Three Letters (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Away All Boats tells the intimate and heroic life story of the attack transport Belinda. It tells of the ships and men that came in under naval bombardment, that landed our marines and GI's in battle, that took them wounded and dying off the blasted beaches at Makin Island, Kwajalein, Saipan and Lingayen Gulf. It is the Pacific War re-created in its entirety-from the shakedown cruise to the ominous lowering of the LCVP's, from the West Coast docks to the Hawaiian staging areas through the bitter engagements in the Marshalls and Marianas. It will make thousands of veterans of the island-hopping campaign say, "This is it. This is the way it was." And for the families stateside, who followed their men through terrible headlines and letters three weeks old, this is the novel that brings their war into the home. Here is Lieutenant Dave MacDouglall, boat group commander during the first practice landings, then navigator, later executive officer and finally commanding officer after the kamikaze attack off Okinawa. Here are two captains: Gedney, who loved and lived by the traditions of the Old Navy; and his successor, Hawks, who resented higher authority. Here are the men, each of whom contributed his bit of knowledge-or lack of it-to the sum of the experiences, fears and intuitions of the others. Brave men and cowards, strong men and weaklings, worked side by side; and the cold, competent voice of authority which drove them through their paces was often no more than the mechanically amplified voice of a relatively simple and infinitely fallible man who yearned to be relieved for chow. This is the way it was. The assault landings, the task-force maneuvers, the enemy air strikes-even the "foul ups" and frustrations-all are accurate and uncompromisingly true. Accurate, too, are the details of life aboard the attack transport, the overmastering Plan of the Day, the dramatic stages by which Amphibious Operations grew in efficiency from the Gilberts to Okinawa. At first the U.S.S. Belinda was mere machinery. But the sea swells tempered her; the men breathed life into her; the training missions galvanized her men into a crew. Then came the marines and GI's who fulfilled her purpose, the cry "Away all boats," the mothering of landing craft, grace under fire, the thundering beachhead. Time and again the thundering beachhead, until it seemed the Belinda would never stop: she'd go on and on from one island to the next, and the ramps would always be dropping on some far-off coral strand. his is it. This is the way it was." And for the families stateside, who followed their men through terrible headlines and letters three weeks old, this is the novel that brings their war into the home." (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 88 pages. Arthur Koestler "Yoga Unexpurgated" / Boris Pasternak "Three Letters" / William Golding "Miss Pulkinhorn" / Irving Kristol "Some Thoughts on Popular Culture and Popular Government" / Robert Holles "Rge End of 'John Bull' Death of a Magazine" / Patricia Blake !The Two Deaths of Vladimir Mayakovsky". …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 110 pages. Illustrated. T F Powys Three Stories: "Hast Thou Found Honey", "Harlot Honey" and "The Scapegoat" / John Toft "John Cowper Powys's 'Atlantis'" / J C Powys to T F Powys: Some Letters from Wales, 1935-1949" / John Cowper Powys "The Real and the Ideal" / The Powys Family Tree (SL#75/2).…

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Encounter; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Encounter; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. "Three new letters from G M Hopkins to W A Comyn Macfarlane" / Bibliography for 11973 / "Books Hopkins had access to" (SL#130/2).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. "Three Uncollected Letters" / Bibliography for 1971 / Ruth Seelhammer "Musical Settings of Hopkins' Poems: A Checklist" (SL#130/2).

Green Cloth. Condition: Good. None. 1st Edition.

[1989], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 180pp. Illustrated cover, illustrations. Contributors include Isaac Asimov (The Fable of the Three Princesses), Ray Bradbury (The Lake), Marion Zimmer Bradley (A Dozen of Everything), Bruce Coville (The Box), Howard Goldsmith (The Voice of El Dorado), Elizabeth S. Helfman (Voices in the Wind), Madeleine L'Engle (Poor Little Saturday), William Lee (A Message from Charity), Anne McCaffrey (The Smallest Dragonboy), Al Sarrantonio (Letters from Camp), Lewis Shiner (Things That Go Quack in the Night), Jane Yolen (The Seventh Mandarin). Edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Illustrated and Annotated by Larry Elmore. (Science Fiction, Short Stories).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1959 Kerouac, Jack DOCTOR SAX: FAUST PART THREE NY: Grove Press, c1959 Evergreen Original #E-160 First State Title Letters on Spine Measure 6 7/16" Bound in black, red & white printed wraps 8vo shelf wear and creasing, otherwise clean and unmarked.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

828 pages. - Publisher's coöour-illustrated hardcover with matching dustjacket; 8vo.(ca. 23 x 14 x 5 cm; ca. 1,1 kg.). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER ORIGINAL WITH DUSTJACKET. - Dustjacket slightly used; THE BOOK VERY GOOD. isbn 0748101969.

Paper. Condition: Near fine. Handwritten Manuscript. In total, this collection includes 12 legal page leaves, written in pencil by Steinbeck on rectos only, and one typed letter from his editor. All in near fine condition, with faint toning to edges and small paperclip indentations. (Goldstone & Payne C90, article) With an 11-page typed transcription of the drafts and letters, bound in chronological order of appearance. Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell case, title printed on paper label affixed to spine. (Provenance: Christie's 1986; Christie's 1999) John Steinbeck's article "Autobiography: Making of a New Yorker," begins in Part One (not included here) with his first unhappy (and short-lived) experience in New York City in 1925, at the age of 23. Part Two, handwritten here, details his second "assault on New York" in the fall of 1935, in which he begrudgingly transforms from a "Country Boy" into a true "New Yorker." At first, Steinbeck writes: "It is so strange to look back. I was going to live in New York but I was going to avoid it." Near the end of the installment, his anecdotes change. He writes: "Everything fell into place. I saw every face I passed. It was beautiful - but most important - I was part of it, I was no longer a stranger." In the final section, handwritten here, Steinbeck describes the broad dichotomy of the city, and romanticizes city life. He writes: "New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But. once you have lived in New York and it has become your home - no place else is good enough. All of everything is concentrated here, population, theatre, art, painting, publishing, importing, business, murder, mugging, luxury, poverty. It is all of everything." The correspondence between Steinbeck and NYTM editor Seymour Peck primarily discusses deadlines for the article drafts. In the first letter, Steinbeck tells Peck of his plans for the three-part article. Peck responds on November 26, 1952, asking for all writing to be completed by December 24, 1952. The second letter is inserted at the end of Part Two, informing Peck that Part Three will be along shortly. The third letter, dated December 17, 1952, accompanies Part Three, in which Steinbeck says the article "isn't very good, but it is heart-felt." A truly exceptional collection of autobiographical writings from a classic American author. Despite his reputation as a Californian, John Steinbeck spent nearly half his life living in New York City. In 1925, he left Stanford University without a degree and moved to the city for roughly one year. He returned to New York with his then-girlfriend Gwen, living for a while in Sneden's Landing. They stayed in New York until the birth of his first son, Thom, and the publication of Cannery Row (1945). He later returned to the East Coast with his third wife, Elaine, and bought a home in Sag Harbor in 1955. Steinbeck remained in New York City until his death in 1968. Handwritten by John Steinbeck, parts two and three of his three-part article for The New York Times Magazine titled, "Autobiography: Making of a New Yorker." Together with three autograph letters signed by Steinbeck to NYTM editor Seymour Peck, and o (illustrator). Signed. …