Correspondence by Thomas, Signed (27 results)

POLLOCK, Clark Thomas. [With Oscar CARGILL]. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS WOLFE AND HOMER ANDREW WATT. NY: New York University Press, 1954. Sm. 4to., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Pollock on front endpaper, dated 1961. In 1924, Wolfe wrote Watt, chairman of the English Department at Washington Square College of New York University, asking for a job. The two would end up corresponding for the next six years. Very Good (small hole on front pastedown); few nicks and creases d/j. $25.00.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1983. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 294 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with light blue dust jacket. SIGNED by Bernard Peach on front end page. DJ has toning at edges and spine with slight shelf wear at edges. Blue cloth and titles are clean and bright, interior unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim grey illustrated paper folder containing two leaflets announcing Limited Edition books published by The Black Pennell Press in 1988. Also an introduction leaflet signed by the Publisherand three unused Order Forms (with Trade Discount information). Publications promoted are Cupid's guide to the Wedding Ring and Rules and Directions to be Observed in Printing-Houses. Each leaflet is illustrated. Together with three pieces of correspondence between Thomas Rae and the proprietor of The Lighthouse Bookshop, Bridport, Dorset (February to August 1988). Stamped addressed envelope included. All now protected in an archival envelope. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of these pieces of ephemera. Signed by Publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine hardcover in a Fine dust jacket, inscribed and signed by the author on the contents page. Dust jacket has been wrapped for protection. ; 9.25 X 6.25 X 1.50 inches; 450 pages; Signed by Author.

Condition: Good. Typed Letter signed on Kushi Foundation letterhead, 8.5" x 11", plus material on Kushi. Very Good. Re: Hesse, Finney, KA Porter, Irving Berlin, et al.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Sml. 8vo, 288pp, 1pp ads. Old calf worn, front hinge loose. Henry W. Eastman's copy, signed with his bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine Hardcover; in Fine Color-Illustrated Dust Jacket; attractively bound in dark cloth with white spine lettering; personally inscribed and Flat-SIgned by Vince Dooley on title page; gray end pages; xx (20) + 369 pages, plus 49 additional pages of illustrations including photos with captions and maps of battles, skirmishes, and a raid; text includes 6-page William and Rose Delony timeline, many letters, many footnotes, a poem of tribute, two appendices, a biographical roster, a bibliography and an index; Foreword by Emory M. Thomas, Regents Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Georgia; 14 chapters; a securely bound, nice attractive book; a scholarly work: Civil War. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pp. xx, [28 pages of illustrations and portraits], [3], 2-369 including index. 8vo. First Edition, First Printing with the "1" in the number sequence. Inscribed by Vince Dooley to friends on the title page and dated 10-2-17. A very personal inscription. Dust jacket is protected in a mylar sleeve. Dust jacket and book are in excellent condition, like new except for the personal inscription by the author. Not signed by the second author, Samuel Norman Thomas, Jr. Also freely laid in the book are reviews of the book and a personal note card from Vince Dooley. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 3 volume set. Ex-Library copies; with typical markings. Library labels on spine tails. 2 volumes signed by donor, Albert F. Neumann, lawyer & law professor. Front hinge of V1 cracked. Spines and portions of boards sunned; spine gilt still very readable. Bottom corners of V3 bumped. Very light rubbing on spine extremities and board corners. Darkening on page edges. Else pages clean, but for library markings. This is a large, heavy set; Priority and/or International may require shipping over and above standard costs. ; RIH21C; 1360 pages; Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Signed presentation copy:"For Norman Scarfe.Tom Hoving." Copy belonging to Norman Scarfe, with his embossed stamp and book plate on the front end paper. Loosely inserted correspondence from the author to Norman Scarfe at Suffolk records Society, comprising one typed signed letter on Metropolitan Museum of Art headed paper; typed signed letter on having associates Head paper; typed notes; signed typed letter from Carol Southall, The American friends of the Aldeburgh Festival. Newspaper clipping, new York Post 1986 on Thomas Hoving "former Met director." History: 'In the spring of 1955, after eight centuries of silence, in mysterious work of art, one of the most beautiful and enigmatic ever created in world history, suddenly turned up in the hands of a strange and secretive collector.' Large 8vo.pp. 365. Original publisher's quarter cloth binding in cherry red, with beige sides, lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in red, lettered beige with a photograph of a wooden cross. ISBN: 0671433881./ Norman Scarfe (1923-2014) distinguished historian and author of Shell Guides (Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire). His bookplate states ĠSum Scarfei nec muto dominumĠ (i.e. ÔI belong to Scarfe, I do not change my master.Ġ) He landed on D-Day with the 3rd Division, later writing its history in 1947. Having read History at Oxford he moved to Suffolk and is known for his work on Suffolk history. He is the author of several 'Shell Guides.' Near very good in very good dust jacket. Sound. Slight lean and slight foxing. Price clipped dust jacket slightly creased at edges. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xxxi, 352 pages. Mostly unopened. Binding square; warm presentation inscription from Prof. Hammond to his assistant and friend Mary Ann Fisher st half title, contents clean. The dust jacket is edgeworn. "Printed in an edition of one thousand copies on Linweave Town Crier Text. Designed by A.R. Tommasini. Set by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc. in English Monotype Centaur designed by Bruce Rogers. Printed and bound by the University of California Printing Department." 1160 grams. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Original Photographs 1903-1922 Including Many Negatives (Most Annotated), Copies Of Photographs (Most Annotated), Original Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Books By And About Him 1912-2004, Etc. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Archive Of Photographs And Correspondence In Tibet, By Albert Leroy Shelton ("Als"), Medical Missionary In Tibet 1903-1922. The Archive Contains 6 First Printings Of Books By Or About Him, 1912-2004, A Paper "A Bibliographic Essay On American Missionaries To The Tibetans Prior To 1950" (1998) With Related Correspondence From William Martin, Also Shelton's 146 Photographs 1903?-1922? Of Which 85 Are Annotated In White Ink, One Photograph Printing Plate (Zinc?) Of Als And His Wife Flora And Two Daughters Dorothy And Dorris (All Of Which Accompanied Him), 7 Sets Of Reprint Sheets With 2 Photos Per Sheet Also With One Original Photo And One Original Negative, 3 Annotated Negatives 10" X 8" Plus Three Photos On One Sheet 10" X8", 3 Negatives Annotated On Wrapping Paper And On Original Annotated On Reverse, 34 Photos 7"X5" Of Which 26 Negatives And 8 Proofs All Annotated On Envelopes And With Transmittal Letter From Dr. William Hardy 1987, 47 Large Copies Of Photographs 14" X 10 7/8" With Pencil Annotations On Reverse Signed "J.B., Fine Scenes Of Tibetan People And Group Activities And Buildings, Including One Annotated "Remains Of Tibetan Murdered By Chinese- Boiled To Death In A Large Cauldron- Bones Scattered To Be Scavenged By The Dogs- J.B.", Computer Printouts 6 Pp And 10 Pp With Chronology Of Als'S Life, About 44 Letters To And From Als And His Wife Flora Beal Shelton, 1903-1922, With Details Of Events And How They Were Impacted In Particular By The 1918 Fighting Between The Tibetan Armies And The Chinese Armies, A Letter From The British "Bengal Secretariat" Inventorying His Effects After His Death, 1922, And Another Long List Of Items Purchased From The Estate By Dr. Hardy, And Two Long Newsletters About The Continuing Ministry In Tibet Which Are Undated But 1920'S, Two 6 And 8 Pp Copies Of Letters From The Morse'S October And November 1922 Describing Dr. Shelton'S Death In Detail And Current Events Since, 2Nd Page Of Original Letter From Flora Describing Events Just Prior To Departure For Tibet, 1903, 71 Pp Clipping File Of Newspaper Reports And 1903-1922? By Sheltons And Others (Pasted Into A Book) With Loose Notes By Daughter Dorris. Also, A Large Format 51 Pp. Scrapbook Of Ephemera And Newspaper Reports From Before And After His Death, With Letters From John D. Rockefeller And An Aide To Als 1920 Regarding Purchase Of Art For $1000 (The Majority Of His Art Was Sold To The Newark Museum To Form The Bulk Of Their Important Tibetan Art Collection), Official Letters To Or About Him Regarding His Being Taken Hostage, The Als Death Certificate By Dr. Hardy, Photocopy Of The Dalai Lama'S Pass/Permit For Als'S Last Trip, And Memorial Service Brochures, Also Two Additional Original Photographs Of Shelton And 4 Original Photographs Dated 1907, One Of Which Shows The Stone Bridge Which Was Then The Boundary Of Tibet. [An Archive Of Material About Her Father, Her Own Experiences In Tibet, Etc., By His Other Daughter Dorris Shelton Still, Is Available Separately, As Are Manuscripts Of His Wife'S Unpublished Novel And An Early Draft Of Her Unpublished Memoir Of Her Own Experiences There Together With A Photocopy Of A Later And Much Longer Draft). Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Typed letters, one signed, on university letter head, 13" x 8" & Smaller formats, plus envelope, Very Good with minor creasing, perforation.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, Thomas Parkinson archive.

Condition: Good. Mostly Typed or Printed Letters signed, 33 pp. Very Good. Re: Bellow, Cather, Golding, Updike, et al.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Condition: Good. Typed Letter signed, Printouts of Invoice and Want Lists, Very Good. Re: Mailer, Camus, Conrad, et al. Kauffman was an author and taught at University of South Florida.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Condition: Good. Twelve Pieces of Correspondence, Mostly Typed Letters signed on Letter-sized sheets, a few memo-sized, a post card, photocopies, and several in MS on letter and smaller sized formats. Very Good. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Condition: Good. Two Typed Letters signed with notes inked in margins (Gartner to Goldwasser) and Two Page Serendipity Books List of Grabhorn Press Books for sale 8.5" x 11" Very Good. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Condition: Good. Typed & MS Letters signed 6" x 9", plus invoice from Serendipity Books with extensive notes by Goldberg to Goldwasser inked in margins. Very Good. Much of one letter to do with another collector, Stephen Korshak. Typed letter signed by Korshak, November 12, 1986, present with this material.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Condition: Good. Two Typed Letters signed, 8.5" x 11" and 8 pp. Want List printout with notes inked in margins, Very Good. Re: Updike, McMurtry, Albee, et al.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Condition: Good. Correspondence, Mostly Typed Letters signed on Letter-sized sheets and smaller sized formats, with accounting and lists of books on consignment. Very Good. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

First British edition of this classic biography of the United States' third president, published simultaneously with the American edition in Philadelphia. Royal octavo, original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Thomas Jefferson to Vol. I, largely uncut. In very good condition with some sunning to the spine, bookplate to the front free endpaper of both volumes. Housed in two half morocco slipcases and chemises. George Tucker was a Professor at Jefferson's University of Virginia recommended to his position by Founding Father and fourth President of the United States James Madison. His 'Life of Thomas Jefferson,' published in 1837 was the first comprehensive biography of the third president to be made, with the first volume containing a copy of his letter to Madison with which he sends a copy of the book's manuscript and Madison's encouraging response.

16 Autograph Letters Signed, 10 Autograph Cards Signed and one Typed Letter Signed. The letters total 32pp. The collection is in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. The correspondence deals exclusively with mathematical questions raised in the Mathematical Gazette, with the writers providing mathematical calculations and demonstrations. From six individuals, as follows. ONE: T.A.A. Broadbent [ Thomas Arthur Alan Broadbent ] (1903-1973) of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich: 4 ALsS and 3 ACsS. TWO: G.A. Garreau [ Gabriel Armand Garreau ]: 2 ALsS and one TLS. THREE: C. Dudley Langford (see 'Langford's Problem') of Henrietta Cottage, 16 Henrietta Street, Girvan, Ayrshire: 2 ALsS and 2 ACsS. FOUR: T.B.W. Spencer (author of 'Mathematical Problem Papers') of 35 The Downs, Wimbledon: one ALS. FIVE: A.S. Gosset Tanner [ Arthur Spencer Gosset-Tanner ], master at Derby School: 5 ACsS and 2 ALsS. SIX: J. Travers, Headmaster, Peterborough College, Harrow: 5 ALsS. Also present is a Typed Letter Signed by 'Ripley' (i.e. on behalf of Robert Ripley's American franchise), on letterhead of the Sunday Express, 3 January 1940: 'Your interesting problem of the three numbers has been noted, and will be included in "Believe it or Not" at an early date.' From the Harington family papers, the recipient being Sir Richard Dundas Harington, 13th Baronet (1900-1981), whose address is given as The Brook, Lower Howsell, Malvern Link, Worcestershire.

First Edition. First Printing, hardcover issue, one of 4,000 copies. Octavo (22cm); rebound in a recent design binding in full orange crushed morocco, spine in five compartments, with four raised bands, gilt-stamped navy blue leather title labels, a concentric square motif tooled in gilt and navy blue within the compartments, and navy blue ruled border on covers; all edges gilt; [vi],[2],3-760,[2]pp. Inscribed by Pynchon in a contemporary hand on the front endpaper to his ex-girlfriend, Christopher-Ann Press: "For Christopher-Ann, who shares so much of this + with thankx for then, and love for now Tom." Some old dampstaining to endpapers, with mild waviness to a few preliminary and terminal leaves as a result; Near Fine, housed in a custom navy blue cloth slipcase, with the interior lined with marbled paper. Pynchon's third and best-known book, "a sprawling slipstream novel about a World War II psychological warfare unit full of weird characters, one of whom seems to be determining the pattern of V-2 rocket attacks by his sexual activities but refuses to submit to study and possible control" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder II-885). One of the defining books of the 1970s, and a novel that redefined the postmodern novel. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974, and selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1973, though no award was given for fiction that year.An extraordinary copy, inscribed by Pynchon to Christopher-Ann Press (b.1950, who today goes by Zoë Christopher), who met Pynchon in 1967 when she was 17 and living with her mother and stepfather in Manhattan Beach, California. Pynchon lived in a duplex across the street, and he and her stepfather became friends over time. In an extended provenance statement she mentions her familiarity with him and the way their relationship came to be: "When Tom and I saw each other at the local neighborhood market or on the sidewalk, we'd strike up brief friendly conversations. On April 6, 1969, I went into labor, and opted for a natural birth. My stepfather, a physician, had offered to deliver my baby at home. I labored all day, and by early evening, we realized we'd neglected to include sutures in the "crash kit." My stepfather realized he'd have to speed to his office and back, and he wanted someone with him to watch for police. The only neighbor he trusted was Tom, and Tom agreed to go with him. When they returned, my stepfather invited Tom to come in and witness a natural birth. Tom and I had developed a nice friendship by then, and I was comfortable with him being present. It was toward the end of 1969 that my young son and I moved across the street and in with Tom. We'd become romantically involved and it was time to move away from a tense situation at home. I was nineteen. Tom and I discussed leaving the city as soon as he finished Gravity's Rainbow. We decided on Humboldt County. My best friend, Gail, who had become a good friend of Tom's, would be joining us. On October 7, 1970, we all loaded my truck and Gail's car. Tom would stay in Manhattan Beach to finish Gravity's Rainbow, while Gail and I went ahead to unpack and set up the house I had found for us in Eureka."The book is accompanied by three typed letters, signed, written from Pynchon to Press between November, 1970 and December, 1971. They chronicle, in great detail, the tumultuous nature of their relationship, his complicated feelings for her and her son, and his struggles with the manuscript for Gravity's Rainbow in the years between completion and publication. Contents are as follows:1. 3pp typed letter, dated 11 Nov, 1970, and written from Manhattan Beach, California. Single-spaced on two sheets of white graph paper (measuring 8.5" x 11"); 136 lines (1824 words), signed "LOVE, Tom" in pink felt-tipped pen at lower margin of p.3. Some old horizontal and vertical mailing folds smoothed out, light wear and handling, with some old dampstaining (not affecting legibility). Together with the original mailing envelope, a bit stained and roughly opened, franked, and postmarked Nov 12, 1970.2. 2pp typed letter, dated 30 Nov, 1970, and written from Manhattan Beach, California. Single-spaced on both sides of a single sheet of yellow graph paper (measuring 8.5" x 11"); 96 lines (1268 words), signed "lOVE, Tom" in orange marker at lower margin of p.2. Some old horizontal and vertical mailing folds smoothed out, light wear and handling, with three small, shallow, and very faint stains at right margin. Together with the original mailing envelope, faded, a bit foxed and roughly opened, franked, and postmarked Nov 30, 1970.3. 2pp typed letter, dated 10 Dec 1971, and written from Palm Desert, California. Single-spaced on both sides of a single sheet of yellow graph paper (measuring 8.5" x 11"); 91 lines (1159 words), signed "Love, Tom" in dark brown felt-tipped pen at lower margin of p.2. One minor holograph correction in Pynchon's hand on p.2, old horizontal and vertical mailing folds smoothed out, modest handling, with two surface abrasions resulting in two tiny holes toward right edge (not touching text). Further details available upon request.

The artist William Hatherell's collection of letters and documents relating to his work as an illustrator in the 1890s-1920s. Among c70 items is Hatherell's retained copy of a famous letter to him by Thomas Hardy praising his 1895 illustrations for Jude the Obscure, which the novelist wrote 'to express my sincere admiration for the illustrations of "Jude at the Milestone". The picture is a tragedy in itself & I do not remember ever before having an artist who grasped the situation so thoroughly Thomas Hardy' (see Hardy, Collected Letters Vol II). Much of Hatherell's considerable success in Britain and north America flowed from Hardy's high praise for his work and it is notable how much of this correspondence from editors in London and New York deals with Hatherell's refusal to lower his standards. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Folio Album (38x29cm) bound in original green roan and pebbled cloth; structurally sound but lightly worn with cracking to the leather outer hinges at head and tail of spine. Bookseller's ticket of 'W Straker' London to front pastedown. 54 leaves in total; 46 used, mostly rectos for a collection of letters and ephemera, c70 items in all. NARRATIVE: The album begins with a letter from Dean Cornwell - 'The Dean of Illustrators' - President of the Society of Illustrators in the USA, announcing Hatherell's election as a member and stating that 'There is no living man whom we men in American feel a greater debt to, than yourself, for all you have done to raise Illustration to a high plane.' Later America correspondents include Richard Harding Davis discussing a commission, Charles Dana Gibson (also on Society of Illustrators business) and Edward Russell (McClure's Magazine) who expresses disappointment 'because my suggestion for the picture was not taken into account at all'. In a later later letter Edward Russell writes on Players Club of NYC headed paper to apologise for a short deadline 'but the call of the Editorial Department must be obeyed and sometimes they have me on the hip' as well as making suggestions for Hatherell in a forthcoming story he is to illustrate. Other correspondents include Queen Mary (printed letter and ticket to the Palace of Arts British Empire Exhibition which included Hatherell's work), Florence A Kirkpatrick; E F Sharie from the Strand Magazine on his choice of media: 'I do not want to hamper you in any way, but pencil drawings are extremely difficult to reproduce.' Hugo Tyerman (The Children's Newspaper); William Babington Maxwell (Hatherell illustrated his stories in The Strand), Robert Percy Hodder Williams (publisher) Agnes Ethel Conway (Women's Work, Imperial War Museum, about Hatherell's Edith Cavell painting) A E Johnson (artist's agent on commissions) and three letters from Sydney Boot about illustrations for Sheila Kaye Smith. George Robey (3 letters) the music hall performer writes about an illustrated programme for a memorial concert - with the programme laid in and Rutherford Crockett re illustration of his story. Other publications represented by letters include The Graphic; The Associated Illustrators (Henry S Fleming, Broadway) and there is real emotion from some correspondents: 'I wept over your picture in last years Academy' from Florence T Nicholson. Alfred Scott-Gatty (composer) writes about the purchase of a picture. Hugh Stowell Scott - actually novelist Hugh Merriman - praises 'a sense of the dramatic' in Hatherell's work. Also letters from George Clausen, founder member of the New England Art Club; Stanhope Forbes (Newlyn Artist); novelist Mary Cholmondely with costume changes recommended by a friend who has viewed pictures in the company of 'The King and the Prince of Wales'. A letter from Clement Phillipson in Australia recalls meeting Hatherell in 1890 in the goldmines of Tetulpa when he was touring the country on a commission from Cassell to illustrate a book about the country. William Hatherell (1855-1928) studied at the Royal Academy and despite working in oils and other media achieved his most notable success as an illustrator. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

65 ff. with press notices and reviews from newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and overseas; more than 100 inserted Typed or Autograph Letters, Signed, Notes, and Telegrams; Derrydale Presss prospectus & ephemera; and many related clippings. 1 vols. Folio. Unique and substantial archive of press notices and correspondence concerning Hounds and Hunting through the Ages (Derrydale Press, 1928), addressed to the author, Joseph B. Thomas, Yale class of 1903, wealthy sportsman and enthusiast of sporting hounds and exotic breeds. Correspondents include sporting authors and artists, masters in the U.S., Europe, and South America, as well as members of New York society. Includes 57 Typed Letters, Signed, including the following: Eugene V. Connett, proprietor of the Derrydale Press, 11 January 1929, concerning printing bills: This will acknowledge receipt of your cheque for $5,094.64 in payment of my bill for Hounds and Hunting. Thank you for being so prompt it saved me from the sherriff!" Also observing "Somehow I can't imagine that I will ever do a better book for anyone " Wilf Packlington Pond, The Spur, 2 letters Bumpus (Booksellers), 4 letters concerning sales of the book in England and requesting a signed copy for the Duke of Goucester Mason Houghland, 3 letters (wrote foreword to Windhard House edition) Belle da Costa Green (director of the Morgan Library), a witty, flirtatious letter Ogden Reid, N.Y. Herald Tribune Julian Starkweather Mason, N.Y. Evening Post Donald Freeman, Vanity Fair, 2 letters George Snell Mandell, Boston Transcript Reg Townsend, Country Life E.F. Warren, Field & Stream E. Newton, The Field Sam Woolridge, The Chase, 2 letters Commandant de Marolles, St. Hubert Club de France (with 18-pp. carbon typescript of review, in French, and 2 copies of the printed review) Includes 42 Autograph Letters, Signed, including the following: Franklin B. Voss (artist, contributed to the book), letter on mourning stationery W. Smithson Broadhead (artist, contributed to the book) Percival Rosseau (artist, contributed to the book) H.A. Bryden (sporting author), 2 letters, 4 pp. E.L. Crawford ("Anole Hunter", author of Let's Ride to Hounds) Richard Clapham (British sportsman, author of The Book of the Fox), 6-page letter, with articles & his review in Shooting Times Harry Worcester Smith (sportsman and author) Frank Gray Griswold (sportsman and author), great 2-page letter, describing how he took up fishing when he could no longer ride to hounds Viscount Deerhurst, 2 letters, 10 pp. Howard Collin (New York), nice letter "an enduring monument" Luis L. Valdes (Chile) Jacques Allez August Busch (St. Louis) Henry Irving Brock (New York & Virginia). Provenance: Joseph B. Thomas; his son, Joseph B. Thomas IV, the dedicatee of the published book Grey canvas cloth covered scrapbook, spine and upper cover lettered in ink. Album paper brittle and chipped, a few leaves with partial loss of inserted newspaper content, letters generally sound 65 ff. with press notices and reviews from newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and overseas; more than 100 inserted Typed or Autograph Letters, Signed, Notes, and Telegrams; Derrydale Presss prospectus & ephemera; and many related clippings. 1 vols. Folio.

Seven autograph letters, signed: four from T. J. Wise to Mrs. M. Bruce, and three from Bruce to Wise. The letters from Wise are all on single sheets of Shelley Society letterhead, folded to small 8vo, addressed to 'Dear Madam', signed either 'Thos. J. Wise' or 'Th. J. Wise'. The correspondence is mainly business-related: Bruce was purchasing books from Wise, although in one letter she gives Wise some news about her son. The letters comprise: 1. Four pages, dated May 13th 1893: [a reply to Bruce's letter from day before]: '. . . I have sent you . . . a packet containing Ruskin's "Letters to Ward" vol. 1, "Letters to general correspondents" - & "Letters to a London Bibliopole" - in sheets. . . . These books are rather expensive, but that is in consequence of the very limited number that are printed. But you need not be alarmed at the price, as they will shortly become of considerable value by reason of their scarcity, and the very great interest of their contents. You shall have vol. 2 of "'Letters to Ward" when ready. Pray instruct your binders ul not to cut the edgesulnone of the "Letters to a London Bibliopole" when they are binding it. Binders are a bad lot, and if they are not closely looked after will utterly destroy a good book by wickedly cutting away the rough edges of the hand-made paper, and so for ever destroying the perfect beauty of the virgin leaves.' 2. One page, dated July 8th 1893: 'Herewith I have pleasure in handing you vol. 2 of Mr. Ruskin's "Letters to Wm. Ward". The cost of the vol. is 18/-'. 3. Two pages, dated Dec. 22 1893: 'I will with pleasure retain a copy of "Alaric at Rome" as you desire. Perhaps you will kindly advise me when you return to England'. 4. Three pages (last signature), dated June 13th 1894: 'I send the copy of "Alaric at Rome" herewith. I will with pleasure let you have due notice should I at any time print another poem by Mr. Swinburne. But I want to devote most of my attention to printing ul Lettersulnone - as it is of the greatest importance that these documents should be preserved in type for the use of students of a future generation.' The letters from Mrs. Bruce, all signed 'M. Bruce' are: 1. Single small 8vo sheet written on both sides, with light horizontal crease from folding, dated May 12th 1893: 'I . . . will gladly have the sheets of "Letters to a London Bibliopole" bound if you will kindly send them to me. I enclose cheque . . . ' 2. Single small 8vo sheet written on both sides on 'Gormyre, Stretford' letterhead, dated July 21 1893: 'I have taken the liberty of sending you "The City News" containing an article written by my son A. Oldham Lees. He, and a young friend of his, with three guides, were the first to ascend Mont Blanc this year . . . ' 3. Probably a draft letter, on a larger 8vo sheet, folded, 'Gormyre, Stretford' letterhead, undated, with three pages of closely written text, (sometimes crossed out or overscored), including information about her book collection: 'I don't know how it is that I am so fond of books. I have not any acquaintances who care to look at my treasures and my [good, kind?] old husband would not expend sixpence upon a book except to give me pleasure. He often says I fill the home with rubbish and I very often say I will never buy another book, then I see one that ul I feel I must haveulnone and am again seized with the fever of longing . . .' Interestingly this letter ends with Mrs. Bruce assuring Wise that she 'will make all enquiries and try to find you The Lover's Tale [title crossed out then repeated] The "Lover's Tale" 1883 and if I am so fortunate as to come across it in some unexpected quarter you shall have it by the next post.' [Wise produced a counterfeit edition of Tennyson's The Lover's Tale circa 1890]. Accompanying the letters are the sheets of Stray Letters from Professor Ruskin to a London Bibliopole and the copy of Alaric at Rome mentioned in the correspondence: 1. Arnold (Matthew) ALARIC AT ROME. A prize poem. A type-facsimile reprint of the original edition, Published at Rugby in 1840. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pp. x+12(including the facsimile title page, last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece with tissue guard; tall demy 8vo; cream papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, top fore-corner of lower board bruised; uncut; edges of leaves slightly foxed; printed for private circulation only, London, 1893. One of 30 copies thus? Todd 2d. *The limitation certificate on page [v] states 'the impression of this book is limited to a few copies for private circulation only', but Wise later recorded in the Ashely Library list of 1895 that there were five copies on vellum and thirty on Whatman paper. From the type set up for this legitimate facsimile edition, Wise also made some counterfeits of the original, omitting the prefatory material and the printer's imprint at the end. The counterfeit was a cornerstone of Carter and Pollard's typographical evidence in their Enquiry and pointed to Wise as the culprit. 2. Ruskin (John) STRAY LETTERS FROM PROFESSOR RUSKIN TO A LONDON BIBLIOPOLE. Pp. xvi+86+[2](colophon, verso blank), index; post 8vo; folded sheets, unsewn; outer sheets slightly soiled; privately printed (Not for Sale), London, 1892. Edition limited to 'a few copies'. Cook & Wedderburn XXXVII.638-641; Todd 210d (giving the number of copies as 7 printed on vellum and 33 on Whatman paper). Edited and privately printed by Thomas J. Wise. The 'London Bibliopole' was bookseller, author and publisher Frederick Startridge Ellis (1830-1901). Also accompanied by some loose ephemera: a. the printed prospectus for The bibliography of Matthew Arnold. Single sheet, printed on both sides, with 'Now Ready' stamped in red over the printed 'In the Press' at head of first page, edges slightly creased and split. b. The printed prospectus for Letters from John Ruskin, to The Rev. F. A. Malleson, M.A . . . Single sheet, folded to form four cr. 8vo pages (2 blank), with The Ashley Library devi. Signed.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: 29 typed letters signed, 5 typed postcards signed, and 2 autograph postcards signed, all from McGuane to Oppenheimer, and one typed letter signed (carbon copy, with holograph note) from McGuane to William B. Decker (senior editor at Dial Press); written from Palo Alto (and elsewhere in California) and Grosse Ile, Michigan, 10 June 1966 to 4 December 1967. A total of 30 letters and 7 cards, 41 pages (the letters all 4to, and all but one single-spaced). WITH: Carbon copies of 33 letters from Dorothea Oppenheimer to McGuane (her side of the correspondence); carbon copies of 7 letters from Oppenmheimer to various editors and publishers; and 6 typed letters signed, 4 carbon copies, and 2 photocopies of letters from editors and publishers to Oppenheimer (mostly) or McGuane. McGuane's letters and cards are primarily on the writing, the revising, and the efforts to get 'The Bushwacked Piano' published. (Although the first written, it was his second novel published, in 1971.) Three of the letters deal at length with 'The Sporting Club' (published 1969) and four others refer to it. Other writers McGuane mentions or discusses are: Wallace Stegner (director of the Stanford Writing program), William Hjortsberg, E. L. Doctorow, Jim Harrison, John Hawkes, Denise Levertov, Thomas Pynchon, and Larry McMurtry. In one of the letters he comments on the Stanford Writing program itself. (BA). In fine condition.