James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of inventory related to publishing, from correspondence between author and agent, uncorrected proofs, to book publicity. Highlights include ephemera, photographs, and correspondence related to Roger Shugg's time working with Alfred A. Knopf; early letters from William Shawn to his editor at Viking Press, Marshall Best; and a collection of letters from James Laughlin to fellow young publisher Charles A. Pearce, on Henry Miller, New Directions, and the general state of book publishing.
Price: $400
New York: Knopf, 1979. First edition, UNCORRECTED PROOF. With a Typed Note of presentation from the publisher to "Mr. (Benjamin) Sonnenberg", dated 8 Aug. '78 : " ... I swiped this copy from the publicity department the moment it arrived this morning - not even Alfred Kazin has a copy..... Read More Item Details for Lauren Bacall By Myself Add to Wish List
Item #226699
Price: $4,500
New York: [n.d., ca. 1947-48]. A bizarre and notable letter from artist/author Ludwig Bemelmans in the late 1940s when for a time his relationship with Viking was on uncertain terms, and with a remarkable self-caricature: “here comes some weird nightmusic again — I withdraw ‘Holdiady in Europe’ for a very..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“Ludwig”), to Viking editor Marshall Best, “here comes some weird nightmusic again” with obscene self-caricature Add to Wish List
Item #324419
Price: $150
New York: nd. An interesting sheet, with Bradley's address ("Fifth National Bank Building, 131 East 23rd Street, New York") printed on recto, and 'some of the more important of the magazine and commercial commissions handled by Will Bradley" listed on the verso. Some of these included: the typographical make-up and..... Read More Item Details for Printed Resumé listing some of the more important commissions handled by Will Bradley Add to Wish List
Item #55011
Price: $75
New York: Octagon Books. A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First edition, printed in an edition of 400 copies for Edith Scott Lynch. 23 letters (all but one unpublished) from Brooke to Frank Sidgwick, of Sidgwick and Jackson, publishers of Brooke's Poems (1911), his first book and the..... Read More Item Details for Letters from Rupert Brooke to his publisher 1911-1914. [Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.] Add to Wish List
Item #239168
Price: $1,500
n.p: Ca. 1936. Corrected Typescript of a George Bruce “Dr. Corrigan” Detective Story. One of a series published in the magazine: a pencilled note advises: “Get build-up of Dr. Corrigan from first story and insert in proper place.”. Read More Item Details for “Claim of the Little Red Bugs. A Doctor Corrigan Story”: Original typescript of this detective story, heavily corrected in pencil, on 69 pages, approximately 18,000 words. From marginal pencil notations, it appears this story ran in the August 1936 issue of Popular Detective Magazine; there are other printer's instructions, in pencil Add to Wish List
Item #29378
Price: $1,750
Hall in Tirol (Austria) and Berlin: August 1-October 25, 1909. A group of letters by the Jewish writer and philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), then serving as Editor in Chief for the Berlin publisher Rütten & Loening, to a literary agent who had submitted manuscripts of several different writers, mainly to..... Read More Item Details for A collection of 5 Autograph Letters Signed ("Buber") and 1 Autograph Postcard Signed ("Buber"), to a Mr. A. Halbert Add to Wish List
Item #306330
Price: $400
Wirksworth, Derbyshire: Oct. 26, 1832. Bulwer-Lytton, as Editor of the New Monthly Magazine. Interesting missive from the novelist, early in his tenure as Editor of the New Monthly Magazine, coordinating with Hall the mailing of the Proofs with his own plans to travel to Knebworth. "As regards Southern I see..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed as Editor of the New Monthly Magazine, sub-editor and author, to S.C. Hall, concerning proofs Add to Wish List
Item #233428
Price: $5,500
Goleta, California; Northumberland: 1967-1972. Letters to a Young Poet. Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was close with Pound and was associated with Zukovsky and the Objectivist poets. Attention to his work flagged in the post-war years until the publication in 1966 of his long poem, Briggflatts. Wylie, who began his career as..... Read More Item Details for Group of letters to Andrew Wylie Add to Wish List
Item #333072
Price: $3,500
Published New York: Harper's, 1920; ms dated at end of "New York, June 18, 1920." Donn Byrne Manuscript. Second novel by the Irish-American Byrne, who died tragically in 1928. Byrne, although born in Brooklyn of Irish parents, grew up in Ireland and identified himself strongly with his mother country, even..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Donn Byrne") of his second novel, THE FOOLISH MATRONS Add to Wish List
Item #29118
Price: $40,000
August 3, 1950. Published: Mademoiselle, April 1951. Collected in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958). The Mademoiselle magazine file copy, with corrections, later collected in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The Mademoiselle magazine file copy of the typescript, with editorial corrections, of Truman Capote’s acclaimed story, “House of Flowers”, the story of Haitian prostitute..... Read More Item Details for The House of Flowers. Corrected Typescript Add to Wish List
Item #324383
Price: $16,000
Poulton-Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral: 1951-1952; published by Cassel, 1953. First Publication of the Diaries of Lewis Carroll: the Editor's Manuscript. Before the publication of this work, the Diaries of Lewis Carroll had been largely unavailable after their temporary disappearance following the publication of Collingwood's THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL..... Read More Item Details for Editor's Holograph Manuscript of THE DIARIES OF LEWIS CARROLL, NOW FIRST EDITED AND SUPPLEMENTED by ROGER LANCELYN GREEN. Vol. I: 1855-67 Vol. II: 1867-98 Add to Wish List
Item #222605
Price: $7,500
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1983. Robinson, Alan James. MOCK-UP, 41 DRAWINGS, BINDER'S DUMMY. Dummy is inscribed and signed by late David Bourbeau: “for Cheloniidae Press in appreciation for the tremendous boost you’ve given my career by giving me such great work to do David 11.26.82” and “this dummy was made without..... Read More Item Details for [An Odd Bestiary, Or a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals from Five Centuries of Travelers' Account, Natural histories, Zoologies, Etc by Authors Famous and Obscure, Arranged as an Abecedary] A Collection of Artist’s Working Drawings and Maquettes Eventually Published as An Odd Bestiary Add to Wish List
Item #248133
Price: $15,000
New York: 11 October 1903. ‘gone where the woodbine twineth’. Excellent and substantial Clemens letter, to John Y. MacAlister (1856-1925), Librarian and Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a pioneer in education for librarians in Britain. MacAlister was a friend Clemens and a fellow investor in Plasmon. Reading..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed ("Mark") to his friend John MacAlister, on securing the return of his copyrights from Bliss and a guaranteed income from Harper’s Add to Wish List
Item #304226
Price: $16,000
Hartford, Ct: April 1, 1884. Clemens Promises Chatto ‘Early Sheets’ of Huck Finn. Important letter from Samuel Clemens to his British publisher Andrew Chatto at Chatto & Windus — two brief pages dense with early instructions regarding international aspects of the forthcoming publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hartford Apl 1/84..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“SL Clemens”), to his British publisher, Andrew Chatto, regarding the plans for publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Add to Wish List
Item #255954
Price: $1,500
Boston or Kennebunkport, Maine or Dedham, Mass: 1904-1908. An archive of correspondence by the novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Margaret Deland (1857-1945), whose work examined the moral challenges faced by American women at the turn of the century, to James MacArthur, her editor at Harpers. Deland is perhaps best known..... Read More Item Details for Archive of 6 Autograph Letters Signed and 18 Typed (Dictated) Letters Signed, to Harpers editor James MacArthur. WITH: Typescript, "Chapter XXXIII" from The Awakening of Helena Richie, 2 pp, heavily annotated in manuscript Add to Wish List
Item #308370
Price: $350
Irvine, California & New York: 4 November 1966-7 May 1970. A series of three letters from E.L. Doctorow, in his capacity as editor at Dial Press, to Maurice Charney on the editing of his book How to Read Shakespeare (1971). The first letter, dated 4 November 1966, presents the contract..... Read More Item Details for Three Typed Letters Signed ("Ed"), to Shakespeare scholar Maurice Charney Add to Wish List
Item #310209
Price: $1,250
[Chicago]: 26 October 1894. AMERICANS HONOR DOYLE DURING HIS AMERICAN TOUR. On verso is written a poem by attendee Alice A. Russell incorporating the names of the guests, beginning "Why this joyous turmoil? / 'Tis to greet Dr. Doyle! / Oh, who would not hustle / To see Mr. Russell..... Read More Item Details for Signature, "A. Conan Doyle," at the top of a card, followed by the signatures of 17 others, including writer Eugene Field, Doyle's brother John Francis Innes Hay Doyle, writer Alice French alias Octave Thanet, Melville E. Stone, the founder of the Chicago Daily News and his son Herbert Stuart Stone of Stone and Kimball, Publishers, actor Joseph Jefferson, and preacher Frank W. Gunsaulus. On verso is written a poem by attendee Alice A. Russell incorporating the names of the guests, beginning "Why this joyous turmoil? / 'Tis to greet Dr. Doyle! / Oh, who would not hustle / To see Mr. Russell . . . ." Add to Wish List
Item #308416
![Item #334645 P's Three Women [Uncorrected Proof]. Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes, Margaret Neves, trans](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/334645.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649878422)
Price: $100
New York: Avon Books; Bard, 1983. First American edition, uncorrected proof. Uncorrected Proof. Read More Item Details for P's Three Women [Uncorrected Proof] Add to Wish List
Item #334645
Price: $475
[Hopewell, N. J.]: The Ecco Press, -1993. First edition, publisher's galley proof. GALLEY PROOF, INSCRIBED TO JORIE GRAHAM'S EDITOR. Read More Item Details for MATERIALISM. Poems Add to Wish List
Item #329649
Price: $350
London: Heinemann, [1961]. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, of the First British edition (preceded by the edition in Swedish of the previous year). Read More Item Details for A Burnt Out Case Add to Wish List
Item #31378
Price: $4,500
Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies: May 28, 1975. In part: "... The sundry publishing and television folk are really on my ass. Roots has got to be published during February 1976, a week or two before the premiere of the television series that's to be filmed this summer and fall. I'm..... Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed, "Alex" to publisher Barney Rosset ("Dear Barney") on the progress of the writing of Roots Add to Wish List
Item #325674
Price: $2,500
New York: July, 1942. Hammett on Pozner "...the best novel that has come out of this war" A rare and beautiful example of Hammett's hand, and a remarkable sentiment from the author of THE MALTESE FALCON. Hammett responds to the publisher's request: "Vladimir Pozner's 'The Edge of the Sword' is..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Note signed ("Dashiell Hammett ") at the foot of a TLS from David Sablodowsky (publisher) to Hammett, soliciting a comment on Vladimir Pozner's novel, THE EDGE OF THE SWORD Add to Wish List
Item #59054
![Item #329754 THE GREAT EXHIBITION [A Play in Two Acts]. David Hare](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/329754.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681334027)
Price: $185
London: Faber and Faber, -1972. First edition, advance copy; uncorrected proof copy (so stated on front cover), with publisher's complimentary slip laid into the book (listing probable publication date). An elusive proof, especially inscribed by author. David Hare, British playwright, screenwriter and director (for stage and film) was born in..... Read More Item Details for THE GREAT EXHIBITION [A Play in Two Acts] Add to Wish List
Item #329754
Price: $2,500
1906-1927. The archive consists of more than fifty letters, most spanning 1906 through 1909 (and a few later letters, circa 1927), mostly from publishers, literary agents, and authors, regarding the publication of Ella Crosby Heath's first book, 'Henrietta Taking Notes.' The correspondence includes letters from Robert Bridges, George Moore, and..... Read More Item Details for Archive of Letters From Various Publishers, Agents, and Authors, to Author Ella Crosby Heath, Regarding the Publication of her First Book, 'Henrietta Taking Notes' (1912) Add to Wish List
Item #338417
Price: $6,000
[Los Angeles: ca. 1951]. The setting typescript for James Hilton's penultimate novel, published in the US and UK in 1951, and partaking somewhat, in terms of theme and setting, of Hilton's own years in Hollywood. Though the authorial tinkerings with this draft are not large, being limited to some deletions..... Read More Item Details for Original Setting Typescript for MORNING JOURNEY Add to Wish List
Item #39972
Price: $400
N.p: circa 1955. Keller’s intimate, personal account of her relationship with her teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy. The introduction is by Nella Braddy Henney. These galleys are housed in the original box they were mailed in to the actress Katharine Cornell, of Vineyard Haven, Massachucetts. The work was published by Doubleday..... Read More Item Details for Publisher's galleys for Keller's book “Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy” Add to Wish List
Item #11923
Price: $1,250
New York, etc: 1949-1956. In early 1945, Alfred A. Knopf wrote to Prof. Roger Shugg (Princeton class of 1927) at the University of Indiana in Bloomington to offer an editorial job with responsibility for college-level history, politics and social sciences textbooks. Shugg, who had worked for Knopf during the middle..... Read More Item Details for Correspondence relating to hiring Roger Shugg for a senior editorial position at Alfred A. Knopf in 1945 and Shugg’s resignation in 1952 Add to Wish List
Item #260796
Price: $1,750
Cambridge, MA and Norfolk, CT: May 4 - August 24, 1939. Laughlin to fellow young publisher Charles A. Pearce, on Henry Miller, New Directions, etc. A small but rich group of letters from James Laughlin at the outset of his influential publishing career, to Charles A. Pearce, himself about to..... Read More Item Details for A collection of 4 typed letters signed ("Jay"), one typed postcard signed and one autograph postcard signed, to fellow publisher Charles A. Pearce Add to Wish List
Item #311738
Price: $7,500
Various places: 1901-1929. An archive of material related to the writing career of Edwin Lefévre (1871-1943), the famed documentarian of Wall Street in the first decades of the 20th century. Lefévre’s first book, Wall Street Stories (1901), was a series of eight lightly fictionalized accounts of Wall Street operators which..... Read More Item Details for Archive of publisher correspondence and other material related to the writing career of Edwin Lefévre Add to Wish List
Item #307822
Price: $75
Venice, California: September 20, 1967. Lawrence Lipton, author of The Holy Barbarians (1959), a seminal work on beat culture, writes to Putnam's editor Bill Targ to try and interest him in an "anothology of the underground, psychedelic and hippie press and write an introduction for same" Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed ("Larry"), to editor William Targ at Putnam's Add to Wish List
Item #311900
Price: $200
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: 21 August 1933. To the American Spectator. Interesting letter from the French Jewish novelist, biographer, essayist and historian, to the American co-editor (along with George Jean Nathan) of Nathan's newly formed magazine "The American Spectator." "My dear Boyd, "I had promised to give some unpublished excepts from my..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter signed to editor Ernest Boyd of the American Spectator, regarding the possible publication of an excerpt from his unpublished work EDOUARD VII Add to Wish List
Item #218257
Price: $1,750
El Paso, Tex: 16 May 1988. Ken Hubner (1936-2020) was a bookseller, owner of Main Street Books in Germantown, NY. He sent author Cormac McCarthy a form-postcard, pre-addressed to Hubner, asking if McCarthy would sign books. McCarthy responds in a much more humane fashion, and assents. Read More Item Details for Autograph Postcard, signed (“Cormac”), to Ken Hubner Add to Wish List
Item #325613
Price: $400
New York: Atheneum, 1966. First edition, first printing, UNCORRECTED PROOF. Inscribed to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed on the title-page: “for Robert Wilson from James Merrill (via WHA?)”. “WHA” can only refer to W.H. Auden, a close friend of both Wilson and Merrill. Read More Item Details for Nights and Days Add to Wish List
Item #259425
Price: $350
Palm Beach, Florida: September 22 and November 13, 1975. A pair of letters from Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell (1930-2016) to William Targ, editor at Putnam's, in which Mitchell expresses his annoyance at the publisher's failure to send royalty statements for his book Psychic Exploration (1974), and expressing frustration at..... Read More Item Details for A pair of typed letters signed ("Edgar D Mitchell" and "Ed M"), to Putnam's editor William Targ, relating to his 1974 book Psychic Exploration Add to Wish List
Item #311865
Price: $225
Read More Item Details for Annotated Letter to NY Times with note to William Targ, her publisher in her hand , 8 envelopes, signed or re-addressed to Targ in Marianne Moore's hand Add to Wish List
Item #323327
Price: $250
35 West 9th Street, New York City: March 11, 1968. On Richard Wright biography. In full: "Dear Mr. Targ, I am much impressed by RICHARD WRIGHT by Constance Webb - and agonized. Valuable. I thank you and for the TEEN AGE GUIDE! Marianne". Wright wrote Native Son while living in..... Read More Item Details for Typed note signed ("Marianne") to Putnam's editor William Targ Add to Wish List
Item #311868
Price: $550
[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1978]. First edition, uncorrected proof. Proof Copy, Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the first page: “Uncorrected – / I wish I were. / Best / Tillie Olsen.” Silences was the major critical work by Tillie Olsen, addressing “the relationship of circumstance; – including class..... Read More Item Details for Silences Add to Wish List
Item #338594
Price: $1,250
Massachusetts (various locations): 1981-1982. Jayne Anne Phillips, Archive of Correspondence (1981-1982). For the lot of twelve (12) items: 1), 1981-1982. Archive consisting of the following correspondence from Jane Anne Phillips, to small press publisher Stuart Wright, concerning publication of 'The Secret Country' by Palaemon Press: 1) Typed Letter Signed. TLS..... Read More Item Details for Archive of Correspondence From Jayne Anne Phillips to a Publisher, concerning the Publication of "The Secret Country." Add to Wish List
Item #327070
Price: $285
[North Carolina]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1982. Uncorrected galley proofs of the first edition. An early state of the galleys, as the title was eventually changed, a dedication was added and the typeface was changed slightly for the final published version. Read More Item Details for RANDOLPH COUNTY: MITCH [later published as "The Secret Country (Randolph County: Mitch)] Add to Wish List
Item #327069
Price: $500
N.p: [1972]. Pritchett on De Beauvoir on Old Age. Published in the New York Review of Books, July 20, 1972. A sharp and appreciative view of De Beauvoir’s study (“honest and indignant”) of a subject whose neglect is, in his words “scandalous.”. Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript of “Old Age”, his review of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age, with numerous corrections, deletions, insertions, etc Add to Wish List
Item #4832
Price: $4,000
New Rochelle, NY: September 22, [1892]. Remington to His Publishers about Parkman's Oregon Trail. Remington writes his publishers, Little, Brown, expressing his pleasure and thanks for their fine job in presenting his illustrated edition of Parkman’s The Oregon Trail. Reading in part: “I am delighted with it [The Oregon Trail]..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Frederic Remington”), to his publishers, Little, Brown Add to Wish List
Item #260878
Price: $200
31 St John’s Wood Park N.W., [London]: 24 August 1910. ‘the telephone love story’. Author Morley Roberts (1857-1942), to Herbert Greenhough Smith, legendary editor of the Strand Magazine, concerning the fate of a submission “‘Dear Sir,’ the telephone love story”, urging Smith “not to reject it till some sympathetic ‘she’..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Morley Roberts”), to Greenhough Smith, editor of the Strand, concerning “‘Dear Sir,’ the telephone love story” (The Splendid Lover) Add to Wish List
Item #301703
Price: $350
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1984]. Advance uncorrected proof. Kim Stanley Robinson’s first book, a Nebula nominee and the first of his California trilogy. Inscribed by the author on the title page: “for David Hartwell who has done so much for science fiction, from your friend Stan” and signed..... Read More Item Details for The Wild Shore Add to Wish List
Item #352453
Price: $8,500
Most n.p. and n.d. [but Versailles]: ca. 1914. A content-rich collection of letters from the French painter and illustrator Georges Rouault (1871-1958) to the Czech publisher Josef Florian (1873-1941), who in 1914 published the first color reproductions of Rouault’s work. Regarding those reproductions Rouault gratefully writes to Florian in one..... Read More Item Details for A group of 9 Autograph letters signed (variously "Georges Rouault," "G. Rouault," or "GR"), 22 pp, along with several fragments of Autograph letters, 48 pp, to Czech publisher Josef Florian Add to Wish List
Item #310022
Price: $7,500
New York: August 26, 1963. Signed by Salinger, Brazilian rights to Catcher in the Rye. A signed copy of the contract for the Portuguese-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and the Brazilian publisher Editora Nacional, twelve years after the book's original publication. Rights are granted..... Read More Item Details for Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Portuguese-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Editora Nacional (São Paulo) Add to Wish List
Item #311577
Price: $10,000
New York: February 24, 1961. Signed by Salinger, Portuguese rights to Catcher in the Rye. A signed copy of the contract for the Portuguese-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and the Lisbon publisher Livros do Brasil, ten years after the book's original publication. Rights are..... Read More Item Details for Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Portuguese-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Livros do Brasil (Lisbon) Add to Wish List
Item #311581
Price: $10,000
New York: April 29, 1980. Signed by Salinger, Spanish rights to Catcher in the Rye. A signed copy of the contract for the Spanish-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and a Barcelona publisher for a book club edition. The final three provisions of the contract..... Read More Item Details for Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Spanish-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Mundo Actual de Ediciones S.A. (Barcelona) Add to Wish List
Item #311582
Price: $750
[published in New York: PLAYBOY, January, 1966. First appearance of Guy Daniel's translation of Sartre's important essay on Paris under the German occupation, first published in the London magazine, FRANCE LIBRE in 1945; and in SITUATIONS, Vol. III, 1949. Read More Item Details for Typescript of the English translation of his "The Parisians and the Germans" Add to Wish List
Item #62853
Price: $9,000
Most from Chicago: [1930s; last is dated 1969]. Early Letters from William Shawn. Excellent group of correspondence from William Shawn (1907-1992) Marshall A. Best was Editor of Viking Press. He came to Viking in 1925 when B.W. Huebsch was absorbed by Harold Guinzburg's Viking Press and became Chairman of the..... Read More Item Details for Collection of 3 Typed Letters, signed, and 4 Autograph letters, signed, to editor Marshall Best, all signed “Bill” Add to Wish List
Item #325620
Price: $225
London: Heinemann, [1961]. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Earliest state of this posthumous work, which publishes two early novels by Shute: Stephen Morris (written 1923) and Pilotage (written 1924). Read More Item Details for Stephen Morris Add to Wish List
Item #322630
Price: $300
[London: 22 August 1951]. The End of Spark's FORUM. Rare, letter from a struggling young Scottish writer, Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006). After her departure from THE POETRY REVIEW, which she edited from 1947 - 1949), Spark started her own literary magazine, FORUM, whose first number appeared in he summer..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Muriel Spark"), as editor of her short-lived magazine THE FORUM, returning a check to a would-be subscriber Add to Wish List
Item #232103
Price: $750
Paris: July 9, 1947. Steinbeck Cable to Burgess. While Steinbeck is in Paris on his tour of Europe, he wires his friend at the Claridge Hotel in London: "IN REGARD TO STAGE AND SCREEN ANNIE LAURIE IS | THE QUEEN GOOD LUCK - JOHN - " Annie Laurie Williams was..... Read More Item Details for Telegram from Steinbeck in Paris to Burgess Meredith in London Add to Wish List
Item #29905
Price: $5,000
N.p. [New York?]: n.d. [1943-1944]. "With Your Wings" Steinbeck Story of a Black Pilot. Evocative Steinbeck story (or "mood piece") imagining a decorated black pilot returning to his hometown, cheered by his neighbors, and welcomed by his father in the house he grew up in, with the remark: "Son -..... Read More Item Details for Typescript, carbon copy, of "With Your Wings", a WARTIME STORY about a decorated black pilot returning home. Accompanied by a Typed Letter presenting the piece to BURGESS MEREDITH, for a possible reading and broadcast Add to Wish List
Item #29593
Price: $250
Manchester: 21 December 1871. Stewart thanks Youmans for the account of his magazine publication and discussing his own contribution to [“Popular Science Monthly”] which was to be 150 pages of 450 words each. Stewart writes that he thinks that he can have it done within 9 months as it will..... Read More Item Details for ALS to Edward Livingston Youmans the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." Add to Wish List
Item #31433
![Item #225498 Eden Again [Published title: Venus Plus X]. Carbon Typescript of his novel. Theodore...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/225498.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1404754103)
Price: $3,500
[New York]: June 1960. With a note across the first leaf in ball-point pen: ‘Re-titled (by Pyramid) “Venus + X” Published Sept 1960’ and signed by the author (“Theodore Sturgeon”) Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), prolific short story writer, frequently explored gender issues in his fiction. Venus Plus X recounts the arrival..... Read More Item Details for Eden Again [Published title: Venus Plus X]. Carbon Typescript of his novel Add to Wish List
Item #225498
Price: $1,000
Cranleigh, [Surrey]: 1927. A pair of extensively corrected manuscripts by the prolific Swinnerton (1884-1982). "The Chocolate-Seller of Knightsbridge" is a story about a young London woman and a chocolate-seller brought together by a failed purse-snatching. It was published in the November 1927 issue of Woman's Home Companion. The second piece..... Read More Item Details for Two Autograph Manuscripts Signed ("Frank Swinnerton") on the title leaf, complete drafts of a short story, "The Chocolate-Seller of Knightsbridge," and an essay, "Gossip" Add to Wish List
Item #308371
Price: $1,250
various places: c. 1881-1887. An extensive archive in Davenport's scrawling hand, chiefly to Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor, Edward Bok, during his tenure as editor of The Brooklyn Magazine, discussing current and future articles and writing projects for submission. Bok was also the noted editor of the Ladies Home Journal..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letters signed Fanny Lily Gypsey Davenport ("Fanny Davenport") chiefly to Author and Editor Edward Bok ("Dear Mr. Bok") Add to Wish List
Item #257639
Price: $900
New York: December 31, 1945 - January 4, 1950. A nice group of letters by Van Doren full of literary business, written to William Targ, editor-in-chief at World Publishing, concerning titles for World's "Living Library" of which Van Doren was editor. Discussed are editions of Plato, Thomas Mann, Housman, Wilde..... Read More Item Details for A collection of 12 typed letters signed ("Carl" and "CVD"), to World Publishing editor-in-chief William Targ Add to Wish List
Item #311906
Price: $5,000
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1996. Uncorrected advance proof. Signed by the Author. "Infinite Jest" is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it over and over. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball..... Read More Item Details for Infinite Jest Add to Wish List
Item #334730
Price: $850
[Northampton, Mass: 1972]. Pritchett on Wharton: "...the accountant-historian of the smart set ..." A sharp, brilliant, and often funny sketch of Wharton and her set and her art, published in the New Statesman, 22 December 1972. Pritchett does not wonder that Wharton's autobiography was not accepted by English publishers in..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript of his review of Edith Wharton's autobiography (A Backward Glance), entitled "A Fiend for Destiny" Add to Wish List
Item #59956
Price: $600
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition, advance copy, uncorrected galley proof. UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF OF "FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE" Title page has publisher's pencil date, and price, of publication. A scarce title in this advance format (uncorrected galley proof). Publisher's printed label affixed to front cover..... Read More Item Details for FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE: Selected Writings 1894-1940. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim Add to Wish List
Item #338355
