Word: colophon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small, tawny-haired, vivacious daughter of Artist Frank Murray, onetime dramatic editor of the New York Herald. She paints landscapes and murals, collects pictures, writes books about them. For the past two years a handsome series of yellow-bound quartos on Modern Art have been appearing over the colophon of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Maud Dale wrote two of these books, one on Picasso, one on Modigliani. Booksellers know that not Alfred Knopf but Maud Dale is paying the publication cost of the whole series...