Our Lady's Choir. A Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters. Edited by William Stanley Braithwaite. Foreword by Rev. Hugh Francis Blunt. Introduction by Ralph Adams Cram.
Boston: Printed by Fred Anthoensen of The Southworth Press for Bruce Humphries, 1931.
Price: $300.00
About the item
One of 50 on Kelmscott handmade paper, signed by CRAM, BLUNT & BRAITHWAITE. The book's dedicatee was the late wife of Boston Mayor James M. Curley, Mary Emelda Curley. xxx, 213pp. 8vo (5-1/4 x 8 x 1-14 inches). Decorated silk, gilt-lettered spine- label, slipcase (stained); uncut, light wear. Anthoensen, Types and Bookmaking: Bibliographical Catalogue, No. 127.
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Braithwaite, a black pioneer in literary criticism, was a reviewer for the Boston Transcript and editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse, as well as this and other anthololgies. He was instrumental in bringing to public notice such writers as Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Amy Lowell.
