ARCHIVE consisting of 4 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)
by PATON, Alan
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Edgewear with some chipping and a few stains. Very Good
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Alan Paton (1903-1988) was a teacher, author, and activist celebrated for his 1946 work CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY, a work published just before the rise of the separatist National Party in South Africa. Paton, who vehemently opposed apartheid, organized an alternative political party called the Liberal Party of South Africa. He was punished for openly opposing government policy in various ways; in his 2 December 1980 letter, for example, he refers to how the government had confiscated his passport (this upon his return from New York in 1960). Paton addresses his curtailed rights frankly in his correspondence, even going so far as to juxtapose South African policy with American. Sylvia Lyons was the widow of Leonard Lyons (1906-1976), a popular serial columnist who produced 12,000 mostly arts-related newspaper columns over a forty-year period published in the NEW YORK POST under the heading "The Lyon's Den." Leonard and Sylvia Lyons were a dynamic couple who knew dozens of actors, musicians, writers, and Hollywood personalities through Leonard's work as a journalist. Paton is thus assured of Sylvia's interest in literary topics, commenting on popular books of the early 80s -- such as the novels of James Michener -- as well as recent book review projects. Paton published his third novel, AH, BUT YOUR LAND IS BEAUTIFUL in 1981, the same time that most of this correspondence was written.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019479
- Title
- ARCHIVE consisting of 4 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)
- Author
- PATON, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Letters
- Book Condition
- Used - Edgewear with some chipping and a few stains. Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Natal, South Africa
- Date Published
- 1980 - 1981
- Keywords
- Signed, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Alan Paton, Signed Letter, South African Literature, Archive, Apartheid
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Letter; South Africa;
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Charles Agvent
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