Barde

1939 · rif. 140948628 — New York: Sheridan House 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition first printing. Association copy signed by Art Young on the half-title page and warmly inscribed to Sara Bard Field her name misspelled with date Nov. 22 1939. ALS to Field dated Feb. 18 1941 laid in. xii 467 1 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt printed endpapers. Near Fine with light soiling to textblock edges light toning to endpapers and thumbing and erased bookseller inscriptions to half-title page. In a Good dust jacket with light soiling insect damage along upper and lower edges and rear flap fold. The autobiography of the prominent socialist cartoonist Art Young inscribed to a woman he names in his book with the correct spelling of her first name as one of "the beautiful women I have met who were active in progressive or radical affairs." Sara Bard Field was a suffragist poet and Christian socialist married to the writer and civil liberties activist Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Young refers to Wood in his letter to Field: "I am impelled to write you because of your good poem in the Marxist magazine New Masses. The foreword too interested me because I think of you both -- often I can picture our Grand Old Man looking heroically toward the sunset. Tell him I'm with him such a spirit will never die. We of the old guard: artists and writers recall his fine record of doing and daring when we meet here in New York and discourse." Young signs with his name and a small sketch of a sunset over water. He wrote his affectionate note two days before Wood's 89th birthday a touching tribute from one famous pacifist to another not long before their country would be plunged into total war -- the subject of the poem that prompted Young's letter. Sheridan House unknown