sheean james (3 resultados)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. The Encore Press , N.H. , 1943 First Edition 128 page Vintage Digest Sized magazine . Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by John Dos Passos , Vincent Sheean, Carl Sandberg, Sir James Matthew Barrie and many others. See Photos A near fine copy with light edge wear anf light dust soiling to the covers . See Photos This week bx.

No Binding. Condición: Collectible-Fine. 5 x 8 paper, handwritten on both sides, excellent condition. "Bloms, St. Margaret's Bay, Kent" printed at top. Dated May 6, no year but circa 1936. James Vincent Sheean (1899-1975) was an American journalist and writer. His most famous work was "Personal History", an autobiography that earned a National Book Award in 1935. This letter is written to Malcolm Johnson (1902-1958), an executive vice president at Doubleday, Doran & Co. and then D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc. from 1937-1944. The letter concerns Sheean's translation of Eve Curie's biography of her mother, Nobel prize winning scientist Marie Curie. Sheean asks that the proofs be sent to him, and writes that he will have to do extensive corrections because, "I was so harassed by the corrections of innumerable people that I no longer had any control of the text . a hodge-podge of superior minds, under which I was lost." He also says, "I am sorry Eve is (apparently) so dissatisfied with the translation . All I can say is that I never wanted to do it in the first place.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Small 4to. Full calf with black lettering and borders. 174pp. Good plus. Scuffed and edgeworn, with chip at lead of spine and with occasional text pages edgeworn; internally very good. New endpapers. Tight and decent copy of this major revision of the ordinances of this early and influential northwest Illinois city, adopted hometown of U.S. Grant and briefly the lead mining capital of the world ("Galena" being Latin for "lead") that was supposed to be the great hub of the Midwest until Chicago's natural topographic advantage eclipsed it. Part I ("General Ordinances") spells out the nuts and bolts of this city government in great detail, including designating on page 76 the appearance of the official city seal ("a representation of a steamboat in the interior circle, with the words 'Seal of the City of Galena, Ills.,' in the exterior circle") and an actual impression of that blind-embossed circular seal on the page following. This section concludes on page 101 with a "Certificate" noting the acceptance of these revised ordinances by the city council; city clerk John B. French then signs boldly in ink, completing the partially-printed date of 1897 by adding June 29 and impressing the circular blind-embossed city seal once again. Part II ("Special Laws and Ordinances") completes the volume. Printed in a very modest quantity, this volume is rarely encountered.