Animaux

1966 · 3011 — <p>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.</p> Simon & Schuster hardcover