My Studio Window: Sketches of the Pageant of Washington Life

Marietta Minnigerode Andrews

Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, 1928

About this Item

Second printing, August 1928. Original boards with checkered pattern and black cloth spine. Edges and corners of boards are worn. Glue stain on front pastedown where bookplate was removed, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Light crease to a few pages of front matter. 51 illustrated silhouette-portraits by the author and one other illustration, on plates. xix, 450 pages. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve. Thirty-two years of Washington society, observed by the artist-author Marietta Minnigerode Andrews (1869-1931), who discusses a diverse array of personalities who she made acquaintance with in the nation's Capital, including many worthies, from presidents and their families, to the notable men and women who contributed to its civic, artistic, diplomatic, political, and philanthropic vibrancy in the early decades of the twentieth century. She provides some introductory background on the city's people from the time of Lincoln and in years of Reconstruction and then, through the rest of the book, makes account of the many faces passing through Washington during he administrations of Presidents Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge. Seller Inventory # 015420

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Studio Window: Sketches of the Pageant of...

Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Company

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good