Spider Kin

[Puppet Theatre] [Gay Fiction] Brown, Forman

Published by Robert Packard and Company, Chicago, 1929

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Early collection of illustrated poetry from the Michigan-born puppeteer and gay novelist, Forman Brown. Brown established the Turnabout Theater with his group, Forman's Yale Puppeteers in Los Angeles in 1941. The venue quickly became very popular, garnering celebrity attention from the likes of Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Aimee Semple McPherson, and others. In 1933, Forman wrote what is considered the first American novel to present the gay experience in a healthy manner, a semi-autobiographical work calledBetter Angel.Spider Kincollects his early poetry, some of which was published inThe Dial,The Reviewer,and other periodicals. Truly a beautiful collection with cuts by Marian Brand, with copies in this condition being quite scarce. . 8vo, 94pp. Woodcut illustrations by Marian Brand. Publisher's green cloth backed spider web textured boards stamped in gilt in illustrated jacket. Shelf wear along bottom edges of boards else a near fine copy in like jacket with some light toning and corner wear.

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Spider Kin

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Robert Packard and Company, Chicago

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1929

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