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Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's question...

"Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need"

Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's question regarding the value of Ambler's...

London: 1 November, 1957. "Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need" Interesting letter from Ambler, in answer to the question, "How important to you was your high school education, and is college experience necessary for creative writing?" Ambler points out that in England "there is no real equivalent of 'high school'..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's...

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Collection of 8 letters from literary figures to Dr. Milton Kronovet, V. S. D. C. American Authors

On American Realism

Collection of 8 letters from literary figures to Dr. Milton Kronovet, V. S. D. C.

Various places: 1937-40. On American Realism. The American authors Frazier Hunt, Flannery Lewis, Willen Brand, Rupert Hughes, Bradford Smith, Margaret Ayer Barnes and Hans Otto Storm respond to Kronovet's question “Has American Realism contributed anything beyond Balzac and Zola.” Accompanied by an autograph note signed, "Gilbert Parker” to Schoenwold thanking..... Read More about Collection of 8 letters from literary figures to Dr. Milton Kronovet, V. S. D. C

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A group of letters from American authors consisting of 36 typed and autograph letters and 7...

Columbia Writer's Conference

A group of letters from American authors consisting of 36 typed and autograph letters and 7 cards, signed.

places: 1960-1970s. Columbia Writer's Conference. Much of the correspondence relates to the Writers Conference that Humphreys directed for Columbia University, authors sending in acceptances and regrets, some relate to grants and others from friends such as Leoni Adams Troy consisting of seven cards with notes (some additional leaves inserted) and..... Read More about A group of letters from American authors consisting of 36 typed and autograph letters and 7...

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Revolution in France! [drop title]. American Broadside

Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution

Revolution in France! [drop title].

[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the..... Read More about Revolution in France! [drop title

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Poesia americana del ’900 … introduzioni e note biobibliografiche a cura di Carlo Izzo....

Signed by Zukofsky, Ginsberg, Duncan, Levertov, et al

Poesia americana del ’900 … introduzioni e note biobibliografiche a cura di Carlo Izzo.

Parma: Guanda, 1963. First edition. No. 4 in the publisher’s series “Collana Felice”. Signed by Zukofsky, Ginsberg, Duncan, Levertov, et al. An astonishingly substantial and important anthology of modern American poetry — from Emily Dickinson through the mid-20th century poets, including the Beats, furnished with encyclopedic bio-bibliographical notes by the..... Read More about Poesia americana del ’900 … introduzioni e note biobibliografiche a cura di Carlo Izzo

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Manuscript "Preface" American Poetry, William Bicker Walter

Unpublished Manuscript by an Early 19th Century American Poet

Manuscript "Preface"

N.p. [?Baltimore]: 1822. Unpublished Manuscript by an Early 19th Century American Poet. Unpublished manuscript "Preface" by the American poet Walter Bicker Walter (1796-1823). Walter published one long poem, Sukey (Boston, 1821, with a second edition that same year) and a volume of Poems (Boston, 1821). His portrait was painted by..... Read More about Manuscript "Preface"

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Two typed letters, signed “Jo van Ammers-Kuller” and a typed synopsis entitled “Diana. The...

Two typed letters, signed “Jo van Ammers-Kuller” and a typed synopsis entitled “Diana. The Life of the Famous Sculptress Elizabet...

The Hague: 's-Gravenhage, 2 October 1958, 31st July 1959. ¶The noted historical writer provides more recent biographical information for Hartley. Hartley had enquired how valuable to his creative writing was his formal education. To which he responded that “high school” was certainly important but that he sees “the most important..... Read More about Two typed letters, signed “Jo van Ammers-Kuller” and a typed synopsis entitled “Diana. The...

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The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...

One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife

The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of Mr. Charles...

[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and..... Read More about The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...

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