Sandpapers: The Lives and Letters of Eugene Manlove Rhodes and Charles Fletcher Lummis

Clark, Frank M

ISBN 10: 0865342113 / ISBN 13: 9780865342118

Published by Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1994

About this Item

159 pp. with Index and Bibliography. Foreword by Keith Lummis. Binding tight, text clean.

Seller Inventory # 049788

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sandpapers: The Lives and Letters of Eugene Manlove Rhodes and Charles Fletcher Lummis
• Publisher: Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, NM
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865342113
• ISBN 13: 9780865342118
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 7 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Biography
  • Western Americana

About this title

Synopsis

Two great men: one a brilliant author and the other a skilled editor, photographer, and self-taught archeologist. Together they laid out the vast beauty, mystery and grandeur of the land known as the American Southwest. Both were scrappers--Rhodes with words and occasionally fists, and Lummis with his rapierlike editorials. In their time transportation was not easy, friends often saw little of each other and letter writing was not taken lightly. The author weaves a story of these two literary greats through their letters. The book reveals much about their characters and their era. Rhodes and Lummis put much of themselves into their skilled and expressive correspondence. We feel the great compassion, courtesy, kindness and genuine concern for those they held dear in this book that is as much about the lost art of civility as it is about the men who worked to preserve it.

From the Back Cover

The author weaves a story of these two literary greats through their letters. The book reveals much about their characters and their era. Rhodes and Lummis put much of themselves into their skilled and expressive correspondence. We feel the great compassion, courtesy, kindness and genuine concern for those they held dear in this book that is as much about the lost art of civility as it is about the men who worked to preserve it.