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ARENAS, Reinaldo. El portero. Miami, FL: Ediciones Universal, 1990. Octavo, 157pp. First edition of this novel written in exile by the great Cuban author, among the major writers of the Americas in his generation. A near fine copy in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by Arenas, warmly and at some length in the year of publication, to his friend, fellow hispanic writer in exile, Jaime Manrique. Manrique has written an eloquent appreciation of Arenas in Emminent Maricones. Manrique has made one marginal comment, "New York." A scarce title.
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ARENAS, Reinaldo. Termina el desfile. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1981. Octavo, 174pp. First edition thus, adding the title story to the contents of the collection published without authorization in Uruguay in 1972, Con los ojos cerrados.
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ARENAS, Reinaldo. Termina el desfile. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1981. Octavo, 174pp. First edition thus, adding the title story to the contents of the collection published without authorization in Uruguay in 1972, Con los ojos cerrados. The present early short fiction won Arenas an honorable mention in the Writers' Union Competition in 1968, but his work was banned soon afterward. He managed to have two copies of the manuscript smuggled out of Cuba, the one which was eventually published by Angel Rama in Uruguay became the seed of intense contention when Arenas discovered its existence only twelve years later in New York. The present text might be called the "first authorized edition." This copy inscribed by Arenas to fellow writer-in-exile Jaime Manrique, "con amor y admiracion, su amigo y lector, Reinaldo Arenas. 1985, New York."
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ARENAS, Reinaldo. Viaje a la Habana. Miami, FL: Ediciones Universales, 1990. Octavo, 153pp. First edition of this novel written in exile in New York between 1983 and 1987, subtitled, "A Novel in Three Voyages," by the great Cuban exile writer. A very good or better copy in publisher's illustrated stiff self-wrappers. Inscribed by Arenas to fellow author and friend Jaime Manrique, who has depicted Arenas's final months with great warmth in his brief collection, Eminent Maricones, "un abrazo infinito (?) despues de viaje," in the year of publication.
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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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BARNEY, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poemes. NY: Emile-Paul Frreres & George Doran, 1920. Quarto, 29pp. Another copy. One of an unspecified number of hand-lettered copies on grey paper, this letter number A. Publisher's grey self-wraps rather the worse for wear, spine partly perished, internally fine.
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BARNEY, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poemes. NY: Emile-Paul Frreres & George Doran, 1920. Quarto, 29pp. An elegant edition combining a selection fron Barney's poems in English and in French. One of 680 hand-numbered copies , this number 5. Fine in publisher's grey self-wraps with printed label on upper wrap.
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CARPENTER, Edward. Autograph Note, Signed. 1908. Two sides of a folded octavo sheet, with printed letterhead, "Millthorpe, Holmesfield near Sheffield." A brief reply to an aspiring writer who has sent him a manuscript. Carpenter replies that he has not had time to read it but that, "from a hasty glance it looks to me somewhat crude and tentative -- a sort of rough sketch for something..." Fifteen lines, continuing in the same manner, but signed "fraternally, Edw. Carpenter." The powerful social critic and Uranian poet has remained a subterranian literary force for a century now; although he's not likely to emerge onto the larger scene anytime soon, he's also unlikely to be lost to literary history. Very good.
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COCTEAU, Jean. Le Prince frivole. Paris: Mercure De France, 1910. Octavo, 170pp. First edition of Cocteau's second book, a collection of poems. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author: "Cher monsieur Coolus, voici mon petit volume, je vous l'envoie avec tout mon affectueux respect." An excellent fresh copy in publisher's printed yellow wrappers.
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COCTEAU, Jean. Le prince frivole, with a Fourteen-Line Poem in the Hand of the Author. Paris: Mercure de France, 1910. Octavo, 170pp. First edition, ordinary issue (there were 12 tete copies) of Cocteau's second published work, a collection of related poems concerning the title character, in a sort of mock heroic troubador style, some the putative creations of the frivolous prince himself. A very good+ copy in a recent art binding by James Tapley, in full blue morocco with gilt designs and leather and metallic silver endpapers, original printed wrappers bound in. This copy inscribed by Cocteau, with a fourteen-line poem, "Au grave Jean Bouscatel (using the half-title) Le Prince Frivole mais affecteux, Jean Cocteau." The poem appears on a separate preliminary blank and is entitled "L'Oublie." An exceptionally rare title; evidently, Cocteau would disavow this volume by about 1918, and it was his habit to destroy whatever copies he could lay his hands upon.
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