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BALDWIN FAITHABAA

Autograph Signature of Author Faith Baldwin

BALDWIN FaithABAA

Typed Letter Signed

1958251171958. BALDWIN Faith. Typed Letter Signed. Two pages on both sides of a single sheet; hand-written in ink: "Rt. 2 Meed Ave. Norwalk Conn Sept. 26/58." Note: There are numerous typing errors and hand-written corrections in ink throughout the letter and spelling errors are for the most part not noted in the follow textual description- as there are many. To a teacher in California Baldwin apologizes for the delay in her response to several questions posed by the teacher. "I can reply to your questions only informally and in bad typing as I have never used a secretary and employ two fingers." Baldwin discusses several of her books and writes that Many Windows will be published on her 65th birthday. "About education. I don't have the true equivalent of a high school education. Mrs. Dow's school did give courses which if passed took you into college; but I wasn't interested in college; I was about 17 and a ga half sic when I left Mrs. Dow's. The education in Germany was during the war and consisted of house keeping school didn't learn a thing and of German which I learned. I am not sorry I didn't go to college; I think I would have frittered away my time and probably flunked. I was not a good student for I was far too lazy." Baldwin goes on in some detail about advising students to go to college "if it is possible" and discusses the benefits of a college education and the difficulty of supporting herself as a writer. "You can only eat while you write if you have rich parents or generous and/or a well-heeled husband or wife." Baldwin writes about the demands for college degrees in the business world and says she always advises her students to at least have a good secretarial degree "for this is really an open door. I have seen one advance from typist to private secretary to asst. editor and then editor on a national magazine." Baldwin continues about her father's profession lawyer and her mother's a grade-school teacher and her family's background missionaries editors etc. "It's tougher if you are born into a family without the cultural background but that can be overcome by education." She writes "in this era a college education is extremely valuable and certainly a high school education a must." Also signed by Baldwin as "Mrs. Hugh Cuthrell." Baldwin was known for typing her manuscripts quickly but inaccurately and. <br/><br/> unknown books

Antic Hay Books · États-Unis275,00 $US≈ 232,68 €

Baldwin Faith; Delmar Vina; La Farge Oliver; Carrel Bart; Tuckerman Arthur; Brown Royal; Kantor MacKinlay; Cronin AJ.; RABAA

Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine January 1935 - All-Star Christmas Issue No. 583

19352036634International Magazine Company Inc 1935. Magazine. Very Good. LaGatta John. A few faint corner creases closed tear on rear wrapper along spine base. 1935 Magazine. 170 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. John LaGatta illustration on front wrapper Lucky Strike cigarette advertisement on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements photographs and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886 and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905 who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952 the year after Hearst's death. During this period it published the first appearances of many novels and short stories by notable authors some complete within one magazine others as serials. Includes: a complete short novel: Career by Faith Baldwin; nine short stories: The Innkeeper's Wife by Vina Delmar; The Goddess Was Mortal by Oliver La Farge; A Matter of Money by Bart Carrel; Some Day I May Surprise You by Arthur Tuckerman; Love and Vacuum Cleaners by Royal Brown; Mountain Music by MacKinlay Kantor; Christmas for Agnes by A.J. Cronin; Breach of Promise by Damon Runyon; Without Benefit of Jury by Peter B. Kyne; three serials: Don't Ever Leave Me by Katharine Brush; Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas; Blow Desert Winds! by William Corcoran; seven articles: The Lighted Candle by Mary Roberts Rinehart; Dictators: American Style by Frank Hanighen; Five Years. What Have They Done to Us by a Symposium of Famous Americans; The Best Gift of All by Mrs. George B. Simmons; Hollywood is My Home Town by Louella O. Parsons; No Santa Didn't Bring Me That Bobsled! by O.O. McIntyre; Diamond Jim by Parker Morell; one special feature: At the Metropolitan Opera by McClelland Barclay & Deems Taylor. International Magazine Company, Inc unknown books

Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA · États-Unis60,00 $US≈ 50,77 €

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