Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents ...
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Catalogue of Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts & Historical Documents
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
"Livy darling, it was flattering, at the Lord Mayor's dinner, tonight, to have the nation's honored favorite, the Lord High Chancellor of England, in his vast wig & gown, with a splendid, sword-bearing lackey, following him & holding up his train, walk me arm-in-arm through the brilliant assemblage, & welcome me with all the enthusiasm of a girl, & tell me that when affairs of state oppress him & he can't sleep, he always has my books at hand & forgets his perplexities in reading them!" (10 November 1872) On his first trip to England to gather material for a book and cement relations with his newly authorized English publishers, Samuel Clemens was astounded to find himself hailed everywhere as a literary lion. America's premier humorist had begun his long tenure as an international celebrity. Meanwhile, he was coming into his full power at home. The Innocents Abroad continued to produce impressive royalties and his new book, Roughing It, was enjoying great popularity. In newspaper columns he appeared regularly as public advocate and conscience, speaking on issues as disparate as safety at sea and political corruption. Clemens's personal life at this time was for the most part fulfilling, although saddened by the loss of his nineteen-month-old son, Langdon, who died of diphtheria. Life in the Nook Farm community of writers and progressive thinkers and activists was proving to be all the Clemenses had hoped for. The 309 letters in this volume, more than half of them never before published, capture the events of these years with detailed intimacy. Thoroughly annotated and indexed, they are supplemented by genealogical charts of the Clemens and Langdon families, a transcription of the journals Clemens kept during his 1872 visit to England, book contracts, his preface to the English edition of The Gilded Age, contemporary photographs of family and friends, and a gathering of all newly discovered letters written between 1865 and 1871. This volume is the fifth in the only complete edition of Mark Twain's letters ever attempted, and the twenty-fourth in the comprehensive edition known as The Mark Twain Papers and Works of Mark Twain.
A Catalogue of a Unique and Interesting Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Unique ... Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets. Collected and Arranged by J. R. Smith
Author: John Russell SmithCatalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Item forms a comprehensive list of the British Museum, Department of Printed Books collection of catalogues of books sales and auctions held between 1676, the first time books were sold at aution in England, until the end of the ninteenth century.
A catalogue of the library of the London institution [by W. Upcott, R. Thomson and E.W. Brayley].
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Author: William UpcottBulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description