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-- Among the contents of this issue on Jewish literature are "Distinguished Lineage" and "Rest for the Nerves" by Isaac Bashevis Singer [in Yiddish with an English translation]; Paul Auster on Georges Perec; and contributions by Anthony Hecht, Leslie Fiedler, Charles Bernstein, Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz and many others. Very good .
Mudie writes to the editor of the New York World asking about the possibility of setting up an American lecture tour about the postwar condition of Central Europe. "During 1920 I had recourse to travel over all the European belligerent states and to administer relief in the new Republic of Czecho-Slovakia. I gathered much information political and economic while there and subsequently in the enemy states Austria Germany and Hungary". [The reply, from James Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau on behalf of the New York World editor, notes that the subject would be of interest to Americans but that setting up any lecture series would have to be preceded by a meeting since interest depends so much on the personality of the lecturer].
Doris Mudie was a British author and translator. She translated and edited, with Elizabeth Hill, "The Letters of Dostoyevsky to His Wife" [1930] and "The Letters of Lenin" [1937]. Mel Brooks' screenplay for "The Twelve Chairs" was based on an English translation by Mudie of the novel "Sitting on Diamonds" by Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Good .
Abdullah writes to future congressman Seymour Halpern that he is too busy to see anyone but "I am sending, by this mail, the signed picture to your friend."
Achmed Abdullah, who claimed descent from the Russian imperial family and was educated in England, emigrated to the United States in the 1910s. He went on to become an American author and screenwriter, most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films and earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay for the 1935 film "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer".
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co- sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Good .
First edition.
Inscribed by the author in the year of publication "To Eugene / with the best of wishes" and signed "Kofi Awoonor / 11/28/1992".
Kofi Awoonor [1935-2013] was killed in the Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya in September 2013. With his death, Ghana lost a much loved and respected poet, literary critic and elder statesman. Awoonor was the author of novels, poems, plays, political essays and literary criticism. In the early 1970s, he served as Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Stonybrook, returning to Ghana in 1975 to teach at the University College of Cape Coast. Awoonor grew up in the newly independent Ghana. His outspoken political views, his close friendship with its first president Kwame Nkrumah, and his fierce loyalty to the Ewe traditions of his grandmother, made him a controversial figure and under the military rulers who held power in the 1970s, he was arrested and jailed for ten months for allegedly being involved in a 1975 coup plot. In the last two decades, Awoonor contributed to the development of Ghana's democracy, both as a oounselor to the head of state and as Ghana's ambassador to the United Nations from 1990 to 1994. Very good .
First edition of this volume of Awoonor's poetry.
Inscribed by the author "For Yvette / Best wishes / Kofi Awoonor ".
Kofi Awoonor [1935-2013] was killed in the Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya in September 2013. With his death, Ghana lost a much loved and respected poet, literary critic and elder statesman. Awoonor was the author of novels, poems, plays, political essays and literary criticism. In the early 1970s, he served as Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Stonybrook, returning to Ghana in 1975 to teach at the University College of Cape Coast. As a poet, he was noted for his linguistic versatility, drawing on his knowledge of several languages and cultural traditions--Ewe, Akan, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Awoonor grew up in the newly independent Ghana. His outspoken political views, his close friendship with its first president Kwame Nkrumah, and his fierce loyalty to the Ewe traditions of his grandmother, made him a controversial figure and under the military rulers who held power in the 1970s, he was arrested and jailed for ten months for allegedly being involved in a 1975 coup plot. In the last two decades, Awoonor contributed to the development of Ghana's democracy, both as a oounselor to the head of state and as Ghana's ambassador to the United Nations from 1990 to 1994. Fine .
First edition, wraps issue.
Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Suzanne Schaffer / with every pleasure and hope you enjoy these. / Don Axinn". Very good .
Second printing.
Inscribed by the poet on the title page: "For Suzanne Schaffer / with all best wishes, / Donald E. Axinn". Very good .
L. L. Hammerich was Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Copenhagen and Chairman of the Lecturers Committee [Danish Lecturers Abroad] since its commission by the Danish Ministry of Education in 1937. Towards the end of World War II he set out to document his country's achievements in the field of international education and to promote a vision of cultural cooperation that would counter the destruction and isolation created by the war. The text is in Danish. Very good .
Number 30 in the series "Sesame Booklets". Good .
First edition.
Signed in full by Leonard Bacon on the front endpaper. Very good .
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