Buy this book on-line Field, Sara Bard : Darkling PlainRandom House, New York, 1936
One of 1500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Signed and inscribed by author in black ink on front free endpaper. Author's autograph letter signed on a calling card laid in. Original publisher's brown cloth binding in a beige paper dust jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and book spine. Beautiful speckles of silver foil on both sides of dust jacket. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 6 1/4" x 9." Ninety-two pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for fading or sunning along spine and parts of the covers (more pronounced along spine). Binding is tight. Dust jacket is clean and intact overall but has darkening along spine and parts of front and back panels; chipping at head and tail of spine, top edge, and corners; and a closed tear on back flap measuring about its entire width at 4." Dust jacket not price-clipped. A Near Fine book in a Good dust jacket. Back colophon: "Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1936." The second collection of poems by Sara Bard Field (1882-1974), an American poet, suffragist, Georgist, and Christian socialist. She was married to Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944), an American author, artist, Georgist, lawyer, and civil liberties advocate. Field and Wood lived in an estate called "The Cats" or "The Cats Estate" in Los Gatos, which saw many famous guests including Charlie Chaplin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Wood was also friends with notable figures such as Ansel Adams, Chief Joseph, Margaret Sanger, and John Steinbeck. The following is Wood's inscription on the front free endpaper: "To Alberta Wright Gerould, With all sincere wishes for her happiness, and that of her young husband as they walk together on this 'darkling plain,' from Sara Bard Field. 'The Cats,' Los Gatos, Calif., Dec, 1942." Calling card has the following printed text on white paper: "Colonel and Mrs. Charles Erskine Scott Wood." Wood has written the following letter on this calling card, front and back, in black ink: "Dear Alberta, We send you and your husband our loving congratulations and our hope that your union will be as happy as ours--and as growthful. Your father thought you'd best like some of our books as a wedding gift. Alas! Dear Col. Wood is almost blind and hence his uncertain autograph written with pain, but in sincere regard. Had he had good sight, he would have written more. Bless you, dear Alberta! Sara Bard Field.". Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Field, Sara Bard : Darkling Plain. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, incunabula, livres illustrées, collectables and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |