MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE ...
by Kroll, Ernest (editor)
Limited to 100 numbered copies. Design based on the Japanese flutter-book. Six letters from Marianne Moore to Ralph Block concerning an article in The Dial (January 1927), concerning a forthcoming Dial article discounting motion pictures as an art form to which Moore sought a reply. Moore (1887-1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer who served as editor of The Dial, a literary and cultural journal, from 1925 to 1929. Block (1889-1974) was an American film producer and screenwriter, president of the Screen Actors Guild, 1934-5. Foreword by the editor. Text of the letters and the article included. Notes and colophon. With Addendum loosely inserted thanking the Moore estate for permission to reprint the unpublished letters.

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