June's Verses
19242039747Rochester: Privately Published 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Edges rubbed & toned. Several items laid in including: an article dated 1932 about a garden party given by the author at her home which also mentions her patronage of the Rochester School for the Deaf; a bookmark advertising a Buffalo NY shoe company; a Christmas card showing children dressed as a soldier a mother and a Red Cross nurse dated 1942; a handwritten verse author unknown; a poem by the author clipped from a newspaper article entitled 'With Rochester Poets'; a photograph of the author clipped from a newspaper whose caption mentions her as hostess and patroness for the annual concert of the Community Choir of Rochester at the Masonic Auditorium. 1924 Hard Cover. Photographic frontispiece of June from photo taken in 1915. Foreword by Cornelius Woelfkin. A collection of several dozen poems by a Rochester New York poet and patroness of the arts. From the author's obituary which appeared in The New York Times August 22 1989: 'Linda Lyon Van Voorhis. known as June in her family published her first book of poems at 22 under the title 'June's Verses.' She followed this with 'More June's Verses' in 1935 and in 1973 'June in September.' Her verses ranging from whimsical family topics to the topically serious also appeared in popular anthologies. Mrs. Van Voorhis was born in Rochester and for much of her life worked for environmental cultural and social causes. She was the widow of John Van Voorhis an associate judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1953 until his retirement in 1967. Rochester: Privately Published hardcover books
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