PLAYERS AND VAGABONDS

Roseboro', Viola [1857-1945]

Verlag: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1904

Beschreibung

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper as follows: "For Miss Grace Barnes | with affectionate regards, | from | V. R." Tipped on to the front pastedown is an ALS on blue paper in the same hand as the gift inscription, which reads as follows: "Dear Girl, If you have been as breathlessly busy since our delightful lunch as I have (and how can I doubt it?) you've hardly felt my unintentional tardiness in making this humble offering. I've been making a fight for a bit of [leisure? dinner?], and I'm going to get down soon! Cordially Viola Roseboro." vii[3]3-334p. Dedicated to Miss Jennie Worthington, Columbus, Mississippi, in part as follows: "When you did 'see the back of a curtain' (traditional initiation), you were with me and among the people of whom I write. Time and change and death have worked us many an ill since those days: the more thankful I for the blessings of my youth that are left me. In gratitude for a tie that is as it was then, I beg you to accept this dedication from your devoted friend, V. R." Brown cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine and with a wreath cartouche in green, gilt and white on the front cover of the traditional player's mask, a horn, and a sword, which design in abbreviated form is repeated on the spine. Top edge stained brown four? and bottom edges untrimmed. Some wear to the extremities with a couple of corners just barely rubbed through, covers very lightly soiled, gilt letters mainly bright, top and bottom of spine just barely beginning to fray, decorative design intact, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. PLAYERS AND VAGABONDS was the third book by Viola Roseboro? (sic), who is best known for having served as fiction editor for both McClure?s and Collier?s magazines. She is credited with introducing Willa Cather to McClure?s and in having ?discovered? Booth Tarkington and O. Henry. Her Jan. 30, 1945, NY Times obituary praised Roseboro? for her discerning eye for fiction and her mentorship of young writers, as well as her gifts as a conversationalist. She is said to have been the prototype for Willa Cather?s My Mortal Enemy and is the subject of a biography, Viola, The Duchess of New Dorp (1955). The ?Grace Barnes? of the gift inscription and A.L.S. may have been the woman who served as both artistic and administrative assistant to the stained glass artist John La Farge. This book consists of nine stories about the theater. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008620

Bibliografische Details

Titel: PLAYERS AND VAGABONDS

Verlag: The Macmillan Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1904

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition