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1939 Review Copy "From Ragtime to Swingtime" and More
Item Details
Title and Author/Editor | The Story of the House of Witmark: From Ragtime to Swingtime (Isidore Witmark and Isaac Goldberg, 1939), A House is Not a Home (Polly Adler, 1953), My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions: Songs and Ballads of Convivality (Collected by Frank Shay, 1927), Walden or Life in the Woods (Henry D. Thoreau, 1946), Dress Gray (Lucian K. Truscott IV, 1979), Thoreau (Henry Seidel Canby, 1939), Henry Thoreau: The Cosmic Yankee (J. Brooks Atkinson, 1927), The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Genre | Anthologies, Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs, Poetry |
Illustrator | Various |
Type of Illustration | Halftone, Photographs |
Binding | Cloth on board, Buckram, Softcover |
Edition Statement | First Edition, Later Editions, First Edition (Review Copy), First Edition (Printer’s Proof) |
Signed | Yes |
Signed by | A House is Not a Home is inscribed, signed and dated to the front endpaper by the author Polly Adler. |
Number of Books | 8 |
Additional Information | Included are two pastedown albumen prints of Harriet Beecher Stowe with a facsimile signature to one and her views on women’s suffrage to the verso. The other albumen print bears handwritten date and photographer initials to verso, taken by Sara Thompson Kinney for an article titled “Harriet Beecher Stowe” published in 1886, with other copies of this photograph located in the archives of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center of Hartford, Connecticut. A newspaper clipping features a review of the book From Ragtime to Swingtime in the Cincinnati Enquirer dated May 27, 1939. |
Condition
- wear to covers with tears, bumped corners, rubbed edges, soiling; cracked hinges; fading, foxing; chipping to pages; writing to endpapers.
Dimensions
10.25" W x 10.0" H x 7.25" D
- measures group.
Item #
ITMG207978