Item #248345 Suma de geographia q[ue] trata de todas las partidas & provincias dek mundo: en especial de las indias, & trata largame[nt]e del arte del mare. Gertrude Atherton.

“‘The Immortal Marriage’ … is by far my best…”

Suma de geographia q[ue] trata de todas las partidas & provincias dek mundo: en especial de las indias, & trata largame[nt]e del arte del mare.

San Francisco: November 28, 1927.

Price: $300.00


About the item

1-1/2 pp., on personal stationery. 4to. “‘The Immortal Marriage’ … is by far my best…”. Fine. In red cloth folding case.

Item #248345

A fine letter to an admirer from the California novelist, with some revealing remarks: “… As to MSS, I never keep any. Typewritten manuscripts are not very interesting, and go back to the printer with the proofs -- no doubt their final destination is the waste heap. “I am sorry you have not read ‘The Immortal Marriage’, as that is by far my best…” [with;[ an Autograph Letter, signed, to an unidentified author, soliciting a work for THE BOOKMAN. 3pp., 8vo, n.p, May 9 (?) 1944.