Search Results: LITERATURE LETTERS from Gregor Rare Books

New York:: Viking,, 1966.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning to the rear panel. By 1944, Faulkner had published seventeen books including novels, stories and poems but not oneof them was in print and he was considered "finished" as a writer. In early 1944, critic and literary historian Malcolm Cowley had reread Faulkner's works and had begun work on a critical assessment of the patterns in Faulkner's canon of work. Cowley sent Faulkner a letter asking for some information and thus began their on-going correspondence that is here published for the first time. The result of Cowley's revisting Faulkner's writing was a critical reevaluation of his genius.

Albuquerque:: University of New Mexico,, 1996.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Mabel Dodge first met Gertrude Stein in Paris in 1911 and quickly became an avid promoter of her new style of writing. A charged and intense friendship developed between them. In 1912, Stein wrote "Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia," and in 1913, at the time of the Armory Show, Dodge wrote an article that introduced Gertrude Stein to America. The dialogue between these two early and influential supporters of modernism communicates vibrantly about new trends in the arts and about personalities of the period. Presented here is the complete correspondence between Dodge and Stein: 105 letters from Dodge to Stein and 30 from Stein to Dodge. With her connective narrative, Patricia Everett re-creates the rise and fall of a remarkable association between two of the century's extraordinary literary figures, their emotional and practical dependence on each… Read More

Boston:: Little, Brown,, 1953.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with a toning strip to the front and rear flyleaves in a Very Good plus price clipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. This collection brings together 401 letters by the single most influential American writer on the works of other American writers. His short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio" impacted the future work William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Thomas Wolfe.

Austin :: University of Texas Press,, 1995.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu in which to create. These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America. A prolific correspondent, Goyen wrote regularly to friends, family, editors, and other writers. Among the letters selected here are those to such major literary figures as W. H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, Joyce Carol Oates, William Inge, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Spencer, and Katherine Anne Porter. These letters constitute a virtual autobiography, as well as a fascinating introduction to Goyen's work. They add an important… Read More

New York:: Scribners,, 1981.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to the spine. Hemingway biographer Carlos Baker has gathered nearly 600 letters written by Hemingway to a wide variety of friends, enemies, editors, translators and the prominent writers of his time. These missives are both informative and enlightening and show the many sides of the most influential twentieth century American writer.

New York:: Scribners,, 1981.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and slight fading to the spine. Hemingway biographer Carlos Baker has gathered nearly 600 letters written by Hemingway to a wide variety of friends, enemies, editors, translators and the prominent writers of his time. These missives are both informative and enlightening and show the many sides of the most influential twentieth century American writer.

Middlebury:: Eriksson,, 1979.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy with a previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket.. This annotated story of the relationship between Steinbeck and his friend and editor, Pascal Covici is primarily told through their correspondence. Covici was Steinbeck's editor at Viking Press for nearly forty years as is responsible for all of Steinbeck's major books. Their first book edited by Covici was "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1939. Mr. Steinbeck reportedly would often start his working day by writing a letter to Mr. Covici and then carry the theme into his work.

New York:: Viking,, 1975.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. The more than 600 letters collected in this volume of Steinbeck's correspondence were culled from several thousand with the majority of them directed to his agent, a college roommate, and his long-time editor Pascal Covici. For Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on marriage, women, and children; on the condition of the world; and on his progress in learning his craft. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with a 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, Steinbeck: A Life in Letters reveals the inner thoughts and rough character of this American author

London::: Hutchinson,,, 1990... First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This is the first published selection from the huge collection of Wodehouse's letters. Donaldson, who also wrote Wodehouse's authorized biography, has compiled a very informative book. Mainly addressed to a small group of close friends and Wodehouse's stepdaughter Leonora, the letters are arranged for the most part under subject headings rather than in chronological order. They give insight into all aspects of Wodehouse's life and career--including wartime in France and Germany, visits to Hollywood in the 1930s, opinions of other writers, and domestic trivia such as his love of his dogs. The long section in which Wodehouse discusses his own work gives fascinating insight into an author at work and shows that even this most prolific of writers--Wodehouse wrote 93 books--sometimes had difficulty thinking up a plot.