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Kent, OH: Kent State University, 1956. Hardcover. 60p., foreword, device on title page, personal inscription signed by the author of front free endpaper, very good first edition limited to 1000 copies in decorative boards and unclipped dj. The first piece is a reworking of Price's mother's stories about Kent, Ohio in the nineteenth century. The second is an address given to faculty and students at Kent State in 1955. Lucien Price aka Seymour Deming was a Kent, Ohio writer who graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1907. While there he lived an undisguised if not out gay life and several of his early books relate the love affair he had there with a fellow Harvard student. Several chapters of Douglass Shand-Tucci's book "The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture" are devoted to Price. He was also a socialist, inspired by the Lawrence textile strike of 1912 which he wrote an editorial in support of.
Hellas and Israel: a portrait of Sir Richard Livingstone [inscribed & signed] by Price, Lucien [aka Seymour Deming] - 1962
by Price, Lucien [aka Seymour Deming]
Hellas and Israel: a portrait of Sir Richard Livingstone [inscribed & signed]
by Price, Lucien [aka Seymour Deming]
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[no place]: Self-published by the author, 1962. Seven 7x25 inch sheets printed one side only and folded down to 7x9 inches, toning and several fold creases, personal inscription signed Lucien and dated Christmas 1963 with a handwritten addendum to the printed date of original reading. Livingstone was an Oxford educated Classicist. The addendum states [printed] *This paper was read at the December, 1962, meeting [handwritten] Massachusetts Historical Society.
Only one holding located in OCLC as of 6/2021.
Lucien Price aka Seymour Deming was a Kent, Ohio writer who graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1907. While there he lived an undisguised if not out gay life and several of his early books relate the love affair he had there with a fellow Harvard student. Several chapters of Douglass Shand-Tucci's book "The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture" are devoted to Price. He was also a socialist, inspired by the Lawrence textile strike of 1912.
Only one holding located in OCLC as of 6/2021.
Lucien Price aka Seymour Deming was a Kent, Ohio writer who graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1907. While there he lived an undisguised if not out gay life and several of his early books relate the love affair he had there with a fellow Harvard student. Several chapters of Douglass Shand-Tucci's book "The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture" are devoted to Price. He was also a socialist, inspired by the Lawrence textile strike of 1912.
- Bookseller Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Book Condition Used
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- Publisher Self-published by the author
- Place of Publication [no place]
- Date Published 1962