Title: This Fine-Pretty World: A Comedy of the Kentucky Mountains.
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. 1924. - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in gray boards backed with a red cloth spine with title labels on the front cover and the spine. The book is laid into its original buff dust wrapper, titled & decorated in red & black. The edges of the dust jacket are darkened & chipped with tears at the folds of the spine and flaps. xxiii, [iii] & 197 pages. There is some offsetting to the endpapers & pastedowns with Brentano's discreet book label mounted at the bottom of the rear pastedown. There is some minor faint foxing to the book's edges. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First edition.
From the library of Woodstock artist Zulma Steele signed by her on the front endpaper.
One of the pioneering women of the Arts and Crafts Movement and Modernism in New York, Zulma Steele [1881-1979] studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Museum School, and the Pratt Institute where she met the influential teacher Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow encouraged her and her colleague Edna Walker to join the Byrdcliffe colony in Woodstock, New York where the two women designed floral decorations for furniture. Steele took painting classes at Byrdcliffe with Birge Harrison, and later at the Art Students' League summer school in Woodstock. She was a member of the National Arts Club where she exhibited with such Modernist artists as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Abraham Walkowitz. In the early 1920s she studied in Paris with Cubist Andre Lhote. She married Nielson Parker in 1926, and settled with him near Woodstock where they built a home. She traveled extensively after he died but a few years later in 1928, visiting Haiti, the Bahamas & Europe, though always returning home where from 1926 until 1967 she worked in the studios of the large stone house they had built near Woodstock. She passed away in New Jersey at the age of 98 and is now considered one of the most revered of the Woodstock designers. Good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; PLAYS; THEATRE; THIS FINE-PRETTY WORLD; A COMEDY OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS; PERCY MACKAYE; PLAY; PLAYWRIGHT; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ZELMA STEELE; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; ASSOCIATION; WOODSTOCK ARTIST
- Book number: 98343
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