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	1 My Lifetime In Letters. University of Missouri Press, Columbia: 1960. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition with plastic covering Over a period of many years, Mr. Sinclair's wife set aside some 7,000 of his letters as being of special interest. From them, Mr. Sinclair has selected 300 of them, which are here published and collected for the first time. In addition to the letters, Sinclair has written a series of engaging comments on these letters. This is a signed copy. Includes an index. ¶ 412 pages. USD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.5 \| £UK 54 \| JP¥ 8003] Book number: 15745SX1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ABBOTT, JACK HENRY; MAILER, NORMAN (INTRODUCTION). In The Belly Of The Beast: Letters From Prison. Random House, New York: 1981. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. In the middle of writing The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer received a letter from a federal prisoner named Jack H. Abbott who wanted to warn him that very few people knew much about the violence in prisons and who offered to clarify some aspects of Gary Gilmore's life. Mailer began to correspond with Abbott, and made a startling literary discovery: the convict's direct, intense prose was decidedly powerful; his letters were extraordinary for their clarity, vividness and ferocity. In the Belly of the Beast brings together Abbott's letters to Mailer, edited and arranged according to: Abbott's background as a state-raised convict; the bizarre forms of punishment practiced in American prisons; the experience of long-term solitary confinement; the uses and abuses of sex and drugs in prison; the doomed relationship between inmates and guard; the complex behavior of prisoners among themselves; the political philosophy that Abbott has forged from his unique vantage point; his view on the American system of justice, parole and rehabilitation - and more. We have before us the most intense, I might even say the most fiercely visionary book of its kind in the American repertoire of prison literature. In the Belly of the Beast is awesome, brilliant, perversely ingenuous; its impact is indelible, and as an articulation of penal nightmare it is completely compelling. - Terrence Des Pres, The New York Time Book Review ¶ 167 pages. USD 11.20 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 996] Book number: 66896X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AGEE, JAMES. Letters Of James Agee To Father Flye. Bantam Books, New York: October 1963. Softcover. Very good reading copy. A starkly revealing account of the internal and external life of a tortured twentieth-century genius. ¶ 217 pages. USD 5.15 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 458] Book number: 4798X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA; MCMILLAN, PRISCILLA JOHNSON (TRANSLATED BY). Twenty Letters To A Friend. Harper & Row, New York: 1967. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition book club edition with small tears to jacket. The author has used one of the oldest and most flexible literary forms - the letter to the unidentified friend, who is essentially, each reader of her book - to relate the harrowing journey of one soul, one consciousness, through three dark decades of totalitarian tyranny which sowed terror throughout an entire nation and reached every corner of her personal life. ¶ 246 pages. USD 7.25 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 645] Book number: 15275X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AMORY, MARK (EDITOR). The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh. Ticknor & Fields, New Haven: 1980. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. ¶ 664 pages. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1245] Book number: 46238X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AMORY, MARK (EDITOR). The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1980. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 664 pages. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 49197X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AMORY, MARK (EDITOR). The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh. Ticknor & Fields, New Haven: 1980. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Good condition. ¶ 664 pages. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1245] Book number: 46238X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ANDERSON, SHERWOOD; WHITE, RAY LEWIS (INTRODUCTION & EDITOR). Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters: For Eleanor, A Letter A Day. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge: 1991. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Found by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson only after Sherwood Anderson's death in 1941 and then preserved intact by this grieving widow who had married Anderson in 1933, the carefully hidden letters of 1932 recording their intense and seemingly doomed loved affair have remained secret until now. Chosen by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson before her death in 1985 to publish her husband's secret love letters, Anderson scholar Ray Lewis White has prepared a fascinating edition of these unique letters. Includes an Index. ¶ 292 pages. USD 21.70 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1930] Book number: 36059X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ARENDT, HANNAH & MARTIN HEIDEGGER. Letters, 1925-1975. Harcourt, Inc., Orlando: 2004. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand New Copy. When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his earnest young student. The ravages of history would soon take them in quite different directions. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Heidegger became rector of the university in Freiburg, delivering a notorious pro-Nazi address that has been the subject of considerable controversy. Arendt, a Jew, fled Germany the same year, heading first to Paris and then to New York. In the decades to come, Heidegger would be recognized as one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, while Arendt would establish herself as a voice of conscience in an age of war. This correspondence offers a glimpse into the inner lives of two major philosophers. Includes bibliography and an index. ¶ 335 pages. USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 19 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2490] Book number: 14946X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAIRD-SMITH, ROBIN. Living Water: An Anthology Of Letters Of Direction. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids: 1987. Softcover. Good condition. This collection spans the centuries. Although most of the letters were written before the advent of modern psychology they reveal an understanding of the human condition that is timeless. Includes an Index. ¶ 204 pages. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 978] Book number: 31770X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BARRENO, MARIA ISABEL; HORTA, MARIA TERESA; DACOSTA, MARIA VELHO. The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters. Doubleday & Company, Garden City: 1975. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Dustjacket is worn. ¶ 432 pages. USD 6.75 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 600] Book number: 48674X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BERLIN, ISAIAH; HARDY, HENRY (EDITOR). Letters 1928-1946. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2004. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Isaiah Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the most famous English thinker of the post-war era, and the focus of growing interest and discussion. Above all, he is one of the best modern exponents of the disappearing art of letter-writing. 'Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends,' wrote Berlin to a correspondent. This first volume inaugurates a long awaited edition of his letters that might well adopt this remark as an epigraph. Berlin's life was well worth living, both for himself and for the world. Fortunately he said a great deal to his friends on paper as well as in person. Berlin's letters reveal the significant growth and development of his personality and career over the two decades covered within them. Starting with his days as an eighteen year old student at St. Paul's School in London, they cover his years at Oxford as scholar and professor and the authorship of his famous biography of Karl Marx. The letters progress to his World War II stay in the U.S. and finally, his trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-6 and return to Oxford in 1946. Emotional exploitation, cannibalism, which I think I dislike more than anything else in the world. To Ben Nicolson, September 1937 Valery delivered an agreeable but dull lecture here. He said words were like thin planks over precipices, and if you crossed rapidly nothing happened, but if you stopped on any of them and stared into the gulf you would get vertigo and that was what philosophers were doing. To Cressida Bonham Carter, March 1939 I never don't moralize. To Mary Fisher, 18 April 1940 I only feel happy when I feel the solidarity of the majority of people I respect with and behind me. To Marion Frankfurter, 23 August 1940 Certainly no politics are more real than those of academic life, no loves deeper, no hatreds more burning, no principles more sacred. To Freya Stark, 12 June 1944 Nobody is so fiercely bureaucratic, or so stern with soldiers and regular civil servants, as the don disguised as temporary government official armed with an indestructible superiority complex. To Freya Stark, 12 June 1944 My view on this is that you will not find life in the country lively enough for persons of your temperament. Life in the country in England depends entirely on (a) motor cars (b) rural tastes. As you possess neither, it is my considered view that apart from a weekend cottage or something of that sort, life in the country would bore you stiff within a very short time. To his parents, 31 January 1944 This country is undoubtedly the largest assembly of fundamentally benevolent human beings ever gathered together, but the thought of staying here remains a nightmare. To his parents, 31 January 1944 I am a hopeless dilettante about matters of fact really and only good for a column of gossip, if that. To W. J. Turner, 12 June 1945 England is an old chronic complaint: every day in the afternoon in the left knee and the left leg below the kneecap, tiresome, annoying, not bad enough to go to bed with, probably incurable and madly irritating but not necessarily unlikely to lead to a really serious crisis unless complications set in. To Angus Malcolm, 20 February 1946. Meticulously edited and ably annotated by the indefatigable Hardy, this first installment of a projected three-volume set of correspondence provides an indispensable window into the soul and mind of one of the 20th century' most notable intellectual figures. Highly recommended. H. I. Einsohn, Middlesex Community College, Choice ¶ 756 pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 44436X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BERLIOZ, HECTOR; SEARLE, HUMPHREY (EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR FROM THE FRENCH). Hector Berlioz: A Selection From His Letters. Harcourt, Brace & World, NY: 1966. Hardcover with dustjacket and protective mylar covering. Good condition. Library discard. The correspondence begins when Berlioz was sixteen and continues to his death at 66. Among the devoted friends and enemies who appear in these letters are Victor Hugo, Frederick Chopin, George Sand, Robert Schuman, Balzac and Paganini. Includes an Index. ¶ 224 pages. USD 38.45 [Appr.: EURO 26 \| £UK 23.25 \| JP¥ 3419] Book number: 6507X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BLUM, JOHN MORTON (EDITOR). Public Philosopher: Selected Letters Of Walter Lippmann. Ticknor & Fields New York: 1985. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. ¶ 652 pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 45369X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH. Letters And Papers From Prison. Collins, London: 1960. Softcover. Reading copy. A collection of letters and papers smuggled out of prison written by this German clergyman whom the Nazis executed in a Gestapo prison in 1945. Includes an Index. ¶ 192 pages. USD 5.15 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 458] Book number: 5362X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH. Letters And Papers From Prison. Macmillan, New York: 1979 Softcover. Very good reading copy. A collection of letters and papers smuggled out of prison written by this German clergyman whom the Nazis executed in a Gestapo prison in 1945. Includes an Index. ¶ 437 pages. USD 5.10 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 453] Book number: 10840X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DU BOS, CHARLES & GIDE, ANDRE. Lettres De Charles Du Bos Et Reponse De Andre Gide. Correa, Paris: 1950. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Library discard. Cette correspondance s'etend de 1911 a 1935, elle comprend quarante-six lettres de Charles Du Bos et trente-sept d'Andre Gide. Des etres comme vous et moi - esprits critiques, auto-critiques surtout - (je me refuserai toujours a voir la des defauts) - sont des etres de dialogue, et non des etres d'affirmation. - Andre Gide. ¶ 214 pages. USD 49.95 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4442] Book number: 32692X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BOWLES, PAUL; MILLER, JEFFREY (EDITOR). In Touch: The Letters Of Paul Bowles. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York: 1993. Softcover. Good condition. An extraordinary collection of correspondence spanning eight decades. Provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. The descriptive passages found in the letters often rival those of his novels and stories. - Michael Upchurch, The New York Times Book Review. ¶ 604 pages. USD 18.20 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1618] Book number: 27808X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRANDES, GEORG; KRUGER, PAUL (LETTRES CHOISIES ET ANNOTEES). Correspondance De Georg Brandes Iii - L'allemagne. Rosenkilde og Bagger, Copenhague: 1966. Softcover. Fair condition. Il y a des lettres entre Georg Brandes et Paul Heyse, Arthur Fitger, Gerhart Hauptman, Friedrich Nietsche, R. M. Rilke, Clara Rilke, Ruth Rilke, et Andreas Latzko. Avec un Index. ¶ 536 pages. USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 101 \| £UK 90 \| JP¥ 13338] Book number: 29750X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROOKE-LITTLE, J. P. An Heraldic Alphabet. Robson Books, London: 1985. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 226 pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 43538X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROOKE, DOROTHY (SELECTED BY). Private Letters Pagan And Christian: An Anthology Of Greek And Roman Private Letters From The Fifth Century Before Christ To The Fifth Century Of Our Era. E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1930. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Library discard. Includes letters by Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Epicurus, Themistocles, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Augustus, Martial, Pliny the Younder, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine, Emperor Julian Libanius, Saint Paul, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine, Synesius, and Sidonius, Includes a Biographical Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 19.70 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1752] Book number: 27978X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BUCKLEY, JR., WILLIAM (EDITOR). Odyssey Of A Friend: Whittaker Chambers Letters To William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York: 1969. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The dustjacket isbeginning to tear. The letters from Whittaker Chambers to William Buckley, Jr. are published here because, manifestly, in writing those letters, the author was struggling to write out a personal statement, his enduring witness. Includes an Index. ¶ 303 pages. USD 24.50 [Appr.: EURO 16.5 \| £UK 14.75 \| JP¥ 2179] Book number: 31083X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BYRNE, MURIEL ST. CLAIRE; BOLAND, BRIDGET (SELECTED & ARRANGED BY); TREVOR-ROPER, HUGH (FOREWORD). The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1983. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Good condition. Originally assembled in search of evidence to be used in the trial for treason of Arthur Plantagenet. They were written from 1533 to 1540 , when Lord Lisle was Deputy of Calais and all the family's many affairs in England, France, and Calais had to be conducted by correspondence. Includes an Index. A fascinating family saga, a sixteenth century War and Peace or A la recherche du temps perdu... - Hugh Trevor-Roper ¶ 436 pages. USD 9.45 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 840] Book number: 8817X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CARPENTER, HUMPHREY (EDITOR). The Letters Of J. R. R. Tolkien. Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston: 1981. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good reading copy with some tears to the DJ. From this rich collection one sees a mind of immense coimplexity and many layers--artistic, religious, charmingly eccentric, sentimental and ultimately briliant. Includes an Index as well as an Index of names from Tolkien's books. ¶ 463 pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 19324X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CARSON, RACHEL & FREEMAN, DOROTHY; FREEMAN, MARTHA (EDITOR & PREFACE); BROOKS, PAUL (BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION). Always, Rachel: The Letters Of Rachel Carson And Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964. Beacon Press, Boston: 1994. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. These letters span the writing of The Edge of the Sea and of Silent Spring. They illuminate the creative turmoil Carson underwent as she wrote, her moments of despair and then of calm assurance that she had done what she imagined doing, and her sense of destiny as a writer. Includes an Index. ¶ 567 pages. USD 19.75 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1756] Book number: 11962X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.

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	1 My Lifetime In Letters. University of Missouri Press, Columbia: 1960. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition with plastic covering Over a period of many years, Mr. Sinclair's wife set aside some 7,000 of his letters as being of special interest. From them, Mr. Sinclair has selected 300 of them, which are here published and collected for the first time. In addition to the letters, Sinclair has written a series of engaging comments on these letters. This is a signed copy. Includes an index. ¶ 412 pages. USD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.5 \| £UK 54 \| JP¥ 8003] Book number: 15745SX1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ABBOTT, JACK HENRY; MAILER, NORMAN (INTRODUCTION). In The Belly Of The Beast: Letters From Prison. Random House, New York: 1981. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. In the middle of writing The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer received a letter from a federal prisoner named Jack H. Abbott who wanted to warn him that very few people knew much about the violence in prisons and who offered to clarify some aspects of Gary Gilmore's life. Mailer began to correspond with Abbott, and made a startling literary discovery: the convict's direct, intense prose was decidedly powerful; his letters were extraordinary for their clarity, vividness and ferocity. In the Belly of the Beast brings together Abbott's letters to Mailer, edited and arranged according to: Abbott's background as a state-raised convict; the bizarre forms of punishment practiced in American prisons; the experience of long-term solitary confinement; the uses and abuses of sex and drugs in prison; the doomed relationship between inmates and guard; the complex behavior of prisoners among themselves; the political philosophy that Abbott has forged from his unique vantage point; his view on the American system of justice, parole and rehabilitation - and more. We have before us the most intense, I might even say the most fiercely visionary book of its kind in the American repertoire of prison literature. In the Belly of the Beast is awesome, brilliant, perversely ingenuous; its impact is indelible, and as an articulation of penal nightmare it is completely compelling. - Terrence Des Pres, The New York Time Book Review ¶ 167 pages. USD 11.20 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 996] Book number: 66896X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AGEE, JAMES. Letters Of James Agee To Father Flye. Bantam Books, New York: October 1963. Softcover. Very good reading copy. A starkly revealing account of the internal and external life of a tortured twentieth-century genius. ¶ 217 pages. USD 5.15 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 458] Book number: 4798X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA; MCMILLAN, PRISCILLA JOHNSON (TRANSLATED BY). Twenty Letters To A Friend. Harper & Row, New York: 1967. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition book club edition with small tears to jacket. The author has used one of the oldest and most flexible literary forms - the letter to the unidentified friend, who is essentially, each reader of her book - to relate the harrowing journey of one soul, one consciousness, through three dark decades of totalitarian tyranny which sowed terror throughout an entire nation and reached every corner of her personal life. ¶ 246 pages. USD 7.25 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 645] Book number: 15275X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AMORY, MARK (EDITOR). The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh. Ticknor & Fields, New Haven: 1980. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. ¶ 664 pages. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1245] Book number: 46238X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AMORY, MARK (EDITOR). The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1980. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 664 pages. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 49197X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	AMORY, MARK (EDITOR). The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh. Ticknor & Fields, New Haven: 1980. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Good condition. ¶ 664 pages. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1245] Book number: 46238X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ANDERSON, SHERWOOD; WHITE, RAY LEWIS (INTRODUCTION & EDITOR). Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters: For Eleanor, A Letter A Day. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge: 1991. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Found by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson only after Sherwood Anderson's death in 1941 and then preserved intact by this grieving widow who had married Anderson in 1933, the carefully hidden letters of 1932 recording their intense and seemingly doomed loved affair have remained secret until now. Chosen by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson before her death in 1985 to publish her husband's secret love letters, Anderson scholar Ray Lewis White has prepared a fascinating edition of these unique letters. Includes an Index. ¶ 292 pages. USD 21.70 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1930] Book number: 36059X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ARENDT, HANNAH & MARTIN HEIDEGGER. Letters, 1925-1975. Harcourt, Inc., Orlando: 2004. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand New Copy. When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his earnest young student. The ravages of history would soon take them in quite different directions. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Heidegger became rector of the university in Freiburg, delivering a notorious pro-Nazi address that has been the subject of considerable controversy. Arendt, a Jew, fled Germany the same year, heading first to Paris and then to New York. In the decades to come, Heidegger would be recognized as one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, while Arendt would establish herself as a voice of conscience in an age of war. This correspondence offers a glimpse into the inner lives of two major philosophers. Includes bibliography and an index. ¶ 335 pages. USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 19 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2490] Book number: 14946X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAIRD-SMITH, ROBIN. Living Water: An Anthology Of Letters Of Direction. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids: 1987. Softcover. Good condition. This collection spans the centuries. Although most of the letters were written before the advent of modern psychology they reveal an understanding of the human condition that is timeless. Includes an Index. ¶ 204 pages. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 978] Book number: 31770X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BARRENO, MARIA ISABEL; HORTA, MARIA TERESA; DACOSTA, MARIA VELHO. The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters. Doubleday & Company, Garden City: 1975. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Dustjacket is worn. ¶ 432 pages. USD 6.75 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 600] Book number: 48674X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BERLIN, ISAIAH; HARDY, HENRY (EDITOR). Letters 1928-1946. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2004. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Isaiah Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the most famous English thinker of the post-war era, and the focus of growing interest and discussion. Above all, he is one of the best modern exponents of the disappearing art of letter-writing. 'Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends,' wrote Berlin to a correspondent. This first volume inaugurates a long awaited edition of his letters that might well adopt this remark as an epigraph. Berlin's life was well worth living, both for himself and for the world. Fortunately he said a great deal to his friends on paper as well as in person. Berlin's letters reveal the significant growth and development of his personality and career over the two decades covered within them. Starting with his days as an eighteen year old student at St. Paul's School in London, they cover his years at Oxford as scholar and professor and the authorship of his famous biography of Karl Marx. The letters progress to his World War II stay in the U.S. and finally, his trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-6 and return to Oxford in 1946. Emotional exploitation, cannibalism, which I think I dislike more than anything else in the world. To Ben Nicolson, September 1937 Valery delivered an agreeable but dull lecture here. He said words were like thin planks over precipices, and if you crossed rapidly nothing happened, but if you stopped on any of them and stared into the gulf you would get vertigo and that was what philosophers were doing. To Cressida Bonham Carter, March 1939 I never don't moralize. To Mary Fisher, 18 April 1940 I only feel happy when I feel the solidarity of the majority of people I respect with and behind me. To Marion Frankfurter, 23 August 1940 Certainly no politics are more real than those of academic life, no loves deeper, no hatreds more burning, no principles more sacred. To Freya Stark, 12 June 1944 Nobody is so fiercely bureaucratic, or so stern with soldiers and regular civil servants, as the don disguised as temporary government official armed with an indestructible superiority complex. To Freya Stark, 12 June 1944 My view on this is that you will not find life in the country lively enough for persons of your temperament. Life in the country in England depends entirely on (a) motor cars (b) rural tastes. As you possess neither, it is my considered view that apart from a weekend cottage or something of that sort, life in the country would bore you stiff within a very short time. To his parents, 31 January 1944 This country is undoubtedly the largest assembly of fundamentally benevolent human beings ever gathered together, but the thought of staying here remains a nightmare. To his parents, 31 January 1944 I am a hopeless dilettante about matters of fact really and only good for a column of gossip, if that. To W. J. Turner, 12 June 1945 England is an old chronic complaint: every day in the afternoon in the left knee and the left leg below the kneecap, tiresome, annoying, not bad enough to go to bed with, probably incurable and madly irritating but not necessarily unlikely to lead to a really serious crisis unless complications set in. To Angus Malcolm, 20 February 1946. Meticulously edited and ably annotated by the indefatigable Hardy, this first installment of a projected three-volume set of correspondence provides an indispensable window into the soul and mind of one of the 20th century' most notable intellectual figures. Highly recommended. H. I. Einsohn, Middlesex Community College, Choice ¶ 756 pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 44436X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BERLIOZ, HECTOR; SEARLE, HUMPHREY (EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR FROM THE FRENCH). Hector Berlioz: A Selection From His Letters. Harcourt, Brace & World, NY: 1966. Hardcover with dustjacket and protective mylar covering. Good condition. Library discard. The correspondence begins when Berlioz was sixteen and continues to his death at 66. Among the devoted friends and enemies who appear in these letters are Victor Hugo, Frederick Chopin, George Sand, Robert Schuman, Balzac and Paganini. Includes an Index. ¶ 224 pages. USD 38.45 [Appr.: EURO 26 \| £UK 23.25 \| JP¥ 3419] Book number: 6507X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BLUM, JOHN MORTON (EDITOR). Public Philosopher: Selected Letters Of Walter Lippmann. Ticknor & Fields New York: 1985. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. ¶ 652 pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 45369X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH. Letters And Papers From Prison. Collins, London: 1960. Softcover. Reading copy. A collection of letters and papers smuggled out of prison written by this German clergyman whom the Nazis executed in a Gestapo prison in 1945. Includes an Index. ¶ 192 pages. USD 5.15 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 458] Book number: 5362X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH. Letters And Papers From Prison. Macmillan, New York: 1979 Softcover. Very good reading copy. A collection of letters and papers smuggled out of prison written by this German clergyman whom the Nazis executed in a Gestapo prison in 1945. Includes an Index. ¶ 437 pages. USD 5.10 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 453] Book number: 10840X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DU BOS, CHARLES & GIDE, ANDRE. Lettres De Charles Du Bos Et Reponse De Andre Gide. Correa, Paris: 1950. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Library discard. Cette correspondance s'etend de 1911 a 1935, elle comprend quarante-six lettres de Charles Du Bos et trente-sept d'Andre Gide. Des etres comme vous et moi - esprits critiques, auto-critiques surtout - (je me refuserai toujours a voir la des defauts) - sont des etres de dialogue, et non des etres d'affirmation. - Andre Gide. ¶ 214 pages. USD 49.95 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4442] Book number: 32692X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BOWLES, PAUL; MILLER, JEFFREY (EDITOR). In Touch: The Letters Of Paul Bowles. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York: 1993. Softcover. Good condition. An extraordinary collection of correspondence spanning eight decades. Provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. The descriptive passages found in the letters often rival those of his novels and stories. - Michael Upchurch, The New York Times Book Review. ¶ 604 pages. USD 18.20 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1618] Book number: 27808X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRANDES, GEORG; KRUGER, PAUL (LETTRES CHOISIES ET ANNOTEES). Correspondance De Georg Brandes Iii - L'allemagne. Rosenkilde og Bagger, Copenhague: 1966. Softcover. Fair condition. Il y a des lettres entre Georg Brandes et Paul Heyse, Arthur Fitger, Gerhart Hauptman, Friedrich Nietsche, R. M. Rilke, Clara Rilke, Ruth Rilke, et Andreas Latzko. Avec un Index. ¶ 536 pages. USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 101 \| £UK 90 \| JP¥ 13338] Book number: 29750X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROOKE-LITTLE, J. P. An Heraldic Alphabet. Robson Books, London: 1985. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 226 pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 43538X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROOKE, DOROTHY (SELECTED BY). Private Letters Pagan And Christian: An Anthology Of Greek And Roman Private Letters From The Fifth Century Before Christ To The Fifth Century Of Our Era. E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1930. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Library discard. Includes letters by Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Epicurus, Themistocles, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Augustus, Martial, Pliny the Younder, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine, Emperor Julian Libanius, Saint Paul, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine, Synesius, and Sidonius, Includes a Biographical Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 19.70 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1752] Book number: 27978X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BUCKLEY, JR., WILLIAM (EDITOR). Odyssey Of A Friend: Whittaker Chambers Letters To William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York: 1969. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The dustjacket isbeginning to tear. The letters from Whittaker Chambers to William Buckley, Jr. are published here because, manifestly, in writing those letters, the author was struggling to write out a personal statement, his enduring witness. Includes an Index. ¶ 303 pages. USD 24.50 [Appr.: EURO 16.5 \| £UK 14.75 \| JP¥ 2179] Book number: 31083X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BYRNE, MURIEL ST. CLAIRE; BOLAND, BRIDGET (SELECTED & ARRANGED BY); TREVOR-ROPER, HUGH (FOREWORD). The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1983. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Good condition. Originally assembled in search of evidence to be used in the trial for treason of Arthur Plantagenet. They were written from 1533 to 1540 , when Lord Lisle was Deputy of Calais and all the family's many affairs in England, France, and Calais had to be conducted by correspondence. Includes an Index. A fascinating family saga, a sixteenth century War and Peace or A la recherche du temps perdu... - Hugh Trevor-Roper ¶ 436 pages. USD 9.45 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 840] Book number: 8817X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CARPENTER, HUMPHREY (EDITOR). The Letters Of J. R. R. Tolkien. Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston: 1981. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good reading copy with some tears to the DJ. From this rich collection one sees a mind of immense coimplexity and many layers--artistic, religious, charmingly eccentric, sentimental and ultimately briliant. Includes an Index as well as an Index of names from Tolkien's books. ¶ 463 pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 19324X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CARSON, RACHEL & FREEMAN, DOROTHY; FREEMAN, MARTHA (EDITOR & PREFACE); BROOKS, PAUL (BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION). Always, Rachel: The Letters Of Rachel Carson And Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964. Beacon Press, Boston: 1994. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. These letters span the writing of The Edge of the Sea and of Silent Spring. They illuminate the creative turmoil Carson underwent as she wrote, her moments of despair and then of calm assurance that she had done what she imagined doing, and her sense of destiny as a writer. Includes an Index. ¶ 567 pages. USD 19.75 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1756] Book number: 11962X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.