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Collecting Robert M. Coates
A core member of the “Lost Generation” community in Paris in the 1920s, Robert M. Coates befriended the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Malcolm Cowley. When his first novel was published in 1929, the dust jacket stated, “No other American writer of his generation has passed so thoroughly into legend.” Yet, for someone so well known and well regarded in his time, Coates is nearly forgotten today. He is ripe for rediscovery.
A Robert M. Coates Checklist
First editions in collector’s condition are difficult to find, particularly in dust wrappers.
Hemingway’s Book Collecting Doctor
When Ernest Hemingway and his pregnant second wife, Pauline, arrived in Kansas City in the summer of 1928, they sought the services of the city’s leading obstetrician, Dr. Don Carlos Guffey, who happened to be a book collector.
Andrea Barrett: The Science of Writing
Born in Boston and raised on Cape Cod, Andrea Barrett was trained as a marine biologist. Her interest in biological science first informed her writing, and later dominated it. Ship Fever, a collection of eight stories about the history of science, won the National Book Award in 1996.
Ten Years Ago
Leigh Brackett
Books into Film
Islands in the Stream