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Series: Books by Alvah Bessie
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8
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Men in Battle, originally published by Scribners, New York
: Clippings of reviews of the 1939 edition; a note written by the author for the , 1954 edition, published by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in , 1954, together with clippings of reviews; a list of publication dates up to , 1970, with extracts from reviews (jacket copy for the , 1977 edition?); clippings of reviews of the edition by Pinnacle Books, , 1977.
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9
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Men in Battle and Spain Again, the first, originally published in 1939 by Chandler and Sharp, Corte Madera, California, in 1975
: Clippings of reviews of the two books together.
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10
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The Un-Americans (New York: Cameron Associates, 1957)
: Clippings of reviews.
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11
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Inquisition in Eden (New York: Macmillan, 1965)
: Clippings of reviews.
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12
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The Symbol, novel by Alvah Bessie (New York: Random House, 1967)
: Clippings of reviews of the novel (including a column by Bessie himself on the reception) and of the television play The Sex Symbol Bessie adapted from it, broadcast by ABC in 1974; correspondence about the residuals to The Sex Symbol, , 1975.
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1
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13
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Spain Again (Corte Madera, California: Chandler & Sharp, 1975)
: Two pages from chapter 5 and carbon typescript of pages 236-272 (marked “dup” in pencil).
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1
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14-15
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One for My Baby, novel by Alvah Bessie (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980)
: Clippings and typescripts of reviews; correspondence, mostly 1974-1975, a few items up to , 1982, mostly on a possible screen adaptation.
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16-17
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Alvah Bessie's Short Fictions (Solo Flight and The Serpent Was More Subtil): (Corte Madera, California: Chandler and Sharp, 1983)
: Correspondence, bank statements and receipts for the savings account set up to take the subscriptions whereby this collection of previously published Alvah Bessie stories was published; prospectus, press releases, and reviews.
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18-19
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One Man in His Time, unfinished and unpublished autobiography
: Drafts, research materials.
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20
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Untitled short story, undated
: Incomplete typescript marked “dup”.
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