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ACKER, Kathy. Four-Page Holograph Manuscript, Entitled "Opinion." 1983. Four quarto sheets. Holograph manuscript of an approximately 950-word piece entitled "Opinion," which Acker has submitted for publication in a literary magazine. A work of fiction which begins innocently enough (for Acker), "For the last 27 years of my life the people I met behaved to me as if I am a lunatic. Therefore I’m a lunatic. I'm ill." Surprisingly, it elaborates its thesis in a rather touching way before veering into the depths of twisted sexual violence that characterize the Kathy Acker we know and love. Signed and dated by Acker in 1983. The manuscript is accompanied by a brief cover letter, addressed to Malcolm Imrie in London.
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Aiken, Henry David. A Philosophers Life in Letters - A Significant Portion of his Literary Archive with private and philosophical correspondence from C.I.Lewis to Philip Rice, Rod Chisholm, Ralph Barton Perry etc. etc. / Henry David Aiken's umfangreiche, private und philosophische Korrespondenz, Manuskripte etc. 4°. Approximately 15 linear feet of manuscript materials from the literary papers of American philosopher Henry David Aiken, including numerous essays and longer works of a philosophical, cultural-critical and political nature, as well as a number of large fregments of a never-completed autobiography. Aiken was a highly-regarded professor of philosophy at Harvard over a long career, colleague of W.V.O. Quine, John Rawls, Hilary Putnam, C.I. Lewis, Roderic Firth, etc. A handsome and charming, if mercurial and, ultimately, rather tortured man, Aiken would become one of the significant public voices of political dissent in his generation, an early and vigorous opponent of the Vietnam War, a crusader for sane sexual morality and social justice. The Archive includes the welcoming letter to Aiken by C.I.Lewis - his careerstart at Harvard - The here also included private correspondence allows us an insight into the life of a philosophical researcher, his fights, frustrations and accomplishments reflected in the correspondence with colleagues and to date famous fellow philosophers. Further information available upon request.
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AKHMATOVA, Anna (1889-1966). Annotated Carbon Typescript n.d. Quarto. Three-(of four)-page carbon typescript, heavily annotated by Akhmatova, providing an autobiography in outline. "I was born in Odessa…In Tsarskoe Selo we lived in a cold house, so to speak…" Akhmatova provides the addresses of all of her residences with dates, including the hotels she stayed at both in Russia and abroad. Extensively hand-annotated by Akhmatova. Lacking the second page. Very good.
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AKHMATOVA, Anna (1889-1966). Typescript Poem, Signed. 1945. Quarto. Two-page carbon typescript manuscript entitled "From The Leningradski Elegies," signed by Akhmatova and dated: 1945. Fontanny Dom. September 2. (The date presumably refers to the date of composition and not to the creation of this particular document, which is more likely to have been made in the early sixties.) Signed by Akhmatova in blue pencil. During the many years in which the divine Anna was prohibited from publishing her poetry, she would circulate her manuscripts among her circle of friends in this samizdat form: five carbons could be made at a time, and the distribution of such typescripts often provided the only contact many poets in her situation could establish with the deep tradition of Russian poetry and with its vital pulse. The present typescript emanates from a member of the inner circle. Very good.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Autograph Letter, Signed. 1955. Single 8" x 11" sheet. Autograph letter, signed from Rafael Alberti to Andres Vasquez, concerning almost entirely the Argentine edition of one of the poet's books. He discusses the proofs he has been sent and mentions the corrections that nedd to be made. Written on extremely fragile and acidic paper, so at best very good, but stable, especially frail along the horizontal and vertical creases. Signed by Alberti with a small maritime drawing.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Autograph Letter, Signed. 1963. Single 8" x 11" sheet. Autograph letter, signed and dated in Paris on October, 1963, from Rafael Alberti to Andrés Vázquez of Editorial Losada and former editor of Buenos Aires Literaria. Alberti is returning the proofs for Volume II of his Teatro (plays), and gives Vázquez instructions about the publication. Interestingly, he says that he had to correct "De un momento a otro" and "Noche de guerra en el museo del Prado" 'from memory,' since he didn't have a copy. Volume II was published by Losada that same year, and it also included "La Lozana Andaluza," an adaptation of the very famous 16th Century Picaresque novel by F. Delicado. In Paris, he has been searching for the French edition of "La Lozana..." published in 1912 with an introduction by Apollinaire, as he wishes to include some references. He also mentions his upcoming trip to Italy, where he would end up spending the next fifteen years. He adds two footnotes on the verso, on the top, left, and bottom of the page; in one of them he states his wishes for the final title of "La Lozana...": "La Lozana andaluza (Mamotreto en un prólogo y tres actos)", and he instructs him to eliminate the rest of the subtitle ("interpretación libre de la novela de Francisco Delicado, presbítero"). In fact, this later instruction was either ignored or Alberti changed his mind later, as the whole title was indeed published as it stood.A very nice letter revealing Alberti's preocupation with the smallest details of his publications. Also, a letter from that crucial time in his life in which he moved away from Buenos Aires and set down roots in Rome. With an improvised a letterhead by Alberti: a charming little sketch of the Eiffel Tower. Signed by Alberti in his large, flowery style.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Holograph Fair Copy, Signed, of the Poem "Manuel F. Rugeles." c. 1950. One page, quarto. Holograph fair copy, on onion-skin paper, of this poetic appreciation of the Venezuelan lyric poet, whose evocations of the earth and sea, whose simple but powerful verse have evoked comparison with his contemporary, the Spanish poet Antonio Machado. Ten four-line stanzas, signed by Alberti.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Holograph Manuscript of Marinero en tierra. 1930 c. . One hundred forty-three pages, rectos only, square small octavo notebook. Holograph fair copy manuscript of the text of Alberti's first book, the collection of poems entitled Marinero en tierra, this being the only known extant manuscript of the text. The present text was prepared from a later edition ("ultima edicion") of the text, probably circa 1930 and containing something like two-and-a-half times the text of the first edition. The original collection won Spain's prestigious National Prize for Literature in 1925. Alberti is among the greatest poets of modern Spain, the equal of a Machado or a Garcia Lorca although he spent the majority of his many years in exile, returning only in 1977 at the age of 75. Among his dozens of volumes of verse and his ten significant plays, several number among the great volumes of twentieth-century poetry, including Cal y canto, Sobre los angeles and Sermones y moradas. The present work is one of extraordinary maturity and singularity of poetic voice for the work of a 22-year old. Its primary theme and tone is one of nostalgia for a lost world of childhood, namely, the sea (the Bay of Cadiz) of the poet's birthplace at Puerta Santa Maria. While formally reminiscent of the old Spanish ballad and the Cancioneros of the 15th and 16th centuries, it already bears the mark of the poet's own distinctive style. Alberti had intended a career as a painter, and he is indeed an accomplished artist, but a health problem that compelled him to take a mountain air cure would call forth the poet within him. Over many tedious months recuperating from his lung disease, Alberti longed more and more for the sea, and a voice singing the joys of his youth arose within him, resulting in the present lyrics. Juan Ramon Jimenez praised the work, "viewing it as very personal and traditional but fresh, new and fully perfected." Alberti had shown Jimenez, a fellow Andalusian who had also grown up by the sea, an early draft of the poems, and the older poet was so favorably impressed that he not only published some of the text in the journal, Si, but wrote Alberti an appreciation which the poet subsequently included in all editions of the book, included here about half-way through the text. A wonderful manuscript.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Original Watercolor, Signed. n.p., c. 1950. 13 ¾” x 9 7/8” original watercolor, signed by the great Spanish poet. Alberti had trained as an artist, and it was due only to a health problem requiring a mountain cure that would uproot him from his studies, that his poetic gift would emerge in his early twenties. The present image, which we date from the fifties, shows an abstracted man on the deck of a small sailboat at sea, his hair lashed in the wind. Very good, effected on a sturdy stock of paper.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Original Watercolor, Signed. n.p., c. 1950. 13 ¾” x 9 7/8” (image size 10 ½” x 6 ¾”) original watercolor, signed by the great Spanish poet. The present image, which we date from the fifties, shows a man and a woman, in abstract, formed of lines of force, stretching out their hands to each other, against an abstract and rather surreal background. Some darkening to borders, not affecting image, as from exposure to smoke, and with a small piece lacking from one border. A very nice image.
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