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Women Literature Boyce NeithABAA

Proud Lady. With Autograph Letter to the Critic Rebecca Lowrie Signed

1923List327New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. First Edition. With an autograph letter signed with the envelope affixed to the front pastedown. With the bookplate of John and Rebecca Lowrie on front free endpaper. Lowrie reviewed the work for the New York Post and her review of the book affixed to the half-title. Very Good. Neith Boyce was an author and theater artist who worked across genres publishing a range of works and co-founding the Provincetown Players. Boyce and her husband Hutchins Hapgood were at the social center of a large circle of writers and artists including Gertrude Stein Georgia O'Keefe and Djuna Barnes. Their papers held at Yale provide rich insight into their artistic and literary era. Proud Lady was the second-to-last novel Boyce wrote and it was apparently her favorite. The novel is the story of Mary Carlin a woman who seeks spiritual perfection in others and who because of her pride cannot make herself leave her unfaithful husband. Rebecca Lowrie in her review written for the New York Post and included here states "all the vividness of the setting the touches which make the people so sure a part of their surroundings are secondary to the tragic figure of the proud lady and the victims of her pride." Boyce's letter to Lowrie effusively thanks her for her review of the book which from her tone appears to have been misunderstood by other critics. She writes "I have just seen your review of my novel Proud Lady. It is the most intelligent and best-written review that I have seen so far and I would like to convey to you my appreciation and the pleasure your attitude toward the book has given me." Overall a very nice association and a very good copy of an uncommon book. Some light wear and rubbing a few faint scuffs to cloth on the front board slightest bowing to spine but very good. Letter near fine with minimal wear. $450. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books

Auger Down Books · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Becker Edwin; Roman Prahl and Petr WittlichABAA

Prague 1900: Poetry and Ecstasy

1999182184Amsterdam / Zwolle: Van Gogh Museum / Waanders Utigevers 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG. Green cloth boards with black stamped lettering; green dust jacket color illustrated with white and black lettering on spine; 227 pp bw frontispiece illustrated throughout in bw and color. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name in the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 17 Dec. 1999-26 March 2000 and the Museum of Applied Art Frankfurt am Main 11 May-27 Aug. 2000--Colophon "This lavishly illustrated book introduces the world of fin-de-siÃƒÂ¨cle Prague. Around 1900 city's artists and artisans began to develop a particular ornamental language inspired by the contemporary revival of Czech culture and influenced by Art Nouveau Jugendstil and the Vienna Secession. To begin with lyricism and poetic symbolism dominated the visual arts. Jan Preisler one of the most important figures of the time created sensual paintings and sculptures based on themes connected to the writings of such Czech authors as Zeyer and Brezina. Other artists such as Kobliha and HlavÃƒÂ¡cek focused on turbulent forms dramatic expressions of torment and the macabre. In the applied arts exuberant floral and vegetal motifs were gradually transformed into geometric patterns.Prague 1900 charts the effects of the emergence of modernism and the search for Czech national identity in both the fine and the applied arts as well as in architecture music and literature. The book also includes a wealth of illustrations of interiors architectural and sculptural details and documentary photographs. Biographies of the most important artists are provided as well as a full chronology of artists and events."- publisher's description. Contents include: Prague 1900: From provincial capital to metropolis / Michael Huig -- Pictura & Poesis: The interplay of literature and art / Lubos Merhaut -- Music -- 'another world' / Marta Ottlova -- Between Salon and Secession / Roman Prahl -- Towards a new synthesis / Petr Wittlich -- Illustration as harmony / Iva Janakova -- An artistic synthesis on paper / Iva Janakova -- From ecstatic decoration to individual modernism: Applied art 1897-1910 / Sylva Petrova -- The discovery of a new beauty: The installation of exhibitions and interiors / Roman Prahl -- The violation of a dream: Post-Art Nouveau and Post-Symbolism / Alena Pomajzlova. Van Gogh Museum / Waanders Utigevers hardcover books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis35,00 $US≈ 29,61 €