CHARLES MACOMB FLANDRAU | HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT PAGE
Framed handwritten manuscript, single page. In Very Good minus condition. In a silver painted wood frame, with a white cloth mat. Frame has scuffing to edges. This is the first page to the novel "Viva Mexico!", originally published in 1908 by D. Appleton and Company. Unsigned, but purportedly a manuscript copy in the hand of Charles Flandrau. The top corner of the page has been torn away, and has age toning overall. A portrait plate of Charles Macomb Flandrau is adhered to the back of the frame. Shelved.
1411630
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $2,500
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Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book A Bright Shining Lie, while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and artwork from their collection carries added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.