Selected Letters 1955-1995
By 
May Sarton (1912-1995)

W.W. Norton & Company
New York
2002

Edited and Introduced by Susan Sherman, with a Foreword by Warren Keith Wright and An Appreciation by William Drake.
447 p.: Sixteen unpaginated pages, containing 50 illustrations; 24 cm. (9.5 inches).  Light brown cloth spine, with gilt-stamped spine title, brown paper over boards. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket, with front section photograph of May Sarton, 1971 by Eleanor Blair. Includes Appendix: Text of Letters and Passages of Letters in French; Unpublished Poems; Acknowledgments; Recipients; Credits; and Index. Deckled fore-edges.

First Edition, First Printing

"The engrossing drama begun in May Sarton: Selected Letters 1916-1954 culminates in this gathering of 200 quintessential letters, culled from thousands. Copiously annotated, they propel the reader with exhilarating immediacy through the rich years of this beloved author's maturity. . . . In addition to longtime friends and intimates familiar from Volume One - Louise Bogan, Eva Le Gallienne, Bill Brown, Muriel Rukeyser, and the Huxleys - the more than 150 recipients in this volume include Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bowen, Carolyn Heilbrun and Doris Grumbach, Madeleine L'Engle, Pat Carroll, and Marianne Moore" [from the dust jacket].

ISBN:  0393051110

Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked
Dust Jacket is in Fine/As New Condition: very slight shelf wear.  Nice Copy!


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