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Conversation at Midnight 1937 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Conversation at Midnight, 1937, poetry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, pub 1937, Harper & Brothers, NY, third edition; copyright 1937, hard cover has discolored spine, some soil and stain but good sturdy condition (worn at spine), 126 pgs including table of first lines; binding separated at inside back; all pages clean, nomarks.
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The Princess Marries the Page, a drama written while Millay was at Vassar and in which she played the leading role in 1917, was published in 1932, as was a so-called 'closet' play Conversation at Midnight in 1937. All this artistic activity won Millay much acclaim, and she was named to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1929, awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by Poetry magazine in 1931
Circa: 1937
Condition: used
Size: 8 by 5 1/2 approx.
Type: poetry
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pages: 126
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John V.A. Weaver Finders, pub 1923
Rare book, Finders by John V.A. Weaver, poetry, first edition 1923, pub Alfred A. Knopf NY; 83 pgs, paper graphics over board cover, very rare, spine brittle and broken off at back edge, binding intact and loose.
John Van Alstyn Weaver was born at Charlotte, North Carolina, July 17, 1893. He was the son of John Van Alstyn Weaver, for whom he was named, and Anne Randolph Tate Weaver. He graduated from Hamiltaon College at Clinton, New York in 1914 and the following year studied at Harvard University.
He went to Chicago and in 1916, became assistant book editor of The Chicago Daily News. He was a lieutenant int he army during the first World War and returned to The News in 1919. A year later he became literary editor of the The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and held this post for four years, resigning to devote all his time to writing. In 1928 he went to the West Coast to write for Paramount. He had freelanced there since 1931.
John V.A. Weaver married Peggy Wood, the musical comedy star, in 1924. They had one son David who was born in 1927. He died on June 15, 1938 in Colorado from tuberculosis.
A poet who wrote his verse in the idiom of the street, he came out of the gaudy Chicago of Ben Hecht to be a book reviewer just as the literary renaissance of the Twenties was dawning over New York. He published five volumes of verse, two novels and a play in this period before going to Hollywood to write dialogue for the movies. Shipping $5.00 includes insurance.
Circa: 1923
Condition: used
Size: 7 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches
Type: hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Author: Charles V.A. Weaver
Edition: 1
Pages: 80+
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