Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape.

TURNER, Frederick. [Elaine Steinbeck].

$400.00

Item Number: 131433

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1989.

First edition of the award-winning author’s work on the great American novelists; from the library of Elaine Steinbeck. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Elaine Steinbeck – such a pleasure to meet & talk with – Sincerely, Frederick Turner.” With the original typed transmittal letter signed by Turner and addressed to Elaine reminding her of their meeting at a party in Key West and commenting about the chapter on her late husband in the present volume. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Christine Taylor.

Turner's Spirit of Place is devoted to nine great American authors, each chapter describing the artist in the place he or she made special: Mark Twain in Hannibal; William Faulkner in the Mississippi delta; and George W. Cable in New Orleans' French Quarter, testifying to the vitality of the American landscape as a continuing source of artistic and spiritual nourishment.