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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

United States
About Item: This newspaper journalist turned novelist and magazine writer authored "Almanzar" (1918), "The Chinese Label" (1920) and "The Road to San Jacinto" (1936) before becoming director of the Texas Writer's Project of the federal Works Project Administration during the Depression, in which capacity he largely authored the 1940 "Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State"; not to be confused with other Texas writers whose names begin with "J. Frank" (Dobie, Norfleet, Norris). Two items: First, a TNS, 1p, 7¼" X 10½", San Antonio, Texas, 1923 January 9. Addressed to Albert Johannsen (1871-1962), a University of Chicago geology professor who authored "The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels" (1950), the definitive reference work on the subject. Fine. In response to a request for a working manuscript page, Davis notes: "The short story whose first page it is was scheduled, the last I heard, for publication in Hearst's International in the February number, which will be out about the twentieth… Read More
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