Sonnets From a Lock Box And Other Poems
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1929
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since May 15, 1998
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 150.00
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126p. Original cloth. 20 cm. Fading on backstrip and cover edges. Title label on backstrip chipped around edges. This copy does not have the publisher's jacket but does have an untitled jacket handmaded by Vilas doe some of her books. A posed outdoor photo of Branch is mounted on the front pastedown. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Branch to "Dear Faith ."). Two letters in blue ink are pasted in to "Mrs. Vilas from Christina Isobel MacColl, founder of a Settment House in New York City which Branch had supported financialy and with service on its the Board of Managers. "Sonnet from a Lock Box" appears to be regarded Branch's best work. Vilas has turned this copy into a celebration of Branch and their poetic connections -- marking up a lelngthy poem in red for a dramatic reading, adding a couple of her poems celebrating Branch, inserting a postcard depicting the Hempstead House Garret in New London (a garret where Vilas notes remembering Branch showing her the axe with which Anna's ancestor had hewed the beams for this 17th century house).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Sonnets From a Lock Box And Other Poems
- Author
- Branch, Anna Hempstead
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
- Publication year
- 1929
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Paperback
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Seller catalogs
- Connecticut, Poetry, Women's Studies
McBlain Books, ABAA
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