Sold by Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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First edition. Octavo. 64 pp. Publisher's black cloth with silver spine and cover lettering. original dust jacket in a cobweb design. Small chip to lowerr spine but a gorgeous copy of the book in an intriguing dust jacket.Laid in is a contemporary press [?] photograph of the author with text below reading - "Florence Ripley Mastin, whose book of poems, "Cables of Cobweb", has just been published by Harry Harrison. The jacket carries praises of her work by Harriet Monroe, Eunice Tietjens, and Charlotte Dean (poetry editor of the New York Times).Between roughly 1900 and 1967, the year before she died at age 81, Florence Ripley Mastin published probably hundreds of poems in newspapers and magazines, including more than 90 in the New York Times alone. She authored several books of poetry, and her work appeared approximately a dozen times in Poetry between 1918 and 1935. Mastin?s timing was lucky and unlucky. She was brash and butch and she loved women?one woman especially?but she died one year before the Stonewall riots. She was not a great poet, but she was lucky enough to be writing in a time where poetry was published in almost every daily newspaper, and commissioned for just about every public ceremony.Mastin?s entire working life was spent at Erasmus Hall High School in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, where she taught English and poetry writing for more than 40 years. She must have stood out in the halls with her short haircut and eclectically mannish sartorial style, but she was adored. Grace Beatrice MacColl, Mastin?s partner of some 50 years, was a fellow teacher at Erasmus" (Poetry Foundation).
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