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Something to Remember Me By. Three Tales. The Bellarosa Connection A Theft Something To Remember Me By.

1991réf. 118778New York: The Viking Press 1991. First edition of this trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and “greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century” James Wood The New Republic. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Sally Soames Saul Bellow Chicago Oct 10 '91." The recipient British photojournalist Sally Soames worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin Margaret Atwood Margaret Thatcher Sean Connery Rudolf Nureyev Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames who was known to be a warm and personal journalist performed extensive research on the subjects of her photographs and developed intimate rapports with them during her process resulting in intimate and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph she captured the creative energy and personality of some of the world’s most gifted authors poets and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime Manpower 1987 with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers 1995 with a preface by Norman Mailer. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Herb Tauss. While Saul Bellow is known best for his longer fiction in award-winning novels such as The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog Something to Remember Me By will draw new readers to Bellow as it showcases his extraordinary gift for creating memorable characters within a smaller canvas. The loss of a ring in A Theft helps an oft-married woman understand her own wisdom and capacity for love. In The Bellarosa Connection Harry Fonstein has escaped from Nazi brutality with the help of an underground organization masterminded by the legendary Broadway impresario Billy Rose and his story continues in America . In the title story seventeen-year-old Louie—whose mother is dying of cancer—strays far from home and finds not solace but humiliation and ultimately the blessing of his father’s wrath. The Viking Press hardcover

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American Daughter and How I Beat Jim Crow in Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment - Vol IV No. 12 1946

1946réf. 614651Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Company 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. IV No. 12. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers tanned with moderate wear and soil a very good copy. A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing a "condensation" from Era Bell Thompsons's American Daughter an important memoir of Black life in Iowa and North Dakota later recognized for its excellence and republished in the Sixties. This issue also prints the recurring articles "How I Beat Jim Crow" and "If I Were an Negro" the former by Charles Clinton Spaulding the longtime President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company at the time of publication the largest Black-owned business in America and the latter by activist and author of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer Saul Alinsky and further titled "Beware the Liberals." This issue also with a four-page insert bound in advertising the NEW Negro Digest in full color as well as the articles "Who is a Negro The Inside Story of Two Million Negroes Who Passed for White" by Herbert Asbury condensed from Collier's; "A Southerner Looks at the South" by Hodding Carter condensed from The New York Times; "Acid Test of America" by Clare Booth Luce condensed from Today's Woman; "The Harlem Nobody Knows" by Bucklin Moon condensed from Glamour; and the recurring article "My Favorite War Hero" this month penned by Herbert M. Frisby who was a war correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon. Negro Digest Publishing Company unknown