Edinburgh: Canongate, 2017. Paperback. From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire's resident advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to the largest and smallest issues of..... More
New York: Shocken Books, 1966. Peter Mendelsund (cover design). Second Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother..... More
London: Penguin Books, 1970. Eighth Printing. Trade Paperback. The last volume of Orwell's collected essays, journalism and correspondence. Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. Katy Homans (cover design). First Printing. Trade Paperback. Edited by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke, and Johannes von Moltke, with an afterword by Rachel Seiffert, a new translation from the German by Shelley Frisch. An NYRB Classics Original Tegel..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2017. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
London: Vintage Classics, 2013. Dan Wakefield (ed.). Reprint. Paperback. This collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and..... More
New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and his longtime editor, Maxwell Perkins. More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right-the wine glass has more impact than the cup. -Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named..... More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Displaying the same verve and wit as the Just So Stories, this charming collection brings together the series of letters Rudyard Kipling wrote to his children—his "dear people" as he called them—from 1906 to 1915. The correspondence with..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2012. First Trade Paperback Edition, First Printing. Softcover. A literary milestone in its own right, this selection of correspondence connects us as never before to one of the greatest writers of our time. Saul Bellow was winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and..... More
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