New York: Albert and Charles Boni, (1926).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. Second printing. Spine lettering worn, corners worn, a good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed ("Lewy") written from the respected translator and raconteur Lewis Galantie?re to Marian Seldes, a Tony Award-winning actress and the daughter of expatriate writer Gilbert Seldes. The letter, written in 1975, warmly recalls Gilbert Seldes and gives a brief reminiscence by Galantie?re of his meeting Frances Newman in Paris in the 1920s: "Frances Newman: Her name takes me back to 1921 when she appeared in Paris with a note of introduction from one James Branch Cabell. I'm pretty sure she was a fellow Virginian: a maiden look[ed] 10 or 15 years older than me who never - while she was in Paris - deigned to see me again. She had a quick wit, I'm sure; and mine to[ok] a bit of time to understand what she would want to know of Paris." Later in the letter: "Newman (again) I never read her and I couldn't abide her. She was not edible. Elle etait (a mon gout) tout simplement une vieille fille. [translates as "She was (to my taste) simply an old maid."]. If I went on, I would say things I have no grounds for saying, no right to say. I think she was a bit jealous of men. Mind, that was more than 50 years ago!"
Letter is folded as mailed else fine in origjnal envelope. Interesting, if jaundiced view of Newman.
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