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

Frank M. Clark

ISBN 10: 0865342113 / ISBN 13: 9780865342118

Published by Sunstone Press, New Mexico, 1994

About this Item

Tight, clean copy with signatures of both Frank M. Church, and Keith Lummis. 23 out of 100 copies signed by both of these men.

Seller Inventory # 00369a

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sandpapers: The Lives and Letters of Eugene Manlove Rhodes and Charles Fletcher Lummis
• Publisher: Sunstone Press, New Mexico
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865342113
• ISBN 13: 9780865342118
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.