Inscribed copy by Lilian Bell with letters
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About This Item
Bell, Lilian. A LITTLE SISTER TO THE WILDERNESS. Chicago, Stone & Kimball, 1895. 267 pp. 12mo., olive gilt-stamped cloth. First Edition, first issue, with no colophon on recto of leaf following close of text. The cover design was the first of two done for Stone & Kimball by Bruce Rogers. (Kramer, 42.) Provenance: copy of prominent bibliophile, Wallace Hugh Cathcart (1856-1942).
A most peculiar copy with a full page presentation by Lilian Bell, the American woman novelist and travel writer. Additionally two letters of Bell to Cathcart are preserved in neat stamped envelops at the back. It appears, according to the correspondence, that this book was sent in error ("you sent the wrong man!") to Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr, the minister and white supremist best known as the storyteller behind the 1915 D. W. Griffith Film The Birth of a Nation. The intended recipient was Dr. Thomas Dixon of New York as Bell evidently intended. The racist Rev. Dixon pasted his photograph to the inside cover and has a handwritten review of the work on p. 267.
A most peculiar copy with a full page presentation by Lilian Bell, the American woman novelist and travel writer. Additionally two letters of Bell to Cathcart are preserved in neat stamped envelops at the back. It appears, according to the correspondence, that this book was sent in error ("you sent the wrong man!") to Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr, the minister and white supremist best known as the storyteller behind the 1915 D. W. Griffith Film The Birth of a Nation. The intended recipient was Dr. Thomas Dixon of New York as Bell evidently intended. The racist Rev. Dixon pasted his photograph to the inside cover and has a handwritten review of the work on p. 267.
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- Adam Weinberger Books (US)
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- Title
- Inscribed copy by Lilian Bell with letters
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1895
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- bruce rogers, women writers, inscribed
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- First Edition
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