MARKHAM, Beryl.
West With the Night.
"The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down": First Edition of West With The Night; Signed by Beryl Markham in the Year of Publication
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942.
$3,750.00
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Item Number: RRB-26014
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First edition of the aviator's classic work. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "With best wishes Beryl Markham June 1942." Near in a very good dust jacket with some closed tears. Uncommon signed, especially in the year of publication.
Ernest Hemingway wrote in a letter to editor Maxwell Perkins: "Did you read Beryl Markham’s book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer’s log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and some times making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people’s stories, are absolutely true I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book."
West With the Night.
$3,750.00
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