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VOLTAIRE ESSAYS AND ANOTHER Signed w/ TLS

1962réf. 1413067London: Oxford University Press 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 10 181 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket and Very Good plus TLS. In full brown cloth binding. Jacket is green and white spine sunned to tan with black and green lettering. Jacket is wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket is lightly age toned with rubbing wear along edges and at the corners. Wrinkling at head and tail of spine. Price unclipped: "25s. net". Boards show light rubbing along edges and at the fore corners. Head and tail of spine are lightly bumped. Text block is lightly age toned. Interior clean. Inscribed to Susan Sheehan here as Susan Black by Besterman on half title page: "For Susan Black / with love / Th. B.". TLS is housed in its original envelope. Letter is folded into fourths and discusses the state of the Library of Congress potential travel plans and an upcoming work of Besterman's. Signed "Th." in blue ink. Shelved in Room F. . Inscribed by Theodore Besterman to Susan Sheehan here addressed under the name Susan Black "with love" and accompanied by a typed letter signed "Th." this copy records a personal association between Sheehan and one of the major Voltaire scholars of the twentieth century. Besterman a bibliographer editor and scholar became the central English-language figure in modern Voltaire studies: he founded what became the Voltaire Foundation edited Voltaire's vast correspondence and directed the Institut et Musée Voltaire at Les Délices Voltaire's former residence in Geneva. Voltaire Essays and Another published by Oxford University Press in 1962 belongs to this period of intense scholarly activity. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan born 1937 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1413067. Special Collections - Upstairs. Oxford University Press hardcover