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William Eastlake Papers and Archive: Manuscripts and Letters by EASTLAKE, William

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Title: William Eastlake Papers and Archive: Manuscripts and Letters
Author: EASTLAKE, William
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1995. Near Fine. Archive of the American author William Eastlake consisting of several original book length manuscripts, corrected proofs, and over 100 letters to him, and other associated documents. Included are corrected typescript manuscripts for five of his major novels, including the first two novels of his acclaimed Checkerboard Trilogy: *Go in Beauty* and *The Bronc People*. Among the letters are 28 from Edward Abbey, author of *The Monkey Wrench Gang*, together with multiple letters from other leading contemporary authors and personal friends, including William Van Tilburg Clark, Jim Harrison, John Nichols, Martha Gelhorn, Barry Lopez, Ray Carver, Gary Snyder, Studs Terkel, Tim O'Brien, Robert Redford, and others, all rich in literary and personal content. Larry McCaffery noted: "Back in the late 50s and early 60s, William Eastlake was single-handedly changing the scope, poetic range, thematic assumptions, and treatment of character - especially that of Native Americans - of the Western genre. His surreal, humorous, was a decisive influence on later novelists such as Larry McMurtry and Tom McGuane." It can be argued that Eastlake had an influence on Cormac McCarthy as well. Born in Brooklyn in 1917, and raised in Caldwell, New Jersey (as an infant he and his older brother Gordon were sent to Bonnie Brae, an Episcopal boarding school in nearby Liberty Corners, New Jersey). Eastlake hitchhiked across the United States and made his way to Los Angeles in the early 1940s, where he worked at the Stanley Rose bookstore: frequented by the writers Nathanael West, John Steinbeck and William Saroyan, and the artist Martha Simpson, whom he married in 1943. During the war Eastlake enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Camp Ord in California, where he was assigned to oversee draftees of Japanese ancestry into the U.S. Army. He led a battalion at the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the Bronze Star. After the war he stayed in Europe and became an editor for the literary magazine *Essai*, to which he contributed his first published short story: "Ishimoto's Land," about his experiences with Japanese American soldiers. He lived in Paris and returned to southern California in 1950. In 1955, he and his wife purchased a ranch near Cuba, New Mexico, with four hundred acres of land, which became a mecca for several writers and artists, including Edward Abbey, Julian and Juliette Huxley, and many others whose letters are retained in the collection. At his ranch near Cuba, Eastlake wrote many of his novels set in New Mexico and the Southwest, including the manuscripts for three novels in this collection: *Go in Beauty* (1956), *The Bronc People* (1958), and *Dancers in the Scalp House* (1975). At the height of the Vietnam War Eastlake was a correspondent for *The Nation*, stationed in Vietnam (1968-69) [cf. letter from Ernie Pyle]. Eastlake also wrote war novels and political novels, of which this collection includes the manuscripts of *Castle Keep* (1965: a "Gothic mystery, savage modern satire, heroic epic" set during World War II), and *The Bamboo Bed* (1969: one of the first novels to dramatize the insanity of the Vietnam War). Eastlake's *Castle Keep*, about U.S. soldiers trying to defend a Belgian castle filled with art treasures during the Battle of the Bulge was made into a 1969 movie directed by Sydney Pollack, and starring Burt Lancaster and Peter Falk. Other collection highlights among the manuscripts include: the screenplay and two corrected typescripts (an early draft and final setting copy) of *Castle Keep*; together with corrected typescripts of *The Bamboo Bed* and *Dancers in the Scalp House*. Also notable is publisher William Bamberger's retained archive of Eastlake's short story collection: *Jack Armstrong in Tangier* (1984), consisting of typescripts, pre-publication drafts and galleys, and associated correspondence. Among the letters in the collection, most were written to Eastlake by contemporary authors in Eastlake's literary circle, and most are notable for their remarkable literary and personal content. Here is but a small taste from the 28 letters by Edward Abbey, most of which date from the mid-1970s, when his most famous novel *The Monkey Wrench Gang* was in publication: Kanab, Utah, February 22, 1971: "... I wonder if you or Doug Peacock could refer me to some of the literature on sabotage - industrial and civil, bridges, power plants, dams, etc. What I need is detailed information on techniques and materials. For a novel only - not for real. I've about decided to postpone work on my Pennsylvania agricultural Tolstoyan novel ... and do now an idea which I've had in my head for years. To be called The Monkey Wrench Gang - or maybe The Wooden Shoe Mob ... Destroy this letter. (I am 87% paranoid these days) ..." Two letters from the novelist Martha Gellhorn include reflections on Russian literature, Vietnam, Iraq, and a lengthy discussion of her relationship with Ernest Hemingway: "... As for E.H. and being an artist. I cannot separate artist from man .... I believe that the quality of the man must come through into his art. The artist is, and must be, more of an egotist than most because no one protects him in the long early stages, so he protects himself like mad ... But somehow, despite that professional deformation, the heart has to stay pretty clean or else a faint smell of corruption lingers about the work. I tried to make Ernest be something I could admire; an idiot undertaking ..." Jim Harrison's three letters include his views on writing and Edward Abbey, and four letters from Barry Lopez contain references to his current works in progress, including an essay on "the native American mind," his appearance on the Dick Cavett show, and Lopez's forthcoming collection of fiction *River Notes*. Here is what the sculptor and writer Juliette Huxley (wife of British naturalist Julian Huxley), writes in one of two remarkable letters from 1966-67: "This book of yours, Castle Keep. It is like a gothic carving, not of saints, but of men of ordinary flesh ... The words are shot with poetry, the blood blossoms and flowers as it is split. It is a strange and rare experience to read such a book, where the unique craft of the writer is disguised but transcends, the violence is made acceptable by the craft, and exploding death becomes a thing of utter beauty ... I have just finished it, and Julian read it first, as spellbound as I am." Four long letters from the novelist John Nichols, one of which includes drawings, are refreshingly obscene, especially in regard to his own work, and in a letter from 1979, Robert Redford expresses his regret that he could not make Eastlake's novel *Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses* into a film, stating (in part): "I have long been an admirer of your writing, particularly 'Castle Keep,' and thus read 'Twenty-Six Horses'... Unfortunately, in this particular script I just couldn't see the story on screen ... I'm sorry not to be able to take on this project but I'm grateful for the chance to see material with such vision and insight. Perhaps the future will see us working together on something ..." A remarkable collection, rich in content with numerous manuscripts and letters, documenting the works and life of this important American writer. A detailed finding aid to the archive is available upon request.

The Last Thing the Revered Mahatma Gandhi Ever Wrote Known to Be in Private Hands by Mahatma Gandhi

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Title: The Last Thing the Revered Mahatma Gandhi Ever Wrote Known to Be in Private Hands
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 22/01/1948. This fragment states that “leaders doing the [right thing] was proving infectious”Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. Gandhi had been an astute political campaigner who fought for and won Indian independence from British rule, and championed the rights of the Indian poor. His example of non-violent protest set the example for Martin Luther King and others, and is still revered throughout the world today.Gandhi’s biography states: “He stopped at the thresholds of the huts of the thousands of dispossessed, dressed like one of their own. He spoke to them in their own language. Here was living truth at last, and not only quotations from books, for this reason the Mahatma [Great Soul], the name given to him by the people of India, is his real name. Who else has felt like him that all Indians are his own flesh and blood? When love came to the door of India, that door was opened wide. At Gandhi's call India blossomed forth to new greatness, just as once before, in earlier times, when Buddha proclaimed the truth of fellow-feeling and compassion among all living creatures.”In early September 1947, Gandhi moved to Delhi to help stem the rioting there and in the neighboring province of East Punjab. The rioting had come in the wake of the British partition of India into a largely Hindu India and largely Muslim Pakistan. The creation of the new independent dominions of India and Pakistan involved large, chaotic transfers of population between them, and there was violence and uprooted populations. Some Hindus saw the sufferings of Hindu refugees escaping from Pakistan as unbearable.Meanwhile, by late 1947, India and Pakistan were already at war over the province of Kashmir. The government of India, led by Congress Party leaders, had withheld a payment due to Pakistan in January 1948 because it did not want to finance Pakistan, which was at war with India at that time. Gandhi opposed the decision to freeze the payment as inconsistent with agreement, and on January 13, 1948, went on a fast-unto-death to pressure the Indian government to release the payment to Pakistan. The Indian government, yielding to Gandhi, reversed this decision, and Hindu extremists interpreted this sequence of events to be a case of Gandhi controlling power and hurting India and Hindus. The very day Gandhi went on his hunger strike the plot to assassinate him began to be planned. The hunger strike ended January 18.On January 20, 1948, two days after the termination of the fast, an attempt was made to throw a bomb at Gandhi as he was addressing a prayer meeting in the Birla House compound. The bomb exploded some fifty yards away from where he was sitting, but nobody was injured. A Hindu youth, described as a refugee from the West Punjab, was arrested and an unexploded hand-grenade was recovered from his pocket. The explosion was loud enough to be heard at a far-off distance. Gandhi remained unruffled. When Gandhi spoke, he referred to his statement that he might now proceed to visit Pakistan. But that, he explained, could only happen, if the Pakistan Government were convinced that he was a man of peace and friend of the Muslims and would, therefore, like him to go to Pakistan. He would, however, in any case, have to wait, till the doctors declared him fit to undertake the journey. This willingness to go to Pakistan further angered Hindu extremists. He also stated, referring to the sufferings of the Hindu and the Sikh refugees, that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was doing all that was possible in order to bring them speedy relief.Gandhi’s biography offers this description: “Speaking after prayers on January 21, Gandhi referred to the previous day’s bomb explosion. He had been receiving anxious inquiries and praise for being unruffled during the accident. He thought that it was military practice and, therefore, nothing to worry about. He had not realized, till after the prayers, that it was a bomb explosion and that the bomb was meant against him. God only knew how he would have behaved in front of a bomb aimed at him and exploding. Therefore, he deserved no praise….What he wanted to convey was that no one should look down upon the misguided young man who had thrown the bomb. He probably looked upon the speaker [Gandhi] as an enemy of Hinduism. After all, had not the Gita said that whenever there was an evil-minded person damaging religion, God sent some one to put an end to his life?“The youth should realize that those who differed from him were not necessarily evil…Continuing he said, that some Sikh friends came and said that he should not think that the Sikhs had anything to do with the bomb explosion. He knew that the youth was not a Sikh. But what did it matter, whether he was a Sikh or a Hindu or a Muslim? He wished well to all perpetrators. He had told the Inspector-General of Police also, not to harass the youth in any way. They should try to win him over and convert him to right thinking and doing. He hoped that the youth as well as his guides would realize their error. For, it was a wrong done to Hinduism and to the country. He expected the audience to go on with the prayers, in spite of bomb explosions or a shower of bullets.”The next day, January 22, was the first time after the fast that Gandhi was able to walk to the prayer ground. He said in his prayer speech that he was slowly gaining strength and, God willing, he hoped to return to his normal health before long. Again quoting from his biography, Gandhi’s remarks were in part related to government leaders setting the right example. The fragment offered here is highlighted in bold.Autograph manuscript fragment, written on scrap paper, being edits Gandhi was making for publication of his January 22 speech. It is undated but it is after January 22, so in the last 8 days of his life. Gandhi said that a friend had written to him that although Pandit Nehru and other ministers and the officials might lodge some refugees in their houses, that would not even touch the fringe of the refugee problem. The speaker agreed that the ministers and the officials together could not house more than a few thousands at the most. The virtue of the offer consisted not in the ""number so to be accommodated, but in the fact that the example of the leaders doing the act was proving infectious."" All civilized people, Gandhi went on to say, would appreciate and value such acts of leaders of men.8 days later, he was killed by an assassin.Our research cannot find any example in Gandhi’s hand, whether letter, manuscript, or document, dated after this one having reached the public market. This may well be the last thing Gandhi ever wrote in private hands.

Poèmes by Beckett, Samuel

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Title: Poèmes
Author: Beckett, Samuel
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1968. First edition. 2 p.l., 9-30 p., 1 l. 20 cm. Wrappers. One of 550 numbered copies from a total edition of 762 copies on Rives. Fine, unopened.

Rona Barrett's Hollywood. April 1975. by Barrett, Rona.

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Title: Rona Barrett's Hollywood. April 1975.
Author: Barrett, Rona.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: Magazine, glossy covers, illustrated, 82 pp. A little spine and cover wear, normal aging of contents; otherwise very good plus. This is an issue that covers The Godfather Part II. Also, coverage of Linda Blair and the Earthquake film

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