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BALDWIN, James . Three Letters, Signed. 1955-1959. One-page autograph letter, signed, and two typed letters, signed, to Edwin Parone, dated 1955 to 1959. Three pages, octavo, on Howard University letterhead and plain paper; approximately 500 words; unpublished. Director of LeRoi Jones’s (Amiri Baraka) riveting off-Broadway play The Dutchman, Parone also worked as an editor at Dell Publishing and as a theatrical agent at the William Morris Agency during the 1950s. Parone was well acquainted with Baldwin and managed over the years to assist the financially embarrased writer by placing his work discreetely in well-paying anthologies. Mentioned in the correspondance is Amen Corner, which Baldwin implored his friend to "hold." "Anyone who wants to read it must read it at your house. Incidentally, Howard U. is presenting it from May 10 to May 19. Want to drop down and look at it with me?" According to Parone, "it was only natural that when Jimmy wrote Amen Corner I should find myself involved -- as a friend, as an agent -- he was a procrastinator and as the time drew dangerously close to rehersal [under playwright Owen Dodson] I literally locked him in his apartment until the work was done." A moving series of letters, with mention of his "awful financial situation" and of his intimate friend Lucien Happersberger, the dedicatee of Giovanni’s Room. Very good
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BERBEROVA, Nina. Povelitel'nica. Berlin: Pavlova, 1932. Octavo, 180pp. First edition of this early novel by the emigre author, the wife of the poet Khodasevich, who gradually became one of the most compelling voices in modern Russian literature. A very good or better copy in publisher's printed wraps. Scarce.
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375.00 |
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BRODSKY, Joseph. Ostanovka v pustyne (Halt in the Wilderness) 1970.
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2,250.00 |
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BRODSKY, Joseph. Stichotvoreni i Poemi. Washington, DC: Inter-Language Literary Assoc, 1965. Octavo, 236pp. First printing of this substantial collection, the publication of which was funded by the CIA. Brodsky's first book. A near fine copy in publisher's printed wrappers.
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2,750.00 |
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BUNIN, Ivan. Bozh'e drevo. (God's tree). Paris: Sovremennuia zapiski, 1931. Octavo, 174pp. Compilation of short stories titled after one of them was written in the period between 1927 and 1930, when Ivan Bunin was living in the French Alps. These stories, distinctive of Bunin's style of writing in emigration, have a meditative and reminiscing quality. Inscribed and dated in Grasse by the author: Dorogomu Ile Nikolaevichu, dobromu i zabotlivomu drugu moemu. Iv. Bunin. 18.V.1931. Grasse, a.m. Original printed ivory wrappers with publisher's advertisements bound in a later three quarter blue calf binding.
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico. Drawing in Ink and Color Pencil, Signed. c. 1933. 8 1/2" x 11" ink and colored pencil drawing of a large multicolored fish standing upright on its tail suggesting the shape of a vase or perhaps even a fountain, with smaller fish flowing forth as if from delicate tendrils. Brings new meaning to the old cliche, which we will now update to include a million words. Very good, on a page removed from a notebook.
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22,500.00 |
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico. Drawing in Ink and Color Pencil, Signed. c. 1933. 8 ½" x 11" ink and colored pencil drawing, depicting the lower half of a surreal one-eyed face, emerging as in a basin being filled with rain drops. A splendid example of Lorca's whimsical art. Very good, on a page removed from an album. Lorca drawings are extremely scarce in the market.
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico. Drawing in Ink and Color Pencil, Signed. c. 1933. 8 1/2" x 11" ink and colored pencil drawing of a vase full of drooping flowers, adorned with the shape of a new moon with an open eyeball. A fine example of Lorca's subtle surrealism. Very good, on a page removed from a notebook.
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico. Drawing in Ink and Color Pencil, Signed. c. 1933. 8 1/2" x 11" ink and colored pencil drawing of a bullfight, once again a fine example of Lorca's subtle surrealistic style. The scene suggests an almost uncanny stillness, while the faceless matador hints at something otherworldly. Very good, on a page removed from a notebook.
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GUILLÉN, Jorge. Cántico. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1950. Octavo, 540pp. First complete edition of one of the greatest poem cycles of the 20th Century. Spine a bit faded, else, a very good copy in publisher's printed self-wrappers. A very scarce title.
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350.00 |
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