Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics

New York: Viking Press, (1966).

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small stains on the front panel. Inscribed by Moore to Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes and her father the journalist and author Gilbert Seldes: "Dear Marian; and for accomplished Gilbert Seldes (one of my mentors). I do not peruse messages - just file them but I felt robbed of a word or two from you dear Marian when told you had been at Ruth Gordon's and Garson Kanin's as it were, joint program on November 12th. I live now, in 7B 35 West 9th Street. (phone under flap) Marianne (Moore) November 22, 1966." Paperclipped to the front flap is an index card in Moore's hand with her phone number. After Ruth Gordon's death, Seldes married her widower, Garson Kanin.

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Item #419838 Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics. Marianne MOORE.
Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics
Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics

Marianne Moore
birth name: Marianne Craig Moore
born: 11/15/1887
died: 2/5/1972
nationality: USA

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American poet whose work distilled moral and intellectual insights from the close and accurate observation of objective detail. Extremely desciplined in her craft, Moore won the admiration of fellow poets throughout her long career. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore