Algren notifies Ciardi he's sending Italian translations..... Item #53851 More
New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person..... Item #30775 More
Cleveland: Privately printed, 1948. First edition. Limited to 200 copies. This copy with TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Mr Alva Bradley to Mrs. Rideout. A geneology compiled for Mr. Alva Bradley, illustrated with photgraphs, maps, and numerous family trees. Green cloth boads gilt lettered on front cover. Near fine with faint..... Item #52475 More
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. First edition, the "Deluxe" limited issue. Copy B of 26 lettered copies SIGNED BY BRINGHURST, WAGENER, and KOCH. Additionally INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST "for Allen Mears, the kind of reader / Parmenides has waited for / 17.1.2004" Although copy B, the colophon is absent the limitation..... Item #55883 More
(La Jolla: circa 1958). Undated TYPED LETTER SIGNED "RAY." To the British mystery writer who was Chandler's London solicitor, friend and frequent correspondent, Michael Gilbert, on 6 x 9" off-white paper with return address of the small cottage rented by Chandler near the end of his life at 824 Prospect..... Item #54900 More
Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2016. First edition. Laid in is a copy of the TLS from Mears to Gioia and Gioa's TLS in response talking about the book. Fine in dust jacket. Some pages lightly dog-eared. Item #55952 More
New York: Random House, (1978). First edition. Bruccoli examines the friendship between Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Terrific TLS from Bruccoli to Paul Zimmerman laid in about Hemingway boxing at "Brown's" (the NYC gym where Hemingway worked out and was trained by owner George Brown), various fighters he saw or remembered, etc...... Item #55550 More
(New York: 1951). First edition. One page on Hughes' personal, printed letterhead watermarked "Old Edgeland Bond." Dated May 8, 1951, it reads in part, "Carl Van Vechten showed me copies of Swanson's 'IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN' and 'PIERROT' the other day, which I had not seen before. I'd love..... Item #56044 More
New York, 1944. One full page, typed letter on Helen Keller's personal stationery; addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Hanson and dated June 24, 1944. The letter, soliciting donations for financial support for the American Foundation for the Blind, is SIGNED in ink in Keller's hand. At the time, Keller had..... Item #49509 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1918). First edition. The briefest of brief TYPED LETTERS SIGNED on letterhead of Chicago Tribune where he worked for years, dated August 30th (no year) "Dear Mr. Hanson:- Sure. Ring W. Lardner." First issue without the poem by H. H. Howland on page 6. Green cloth boards..... Item #55208 More
While Associate editor of Macmillan's Educational Department, Michener suggested Mrs. Ella-Frances Barker as one of the authors in a proposed series of geography books for children. Mrs. Barker did not have time to complete the assignment and, unbeknownst to Michener, turned the project over to her young son. The first..... Item #24926 More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. First edition. Her first book for children, a story revolving around the donkey ridden by Christ into the city of Jerusalem. Illustrations in the text and on the dust jacket by Valenti Angelo, who began his career illustrating for Grabhorn Press. Although no indication in..... Item #55375 More
circa 1970. A treasure trove of research material gathered by Donald McCormick, a Senior Manager at the Sunday Times in the late sixties and early seventies. McCormick (1911-1998) " ...was attracted to controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce. He wrote on the Hellfire Club, Jack the Ripper, the..... Item #56188 More
Washington D. C. April 1, 1983. Single page, TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Herman Wouk; on BSW Literary Agency, Inc. letterhead. To Mr. Frederick J. Green regarding the effect of films on novel reading, "- - as we see in the case of your class - - the films have persuaded..... Item #53031 More