Selected Essays 1917-1932 [with Weldon Kees signature]

Eliot, T. S.

Verlag: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1944

Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944; later printing of 1932 edition; 415pp. Presumably once the copy of poet Weldon Kees, with his signature on front end page. Also on front end page is the address label of artist Barbara M. (Scholz) Beecher, artist and wife of activist and poet John Beecher. Together, the Beechers ran Morning Star Press (later renamed Rampart Press). "Barbara Marie Scholz was born in San Francisco on March 3, 1925 to Carl Paul and Elizabeth Eda (Unsinn) Scholz. In 1947, she also studied at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. While living in Oakland, she studied oil painting with Jonathan Batchelor, and it was while living here that she met Beecher. Within one month of meeting they were married on August 16, 1955. Together, she and Beecher won Huntington Library?s Western Books Awards, and her block printing was praised in Roderick Cave?s work The Private Press. She is also included in The American Book Collector, and Lois Rather?s Women as Printers. After her spouse?s death, Barbara returned to Burnsville, North Carolina, where they had once lived together and continued to paint until her death on December 22, 2016." (John and Barbara Beecher: An Inventory of Their Papers at the Harry Ransom Center). Beecher's Burnsville, NC post office box is printed on the clear address label. Due to Kees's untimely and mysterious disappearance in 1955, his signature is exceptionally scarce. Missing dust jacket. Binding is sturdy and fully intact; moderate amount of wear to edges of navy blue cloth boards, gilt titling faded but legible; a few scattered pencil marks in text/margins of Eliot's essay on Dante, else text very good. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 319364

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Selected Essays 1917-1932 [with Weldon Kees ...
Verlag: Harcourt, Brace & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 1944
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Missing
Signiert: Signed by Other