BALDWIN JAMES Typed Letter Signed Jim with three holograph c

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"G'S ROOM . . . DOESN'T . . . SEEM TO HAVE WRECKED MY CAREER" BALDWIN, JAMES. Typed Letter Signed, "Jim," with three holograph corrections and holograph address, to editor Samuel L. Blumenfeld ("Dear Sam"), reporting that he is finishing a new novel [Another Country?] and that the "new book" [Giovanni's Room] is doing well. 1 page, 4to; folds. With the original envelope. L'Île-Rousse, [from postmark: 26 November 1956]

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. . . "Have fled Paris for the winter, a move dictated by my finances and my health, am in Corsica to finish my new novel and prepare myself for the great shock of my rentree sur scene. . . .
"New book seems to be selling fairly well--this is as of a couple of weeks ago, it may have been remaindered by now. Have seen some pretty good reviews. So far, so good. Am too terribly tangled up in the new novel, thank God, to worry too much about G's Room--which doesn't, anyway, seem to have wrecked my career, as certain people said it would. . . ."
with--Typed letter, unsigned, file copy of Blumenfeld's reply to Baldwin's letter, praising Giovanni's Room. 1 page, 4to. [New York], 5 Dec[ember 1956].