Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them [from the personal library of LOUISE CRANE, with her ownership signature]

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1972

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201pp., xviii. Copyright page: '1970, 1972'; No 'FPu(y)', NAP, No number line; NO Book Club deboss on rear cover: probably First Edition, later printing, or a FE, an exception to Beacon Press code. No jacket. Medium brown boards with dark brown cloth spine and brilliant gilt lettering. Index, pp. 195-210. Essays collected: "On the Unity of Misery and the Diversity of Happiness"; "Of War, Cruelty, and General Human Nastiness"; "Of Hunger, Toil, Injustice, and Oppression";"Of Heresy, Intellectual Freedom, and Scholarship"; "Of Predatory Democracy: the USA"; "Some Prospects for Predatory Democracy". Book is in NF condition, only blemish being a faint 1/2" slight fading across top front cover only, evidently due to shelving adjacent to a shorter book, else Fine. Binding still secure (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls), NO rubbing wear. Clean text. Previous ownership signature at top right ffep, that of 'Louise Crane' (Wikipedia): "Louise Crane (November 11, 1913 October 20, 1997), a prominent American philanthropist. Crane was a friend to some of New York Citys leading literary figures, including Tennessee Williams and Marianne Moore. / Crane's father was Winthrop Murray Crane, an American millionaire and former governor of Massachusetts. Her mother was Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) co-founder Josephine Porter Boardman. Louise smoothly moved into the role of patron of the arts. She was a prominent supporter of jazz and orchestral music, initiating a series of "coffee concerts" at MoMA and commissioning a vocal and orchestral work by Lukas Foss. She represented musicians, including Mary Lou Williams. Crane collaborated also with her mother in sponsoring musical works.[2] / Crane met Elizabeth Bishop while classmates together at Vassar in 1930. The pair traveled extensively in Europe and bought a house together in 1937 in Key West, Florida. While Bishop lived in Key West, Crane occasionally returned to New York. Crane developed a passionate interest in Billie Holiday in 1941. / Crane published Ibérica, a Spanish-language review, with her partner, Victoria Kent, from 1954 to 1974. Ibérica featured news for the expatriate Spanish community in the United States. Kent was a prominent member of the Spanish Republican party, opposed to Franco. Many prominent writers, including Salvador Madariaga, contributed to Ibérica. / Following her mother's death in 1972, Crane and Kent lived together in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Redding, Connecticut. Crane was the executor of Marianne Moore's estate after her death in 1972. / Crane lived for years in an 18-room apartment on the fourth floor of the 820 Fifth Avenue building, a luxury cooperative in Manhattan, New York City. Located at the northeast corner of East 63rd Street on the Upper East Side, the 12 story limestone-clad was designed in the neo-Italian Renaissance palazzo style by Starrett & van Vleck, and was built by Fred T. Ley in 1916. The fourth floor is one of only a few units in the building which have changed hands multiple times in the last 10 or 20 years. After Cranes death in 1997, the apartment was sold to Tommy Hilfiger for around $10,000,000.[2]". …

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Titel
Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them [from the personal library of LOUISE CRANE, with her ownership signature]
Autor
Moore, Jr., Barrington
Verlag
Beacon Press, Boston, MA
Erscheinungsjahr
1972
Zustand
Fine
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
Abmessungen
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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