Lot 196
  • 196

Lowry, Malcolm

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Lowry, Malcolm
  • Typed letter signed, to Jonathan Cape
  • ink on paper
explaining that he has signed a contract with Random House and outlining his works in progress including Lunar Caustic ("...a wild novel set in a New York madhouse...") and Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid ("...the first of a sort of Under the Volcano trilogy..."), 1 page, 4to, Dollarton, BC, Canada, 24 July 1952, creased
[with:] a file of correspondence between Margerie Lowry, Earle Birney, Tom Maschler (retained copies), and others, on an edition of Lowry's poetry and other projects, including a draft introduction by Birney, in excess of 100 items, 1970s, nicks and creases