CHOMSKY NOAM: (1928- )

CHOMSKY NOAM: (1928- ) American professor and public intellectual, known for his work in linguistics and sometimes referred to as ´the father of modern linguistics´. Small selection of three T.Ls.S., Noam Chomsky, each one page (folding air mail stationery), 8vo and slim 4to, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1978 - August 1979, all to Stephen Brook. In the first letter Chomsky declines a publishing project owing to his travel plans, ´I´m afraid things will be extremely hectic. I´d rather not make any arrangements for that time, in anticipation of impending disaster´ (14th December 1978), in the second letter stating, in part, ´You asked about the possibility of co-publishing forthcoming work of mine in linguistics. I´d be quite happy to see such an arrangement, though in the past I have always left the matter of foreign publication to the publishers themselves. At the moment, I have a book in press (Rules and Respresentations...... I have no idea what, if any, arrangement they may have made for overseas publication and distribution). While I was in Italy I worked out most of the material for another book, a rather technical linguistics monograph that will be based on lectures that I gave in Pisa, probably more or less in the format of lectures. I´ve arranged for publication of that book with a Dutch publisher. Foris publications, which has inaugurated a very good linguistic series. I have plans, in fact contracts, with several other publishers for both technical and more popular books, so as you can see, I´m pretty well programmed - too well for my taste - for the next several years´ (30th June 1979), and in the third letter also briefly referring to current contracts he has for two books with American publishers, remarking ´Each is only in the planning stage, I am afraid, and I have no idea when they will be completed´ (6th August 1979). Very slightly irregularly torn to some edges and with a few staples to the upper left corners, otherwise VG, 3 Stephen Brook (1947- ) English author and wine journalist, a former editor of The Atlantic Monthly Magazine and publisher at Routledge, Kegan & Paul from 1976-80.