LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 09/21/1982 - HFSID 73593
Price: $320.00
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The leading American librarian and author informs friend that some of
his older books are being reprinted, and one has been optioned for a movie,
signs name in blue ink
Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in blue ink. 2 pages, 5½x8½.
Written on University of Arizona letterhead. Original envelope included. Tucson,
Arizona. September 21, 1982. In full: "Dear Connie - Many thanks for
the Knoff & Angelo copies. AAK is due here again in Feb. He has come each
winter for many years & we have fond reunions. I hear him interviews by NPR
on his 90th & he sounded good. Several of my books are coming back in print
this fall and winter: Calif. Classics (Capra), SW Booktrails (Gannon, Santa Fe,
SW Classics (U. of AZ Press). This last is the paperback remainder of the
Ritchie edition - 1750 copies they are giving a new t.p. & cover. Blue Train
has been optioned again for a film. Keep in touch! Fondly from Fay".
Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001) was an American librarian, literary
critic, bibliographer and author of more than one-hundred books. Powell
studied at Occidental College, later earning his doctorate from the University
of Burgundy in Dijon and his Certificate of Librarianship from UC Berkley in
1937. He gained his literary reputation as the University Librarian at the
UCLA Library and head librarian at the Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library
from 1944 to 1961, after which he was named the first dean of the School of
Library Service at UCLA (later the Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies). After retiring in 1966, Powell moved to Tucson where he
worked as Professor in Residence for nearly two decades at the University of
Arizona and played an instrumental role in the growth of their Graduate School
of Library Science. A Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lectures is held in
Tucson annually in his honor, and the Fay and Lawrence Clark Powell Endowment
for Southwest Research continues to support Powell's interest in the geography
of the southwest United States. His works include Books: West Southwest:
Essays on Writers, Their Books, and Their Land (1957), The
Southwest of the bookman (1974), An Orange Grove Boyhood: Growing
Up in Southern California, 1910-1928 (1988), and Eucalyptus Fair:
A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (1992). Normal mailing folds. Slightly
toned. Corners rounded. Light surface creases. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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