Order Nr. 110218 MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE MOVIES. Ernest Kroll.
MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE MOVIES.
MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE MOVIES.
MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE MOVIES.

MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE MOVIES.

(Press at Colorado College).
  • (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 With Addendum thanking the Moore estate for permission to reprint the unpublished letters, loosely inserted.