Fuller Meta (4 results)

Hardcover. 200p., 9x11.75 inches, foreword, introduction, essays, chronologies, selected bibliography, Aaron Douglas bibliography, index, profusely illustrated with both color plates of paintings and b&w photographs of vintage Harlem and the artists, very good first edition in cloth boards with vignette design, illustrated endpapers and bright, unclipped dj.

NY: Ogilvie, (1881). Original green printed wrappers, stapled. 168 pages. Spine partly chipped away, covers chipped at edges, a couple of pages starting out of first gathering, upper cover detached, about very good. A fragile book printed on cheap paper. The copyright statement is by Street & Smith. Possibly the first edition, though Ogilvie seems to have put the book out in a number of formats in 1881. Meta Victor, who also wrote as Seeley Regester, was a prolific author of Dime Novels and other works.

Publisher's wraps. Contains essays by both Sinclairs who were in the midst of a widely publicized divorce :"Marriage and Divorce" by Upton Sinclair and "A Plea for Freer Divorce" Meta Fuller Sinclair, one of very few works published under her own name. weight: 0.9 lb. Good, spine and edges tattered, back cover detached. Numerous illustrations. 25x17.5x1 cm. 8. 1135-1282, 9-28 pages.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Two gelatin silver portraits of Meta Fuller, Upton Sinclair's first wife. Each is approximately 4" x 4½", mounted on thin card stock. Penciled stock or inventory numbers on each. Images are about fine, the edges of the card mount are a little worn. Fuller was married to Sinclair from 1900 to 1911 at which time she left him for the vagabond poet Harry Kemp. Each image is similar, of Fuller in a casual white dress, seated on a porch in front of verdant greenery, presumably in Arden, Delaware, where they lived for much of their marriage. The images are reminiscent of posed press photographs but it is possible that they are vernacular.