Memoir for Mrs. Sullavan (signed postcard & letter)
by Untermeyer, Bryna Ivens w/illus. by Barry Geller
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster. 1966 1st ed. 128pp. illus. beige pictorial cloth sm 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = few edge nicks & small tears; else nrVG] A personal, typed postcard, signed by the author Bryna Ivens Untermeyer (d. 1985), is tipped to ffep describing Mrs. Untermeyer’s trip to Greece with her husband Louis Untermeyer. Tipped to rfep is a typed letter, signed by the author, describing the Untermeyers' trip from their Connecticut home to Boston for Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) to receive the New England Poetry Society’s Golden Rose for 1966 (for service to poetry). The book is a charming memoir of the Untermeyers' cat, Mrs. Sullavan (with equally charming pencil sketches by Barry Geller). The poet Phyllis McGinley (1905-78) said: "Unlike most books perpetrated by cat lovers, [this book] is neither arch nor affected; rather, affecting. I read it with much pleasure." Included as a bonus with this purchase is a copy of Louis Untermeyer's contemporaneous work "Labyrinth of Love," illustrated by Paul Davis (Simon & Schuster, 1965 1st ed.) 59pp. hardback 16mo in dust jacket. Untermeyer, a Marxist, was blacklisted in the 1950s by the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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- Bookseller
- Auldfarran Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3011
- Title
- Memoir for Mrs. Sullavan (signed postcard & letter)
- Author
- Untermeyer, Bryna Ivens w/illus. by Barry Geller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1966 1st ed
- Publisher
- New York: Simon & Schuster
- Keywords
- MEMOIR ANIMALS CATS PETS POETRY SIGNED COLLECTIBLE COPY LOUIS UNTERMEYER LABYRINTHE OF LOVE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoir;
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