The Lost Lyrist

by Frost, Elizabeth Hollister

$250 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

Signed

1928. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 8vo, (2), xvi, 96 pp. Signed proof of an original etching and 5 photogravure plates by Tuttle. Original quarter cream cloth and plain paper boards, priced ticket of Stanley Rose's bookshop on rear pastedown (see below). A fine, unopened copy in the worn but original slipcase with printed paper label, lacking its back panel. § Copy number 2 of 100 copies signed by the author and with an additional proof of an original etching signed by the illustrator. The first book by the poet Elizabeth Frost, dedicated to her husband who had died suddenly two years earlier. Many of the poems address grief, amid the beauties of the natural world. The illustrator Henry Emerson Tuttle (1890-1946) was Frost's brother-in-law and is widely considered one of America's greatest twentieth-century etchers of birds. The signed proof etching is of terns in flight. On the rear pastedown is the small ticket of the colorful Hollywood bookseller Stanley Rose, giving his address as 1625 No. Vine, Hollywood, an address he occupied for only a few years at the beginning of the 1930s. Rose's shop was a meeting place (and unlicensed bar) for numerous screenwriters and novelists including William Saroyan, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, and John Fante. In 1935 festivities were relocated to Rose's final and most famous address: 6661 1/2 Hollywood Boulevard.

• Year: 1928
• Binding: unknown

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