Author: Rosenberger, Coleman Francis (1915-1986)
Title: Manet in Merkers. First Edition of the Published Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Letterpress on pink paper. 30.5 x 20.3cm. As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Francis Coleman Rosenberger, 72, retired chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee, died Oct. 19. 1986 at Fairfax Hospital after a stroke. Mr. Rosenberger also was a poet and an author and reviewed books for The Washington Post, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The New York Times and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Published collections of his poems include "Pattern and Variation," "One Season Here," and "XII Poems." Coleman Rosenberger was born March 22, 1915, in Manassas, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia and received an LL.B. degree from George Washington University in 1942. Rosenberger was an attorney, writer, and editor. Rosenberger published several volumes of his own poetry: The Virginia Poems (Gotham Book Mark, 1943), XII Poems (Gotham Book Mart, 1946), One Season Here (University Press of Virginia, 1946), An Alphabet (University Press of Virginia, 1978), and The Visit (Tabula Rasa Press, 1984). A selection of the books he edited includes: Virginia Reader: a Treasury of Writings from the First Voyage to the Present (Dutton, 1948; reprinted Octagon, 1972), American Sampler: a Selection of Poetry (Prairie Press, 1951), Jefferson Reader: a Treasury of Writings about Thomas Jefferson (Dutton, 1953), Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (8 vols. University Press of Virginia, 1961-1980), Washington and the Poet (an anthology, University Press of Virginia, 1977). Rosenberger also contributed poetry to 5 anthologies during the 1940s and contributed poetry to approximately 40 periodicals. He was a book reviewer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch (1938-1940), Washington Post (1940-1945), New York Herald Tribune Book Review (195-1962), and Washington Star (1967-1971). He was also interested in genealogy and wrote Some Notes on the Rosenberger Family in Pennsylvania & Virginia, 1729-1950 (William Byrd Press, 1950), and edited The Robinson-Rosenberger Journey to the Gold Fields of California, 1849-1850: the Diary of Zirkle D. Robinson (Prairie Press, 1966). Rosenberger received a National Poetry Center Award at the New York World's Fair in 1939. Rosenberger was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1939, bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949, and was a member of the legal and legislative staff of the U.S. Senate, 1942-1978. He received a certificate of commendation for scholarly editing from the American Association for State and Local History in 1971 for his work on the Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. .
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Title: Manet in Merkers. First Edition of the Published Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Letterpress on pink paper. 30.5 x 20.3cm. As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Francis Coleman Rosenberger, 72, retired chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee, died Oct. 19. 1986 at Fairfax Hospital after a stroke. Mr. Rosenberger also was a poet and an author and reviewed books for The Washington Post, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The New York Times and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Published collections of his poems include "Pattern and Variation," "One Season Here," and "XII Poems." Coleman Rosenberger was born March 22, 1915, in Manassas, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia and received an LL.B. degree from George Washington University in 1942. Rosenberger was an attorney, writer, and editor. Rosenberger published several volumes of his own poetry: The Virginia Poems (Gotham Book Mark, 1943), XII Poems (Gotham Book Mart, 1946), One Season Here (University Press of Virginia, 1946), An Alphabet (University Press of Virginia, 1978), and The Visit (Tabula Rasa Press, 1984). A selection of the books he edited includes: Virginia Reader: a Treasury of Writings from the First Voyage to the Present (Dutton, 1948; reprinted Octagon, 1972), American Sampler: a Selection of Poetry (Prairie Press, 1951), Jefferson Reader: a Treasury of Writings about Thomas Jefferson (Dutton, 1953), Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (8 vols. University Press of Virginia, 1961-1980), Washington and the Poet (an anthology, University Press of Virginia, 1977). Rosenberger also contributed poetry to 5 anthologies during the 1940s and contributed poetry to approximately 40 periodicals. He was a book reviewer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch (1938-1940), Washington Post (1940-1945), New York Herald Tribune Book Review (195-1962), and Washington Star (1967-1971). He was also interested in genealogy and wrote Some Notes on the Rosenberger Family in Pennsylvania & Virginia, 1729-1950 (William Byrd Press, 1950), and edited The Robinson-Rosenberger Journey to the Gold Fields of California, 1849-1850: the Diary of Zirkle D. Robinson (Prairie Press, 1966). Rosenberger received a National Poetry Center Award at the New York World's Fair in 1939. Rosenberger was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1939, bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949, and was a member of the legal and legislative staff of the U.S. Senate, 1942-1978. He received a certificate of commendation for scholarly editing from the American Association for State and Local History in 1971 for his work on the Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. .
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- Book number: 16-5861
- Book number: 16-5861
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