important association copy of the author's first book
SONTAG, Susan.
The Benefactor.
New York, Farrar, Straus and company, 1963.
The recipients were the American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator Richard Howard, and his partner, the American novelist Sanford 'Sandy' Friedman. Sontag has called Howard 'a very central figure in our culture, maintaining and giving eloquent voice and illustration to standards that are in peril today. Richard and I go back a long way. He's my first serious literary friend. He's not the first writer I ever met, but he was my first profound chum, ally, buddy, accomplice, brother in literature. We met soon after I came to New York in the beginning of the sixties, and we immediately started cooking up projects - things we wanted to sponsor and impose.'
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author; 8vo; occasional underlining and marginalia in the hand of Richard Howard, including a few notes to the front free endpaper and rear jacket flap, some staining to fore-edge of final 70pp; publisher's quarter black cloth, black paper covered boards, spine lettered in green and white, with the unclipped dust-jacket by Janet Halverson, toned, slight rubbing to folds, small losses to upper spine edge and external tape repair to front panel.
Stock code 117125
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The Benefactor.
WOOLF, Virginia.
Orlando: A Biography.
1928.
A signed, limited edition copy of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicholson, Vita Sackville-West's son, declared Orlando to be 'the longest love letter in literature', 1928
£6,500.00
WOOLF, Virginia; STRACHEY, Lytton.
Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters.
1956.
A handsome first edition of Virginia Woolf anf Lytton Strachey Letters, Edited by Leonard Woolf and James Strachey.
£225.00
PLATH, Sylvia.
Two Uncollected Poems.
1980.
A limited edition copy of The Uncollected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
£325.00
