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Collecting David Lavender
As he predicted he would, Mark Twain died with the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1910. Fortunately, the comet brought another writer with it, David Sievert Lavender. He tried ranching, mining and teaching before he turned to his true calling. Beginning with his reminiscence One Man’s West, Lavender wrote a series of novels and histories that rival the books of his great contemporaries Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.
Collecting Literary Ephemera
An author collection does not necessarily end with the finding all the books. Some of the most intriguing material may be the ephemera. For example, what Norman Mailer collection would not be enhanced by a handbill from his 1969 campaign for Mayor of New York?
Cheyenne Autumn: A Special BOOKS INTO FILM
Ever since Howard Fast’s novel The Last Frontier was published in 1941, film director John Ford wanted to make a picture out of the story of the flight of the Northern Cheyenne from the reservation in Oklahoma to their homeland in North Dakota. By the time he finally got backing in 1963, Mari Sandoz’ Cheyenne Autumn, which covered the same topic from a different point of view, had been published as well.
Previously in FIRSTS
April 1991: Anne Tyler and James Hilton
April 2001: Clive Cussler and John Le Carré