PERKINS, Maxwell ARCHIVE consisting of 27 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) to novelist Alan Kapelner A sizable group of 27 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) dating from 1942 to 1946 to novelist Alan Kapelner, one of the last discoveries of famous Scribner'seditor Maxwell Perkins who worked on the first novels of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, and who died in 1947. Kapelner published two novels, LONELY BOY BLUES in 1944, on several neglected books lists, and ALL THE NAKED HEROES in 1960. Nearly all of the letters here aresingle page on Charles Scribner's Sons stationery and SIGNED in full. The correspondence begins with requests to see Kapelner's manuscript [LONELY BOY BLUES] as well as politely declining the author's requests for a job atScribner's. Some selections: "I should never think of making a decision on a book of such ability without reading it carefully,- and what's more, I amcertain that I shall personally enjoy it greatly." "Thomas Wolfe used to want me to go out and beat up critics--who often were bigger men than I-- but I never could see that any particular good could come of it." Several of the letters deal with specific advice about LONELY BOY BLUES, tentatively titled IN AT THE KILL. Wonderful archive from arguably the most important editor of the twentieth century whose advice resulted in often substantial changes and in the final versions of THE GREAT GATSBY, LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL, THE YEARLING, and FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, among others.Hemingway dedicated THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA to Perkins. Near Fine Price: USD 7,500.00 other currencies   order no. 014000    inquire

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