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Author George Davis. 25. Chicagoan. after a couple of years in Detroit's City College worked in a Chicago steel plant, in Marshall Field's bookshop, then joined the U. S. expatriate colony in France. Friend of Authors Jean Cocteau, Norman...
James A. DeLacey, proprietor of Dunster House Bookshop, 20 South Street, announces the publication of a bibliography of the writings of Edwin Arlington Robinson, ex '95, prepared by Robert Johns Bulkley '32, and Lucius Beebe '27. The bibliography, which contains mention of all Robinson first editions and collector's items to date, includes more than fifty books and also establishes for the first time the status of the pirated edition of the missing canto of "Lancelot", published here under the title "Three Poems" in 1928. This is probably the rarest of all Robinson items, exceeding in scarcity even the famous...
...critic, his mother Constance a translator of the great Russians, so David set out to be an economic botanist, discovered a new kind of mushroom. A conscientious observer, he served during the War on the Friends' War Victims Relief Expedition. Then he gave up botany, started a bookshop with Francis Birrell. When Francis Meynell launched the None such Press, Garnett became a partner, later sold out his share in the bookshop to have more time to write. His wife Rachel has illustrated several of his books (including The Grasshoppers Come) with woodcuts. Other books: Lady Into...
...three large sheets of parchment Dr. Albert Einstein had written a summary of his relativity theory to date. An anonymous donor bought it, valued at $25,000, presented it to Yale University. The presentation was formal, with Dr. Einstein present, at the Manhattan bookshop run by Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, daughter of the late Sportsman-tycoon Payne Whitney, and Mrs. Josephine Dodge Kimball, daughter of Marshall J. Dodge. Dr. Einstein forthwith sailed on the Deutschland for Germany...
During this autobiographical walk around Manhattan one ex-friend after another met Lawrence and offered him friendly help. To cap all, the girl showed him a flourishing bookshop, offered him the job of running it. Then they were mysteriously separated and Lawrence woke up in his room. When he called her apartment he found she had died the day before; but everything else had really happened...