Jun 01, 2023 - Sale 2639

Sale 2639 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Moore, Marianne Craig (1887-1972)
Small Archive of Correspondence and Books, some Signed.

Including: five typed notes signed, 1962-1964, all addressed to literary editor Kirby Congdon, many in thanks for sending books, some related to her work, as: "I seem indifferent? I am obliterated and friends in kindness 'neglect me' hoping to give me time to write. This explanation, since I infer that you have misapprehended my silence."; A Face: A Poem by Marianne Craig Moore, Cummington, MA: Cummington Press for the New Colophon, 1949, signed by Moore on title page, in limp wrappers; Letters from and to the Ford Motor Company, by Moore and David Wallace, New York: Printed by the Spiral Press for Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, one of 550 copies, bound in publisher's binding and matching slipcase; Idiosyncrasy & Technique, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958, in limp blue-striped paper wrappers; Poetry Magazine, vol. 83, no. 1, October 1953, featuring Three Fables from La Fontaine by Moore; [and] The Accented Syllable, New York: Printed in Cambridge, MA by Will Ferguson for the Albondocani Press, 1969, copy 66 of 300 printed, bound in publisher's limp wrappers; all books small format.