MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE MOVIES.
- (Colorado Springs): The Press at Colorado College, n.d.
- 8vo.
- quarter faux leather, marbled paper covered boards, paper spine label
- unpaginated, printed accordian style.
Price: $125.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 110218
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 With Addendum thanking the Moore estate for permission to reprint the unpublished letters, loosely inserted.