Partisan Review, Signed (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Ed. Near Fine in tan wraps with black lettering. Literary magazine of poetry & prose, with essays by Doris Lessing on Salman Rushdie & Robert Harbison on the Hudson River School & poetry by Peter Sacks & Richard Howard. SIGNED BY PETER SACKS on title page. Literary Magazine, Partisan Review, Signed. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Typed Signed Letter. 8.5" x 11" Single Page front & back on UC Berkeley English Dept letterhead, Very Good.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Octavo, original Wrappers. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front panel. In near fine condition. Contains the Notes of a Dangling Man, an 18 page excerpt, with some revisions to create a cohesive story, from Saul Bellow's soon to be published first novel, Dangling Man, which was later published by Vanguard in 1944. âOne of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war" (Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker).

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Williams in black pen on the table of contents page: "To Bob, Love, Tennessee Williams Wednesday." Additionally signed by Williams in blue pen next to his poem, "Tuesday's Child," printed on p. 367. Publisher's white wrappers, printed in brown and green. Very good, with some toning to spine and wrapper edges, light rubbing to spine, a touch of edgewear, and a crease to p. 431. Overall, a pleasing copy, signed in a unique way by Williams. The Partisan Review was an influential literary and political quarterly magazine that ran from 1934 to 2003, publishing notable works by authors like James Baldwin, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Saul Bellow. In Tennessee Williams' poem "Tuesday's Child," he uses the famous nursery rhyme line "Tuesday's child is full of grace" as a jumping off point for exploring sibling dynamics, love, loneliness, and loss. In his inscription on the table of contents page, he signs his name "Tennessee Williams Wednesday," a reference to the line "Wednesday's child is full of woe" from the same nursery rhyme, and likely a nod to the intense depression and sadness he dealt with his entire life, which he bares in his literary works. One of the major playwrights from the 20th century, Williams wrote emotionally devastating works like The Glass Menagerie (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Signed.

No Binding. Condition: Good. In this one-page typed letter signed, Freeman provides publisher Henry Hart with citations for the three quotes from Greek and Roman classics he had made when they had last met. The names of the professors of these translations are: Charles Theophilus Murphy, Kevin Guinagh and Whitney Jennings. The quotes, we gather, are about a "defense of the democratic idea," "the clash between power and right, slavery and freedom," and "Cicero's remarks on power, ethics, etc." Typed on 11" x 8 ½" ivory bond paper and dated June 28, 1947 and signed "Joe". Joseph Freeman (1897-1965) was an American writer, journalist and founding editor of The New Masses (1926)  and the Partisan Review (1934). He also wrote for The Nation, Fortune, and Life. At various points in his life he was a member of the Workers Party of America and the Communist Party, as well as, an employee of the American Civil Liberties Union. Henry Hart was an American writer (Dr. Barnes of Merion, 1963) and publisher who worked as Publicity Director for Scribner's Sons, Editor-in-chief of Putnam's Sons, an Associate Editor of Time and Fortune, the founding member and first editor of Films in Review and a founding member of Equinox Cooperative Press. He edited the American Writer's Congress (1935) and was responsible for the English-translation publications of Thomas Mann's works. Condition: The letter has toned mailing fold lines and some notes in ink on the verso along the top margin. Generally good condition. Signed by Author(s).