Local note | Inscribed on half-title "For Stuart Wright ... Madison Smartt Bell" and autographed on title page "Madison Smartt Bell. February 23, 1983." Includes dust jacket. Laid in are a publisher's press release; a brochure advertising The Washington square ensemble, autographed by Bell, April 4, 1984; a brochure of poems by Cathryn Hankla with a biographical sketch; a clipping from George Robert Minkoff, Inc. Rare Books catalog; an invitation to Wright to attend the reception celebrating the first issue of The crescent review; and a Viking Press with compliments card. Stuart Wright Book Collection #165.1. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Madison Smartt Bell Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |