Cheever, John | Two works, inscribed to John and Harriet Weaver

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Lot 9 | Cheever, John | Two works, inscribed to John and Harriet Weaver
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$ 1 000 – 1 500
Cheever, John
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. New York: Harper & Bros, [1958] [and] Oh What a Paradise It Seems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982

Together 2 vols., 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, spines stamped. Dust jackets; lightly worn. [Also with:] Frost, Robert. The Masque of Mercy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Blue cloth, spine gilt. Dust jacket; spine a little sunned, head and foot slightly worn. First edition. Signed by the author. — Kerouac, Jack. Satori in Paris. New York: Grove Press, [1966]. Blue cloth. Dust jacket. First edition.

First editions, inscribed by the author to John and Harriet Weaver.

Cheever and John Weaver met in the early 1940s in Astoria, Queens, where they were stationed during the war. They went on to exchange almost three hundred letters through the following forty years. They discussed Cheever's life and work, battles with alcoholism, marital difficulties, and more. These were published by Weaver in 1993 as Glad Tidings.
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