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Gore Vidal
In article d3VCd.704234$nl.1334@pd7tw3no,
"Willow Arune" wrote: I wrote to Gore Vidal in care of his publisher some months ago. while I enjoyed the American Empire series very much, for the purposes of my collection I was more interested in having "Myra Breckenridge" and "Myron" autographed. The post brought an envelope from him yesterday! His signature is similar to that eon the Web, but he seems to have had a stroke (or perhaps it is just a sign of aging) and the flow is gone. Such a delight I had to share!!! Willow very nice! did you mail the books or bookplates or ? -- It always comes and finds you - It will always hear you cry I cross my wooden leg, and I swear on my glass eye It will never leave you high and dry, never leave you loose It's harder to get rid of than tattoos |
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Actually neither. My post simply requested that he sign a notepaper or
personalized pad. He sent along his sig on what I take to be office desk pad paper, printed with his name. Oh yes, he also addressed the envelope by hand. Cool... Hugs, Willow "PostScript" wrote in message news In article d3VCd.704234$nl.1334@pd7tw3no, "Willow Arune" wrote: I wrote to Gore Vidal in care of his publisher some months ago. while I enjoyed the American Empire series very much, for the purposes of my collection I was more interested in having "Myra Breckenridge" and "Myron" autographed. The post brought an envelope from him yesterday! His signature is similar to that eon the Web, but he seems to have had a stroke (or perhaps it is just a sign of aging) and the flow is gone. Such a delight I had to share!!! Willow very nice! did you mail the books or bookplates or ? -- It always comes and finds you - It will always hear you cry I cross my wooden leg, and I swear on my glass eye It will never leave you high and dry, never leave you loose It's harder to get rid of than tattoos |
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A couple decades ago I spent a year or two fervently sending out requests
for signatures, and was pleasantly surprised at how many responded. I even got a hand-written rejection letter! (tongue-in-cheek, of course.) I suspect it's even better these days; with the prevalence of email, written correspondence is probably even rarer, and thus more appreciated. William Goldman was the only one I really wanted who didn't respond, twice. ---Mike http://www.booktouronline.com "Willow Arune" wrote in message news:MK0Dd.722430$%k.716127@pd7tw2no... Actually neither. My post simply requested that he sign a notepaper or personalized pad. He sent along his sig on what I take to be office desk pad paper, printed with his name. Oh yes, he also addressed the envelope by hand. Cool... Hugs, Willow "PostScript" wrote in message news In article d3VCd.704234$nl.1334@pd7tw3no, "Willow Arune" wrote: I wrote to Gore Vidal in care of his publisher some months ago. while I enjoyed the American Empire series very much, for the purposes of my collection I was more interested in having "Myra Breckenridge" and "Myron" autographed. The post brought an envelope from him yesterday! His signature is similar to that eon the Web, but he seems to have had a stroke (or perhaps it is just a sign of aging) and the flow is gone. Such a delight I had to share!!! Willow very nice! did you mail the books or bookplates or ? -- It always comes and finds you - It will always hear you cry I cross my wooden leg, and I swear on my glass eye It will never leave you high and dry, never leave you loose It's harder to get rid of than tattoos |
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William Goldman was the only one I really wanted who didn't respond,
twice. You can probably pick up a mint copy of Which Lie Did I Tell signed by him for the Franklin Library pretty reasonable. You might already have it though. |
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:55:32 GMT, "Willow Arune"
wrote: Love your web page - and even found a book I recognize... A.24 Kai Lung: Six Six previously uncollected stories. Contains: Introduction by William White, "The Story of Lam-Hoo and the Reward of Merit", "The Story of Chung Pun and the Miraculous Peacocks", "The Story of Yeun Yang and the Empty Soo-Shong Chest", "The Story of Sing Tsung and the Exponent of Dark Magic", "The Story Kwey Chao and the Grateful Song Bird", and "The Story Li Pao, Lucky Star and the Intruding Stranger." These were the final six stories published in his lifetime (all published in Punch magazine), and also the sixth Kai Lung book. a. Tacoma: The Non-Profit Press, 1974. xii. 58 pp. On verso of title page: "Of 250 copies for Private Distribution." Issued with dust wrapper. This is published by the group that I joined with in 1976 to publish "Hornblower - One More Time". Heaven only knows where my copy of this book went - it was given to me as a sample of what the group could do... This was before computers justified things, and I remember the painstaking process of putting the text together on a strange little machine. That fellow was a retired printer, as I recall, living on the Tqacoma waterfront. Another who assembled the book above was a teacher, in a small house cramed with books in every room. I met him in a small bookstore in Vancouver, B.C. on one of my regular visits. They met weekly in a small bar in downtown Tacoma, near the Mall but not on it, the round table being reserved.. Regards, Willow That would be "The Iron Horse" IIRC? An essay about the wonderful bibliophiles of Tacoma and their small press efforts and their collections is something that really needs to be written. I couldn't possibly do justice to the subject, having met Phil and Charlie only a handful of times but someone really ought to... Lanthorne Press, The Folly Press, Swan Press... All those wonderful little chapbooks of work by H. Warner Munn... Phil's collection of Clark Ashton Smith with several variant manuscript versions of "The Hashish Eater"... I recall that Phil's collection was immortalized in print with a chapbook published by Roy A. Squires. With (I believe) only 100 copies done, it is one of the rarest of the Squires publications. Cheers, John |
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