He is counting on my presence.' She writes of subtle resentment from various unnamed parties in Dublin: 'They asked me to open the ceremonies, but someone else is going to open the Dublin Whiskey bottles. Beach complains about her dentist, whom she calls her torturer, and says she would like to get away to see her friend 'this next weekend but Miss Leet is having a party and the Ambassador wouldn't like it if he didn't see me at it. TLS from Sylvia on her stationary to Carlotta dated May 15th, 1962, folded in fours with creasing. Near Fine with front board corner a little stained, very slight bowed as well, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket.Īlso laid in is a 46-line, 1pp. Original tan cloth with blue and black stamping to spine. Presentation copy signed by Sylvia Beach on the half title, inscribed to the husband of her childhood friend Carlotta Welles Briggs, 'For my old friend (see illustration no 10) Jimmy Briggs with much love from Sylvia October 4th 1959.' 230 pp.

At your next visit you might meet Gertrude Stein or Valery Larbaud or Claude Cahun.New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959.įirst edition. She notes the title on your lending library card and reminds you to return the book by the end of the week. You bring it to Sylvia, who seems to approve. (You’re relieved that Shakespeare and Company has fantasy novels.) But then you see a thin volume with a colorful cover: Woolf’s Kew Gardens (1919), recently published in a limited edition by Hogarth Press with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. You also consider, somewhat guiltily, Andrew Soutar’s Equality Island (1919). You consider Ezra Pound’s collection of essays, Pavannes and Divisions (1918), and Upton Sinclair’s muck-racking The Brass Check (1919). It’s out, but Sylvia suggests checking back later in the week. You ask about Virginia Woolf’s recent novel, Night and Day (1919). You look at recent magazines- The New Republic and The Dial, Poetry and Playboy.

She also notes your membership and payment in a logbook. Sylvia hands you membership card and creates a lending library card to keep track of your borrowing activities.

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach