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BEHRMAN, S.N. Typed Letter Signed, “Sam’l,” to civil rights leader Arthur B.
Spingarn, thanking him for sending a copy of
The Spirit Lamp
, asking for permission to
show it to Max [Beerbohm?], promising to return it, and, in a postscript, hoping to arrange
a meeting with himself, Max and Spingarn to discuss business and [William?] Rothenstein.
1 page, 8vo, personal stationery; horizontal fold.With the original envelope.
NewYork, 23 February 1955
[80/120]
Max Beerbohm’s essay, “The Incomparable Beauty of Modern Dress,” appeared in Alfred
Douglas’s Oxford literary journal,
The Spirit Lamp, in the June 6, 1893 issue.
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CATHER, WILLA. Typed Letter Signed, to J.W.S. Hammond, concerning the
color of the cloth biding of the first edition of her
Alexander’s Bridge
. 1 page, 4to, personal
stationery; folds.With the original envelope.
[NewYork], 1 June 1936
[500/750]
In full: “I really have never been much interested in first editions. I can only tell you that the
first copy of
Alexander’s Bridge
I possessed was bound in lavender cloth, but I seem to
remember having seen one in brown cloth. Houghton Mifflin did not think much of the book,
and they probably bound it up in any odd remnants of cloth they had in stock.”
WITH
—
a letter from C. Howard Roberts of H.O. Houton and Co. to J.W.S. Hammond
reporting that the file copy of Cather’s first novel is bound in lavender cloth and that the records
that might have recorded any alternative binding had been destroyed. Cambridge, 9 May
1936.
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CHANDLER, RAYMOND.Typed Document Signed, carbon copy of his agree-
ment with Paramount Pictures, terminating a previous contract dated November 17, 1944.
1 page, 4to; matted with portrait and framed.
Np, 19 April 1946
[500/750]
Chandler wrote the screenplay for
Blue Dahlia
while under the Paramount contract dated
November 17, 1944.
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