(Browning, Elizabeth Barrett). Boas, Louise Schutz - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1930. 1930. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1930. 1930. Good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The covers are bumped. There are small tears to the cloth at the top corner & bottom inner corner of the front cover & a longer tear to the bottom edge. There are also 2 whitish stains to the cover. The spine & its gilt titling are faded with the head & tail chipped. vii, [i] & 216 pages. The book is lightly cracked at the last page of the text, the title page is foxed & there is occasional light foxing to a few other pages. Illustrated with 8 black-and-white plates, including a portrait frontispiece. Good.

First edition.

From the library of Hettie Gray Baker with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Another of her bookplates of a different design has been signed by Louise Schutz Boas along the bottom edge and is mounted on the front pastedown, partiallly covering the original bookplate. Tipped in on the front endpaper is a one-page TLS to Hettie Gray Baker signed in full by Boas. Boas thanks Gray for her letter of appreciation and her bookplate and describes her own family bookplate of which she is sending Gray a copy.

Hettie Gray Baker (1881-1957), was a pioneer woman in the film industry. As a film editor and writer she contributed to numerous films, including writing scenario and story scripts for several silent films based on Jack London classics. Among these were "Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Alaska" (1914), "The Valley of the Moon" (1914), and "The Chechako" (1914). She edited legendary Western film director John Ford's early film "The Iron Horse" (1924). She later became known for her knowledge of Siamese cats and wrote several cat books, including "Cat Tales" published by Farrar Strauss and Young. Good .

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