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"Several of the characters in these stories, as well as much of the material and nearly all the locales, were come by in the summer of 1931 during a stay in the Adirondack Mountains in the company of Nathanael West. For some while prior, he'd been trying to complete the revision of his second book, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' and I'd been trying to write 'The Water Wheel,' my first. ... On our return to New York in September, West invited me to put up at the Sutton--as a non-paying guest, of course--and of course I accepted. I remained there for the better part of six months, during which time the first five of these stories were written. Under my then name, Julian L. Shapiro, they were published in 1932, three of them in Pagany and two in Contact, and apart from a few descriptive pieces that had appeared in the Paris vanguard magazines Tambour and The New Review, they're my earliest printed work. ... I have taken another name since those days, but I've not seen fit to tamper with the stories. ... I have changed after forty-five years, I suppose ... but the stories have not been touched"--From foreword, dated 6 April 1976.
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Description of a riot in Bordeaux, France occasioned by the failure of a balloon flight in strong winds, with extensive details about the attempted flight and the balloon itself (six months after the first manned balloon flight in history). In French.
mssHM 83999
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ff. 1-138v [Devotions]: ff. 1-28: One Hundred Meditations on the passion; ff. 28-35: Prayers to the wounds of Christ; ff. 35-43: Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; ff. 43-52: Eight papal indulgences accompanying the relevant prayers; ff. 52-67v: Prayers before and after Communion; ff. 67v-79: Prayers; ff. 79v-86: Rosary; ff. 86-102v: Fifteen Sorrows of the Virgin, Seven Joys of the Virgin, and other prayers to the Virgin including the O Intemerata; ff. 102v-113: Farced Salve Regina; ff. 113-117: Three prayers revealed by the Virgin to St. Mechtilde; ff. 117-136: Prayers to the Trinity, to the Virgin, to one's guardian angel, to Michael, John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, Andrew, James, John the Evangelist, Stephen protomartyr, the 10,000 martyrs, Lawrence, Pantaleon, Sebastian, Augustine (prayer in feminine form, for a nun), Martin, Nicholas, Bernard, Roch, Catherine, Barbara, Agnes, Ursula, 11,000 Virgins, Cecilia, Mary Magdalene, Anne, Elizabeth, Erasmus, All Saints; ff. 136v-138v, now blank but under ultraviolet light, an added text in Latin and in French.
mssHM 1249
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The author relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington.
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Proof for the foreword to the Kamashastra edition of Burton's translation of Arabian Nights, found in the first volume. Corrections written in ink and pencil of various colors. Includes table of contents of first volume, which is also corrected and has page numbers written in ink. It is unclear who is responsible for inscribing the corrections found throughout.
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Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 2-pp. report, "1st Ten Leaders in each major classification of newspaper advertising in the U.S., first 11 months, 1981"; "1st Ten Leaders in each major classification of newspaper advertising in the U.S., first 11 months, 1974"; [ditto] 1972; more material, various combinations of data, LAT vs. national competitors, 1950s,1960s, 1970s, and up to 1985.
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