Sale 2473 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, April 12, 2018

237 c   (WOMEN.) Harper, Ida Husted. Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. 24 plates. xxiii, [1], 513 pages. Volumes I (of 3) only. 8vo, publisher’s buckram with paper spine label, minor wear; minor foxing to front endpapers; inscribed by Anthony on front free endpaper. Indianapolis, 1899 [500/750] Inscribed “Dr. Fernand Deschamps of Belgium, With the hope that principle not prejudice will govern all of his reports on the great question of woman’s enfranchisement. Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester N.Y., Sept. 26, 1901.” 238 c   (WOMEN.) Tilton, Theodore. Victoria C. Woodhull: A Biographical Sketch. 35, [1] pages. 12mo, original printed wrappers; some wear and dampstaining, vertical fold. New York: The Golden Age, 1871 [1,200/1,800] A campaign biography of the first female candidate for president. Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was a renaissance woman. Raised in poverty, she became a stockbroker, spiritualist lecturer, newspaper editor, and radical suffrage advocate before announcing her intention to run for president in 1870 at the age of 32. This biography was published the following year, and in 1872 she helped found the Equal Rights Party to support her candidacy. The party nominated Frederick Douglass as her running mate, although he never formally accepted the nomination or campaigned. Woodhull was arrested days before the 1872 election on obscenity charges, because of free-love arguments made in her newspaper. As she was not yet 35, she was not technically eligible for the presidency. 239 c   (WOMEN.) Correspondence of Marjorie Crocker Fairbanks. Hundreds of letters (0.5 linear feet), most in their original folders; generally minor wear. Vp, 1926-63 [600/900] Marjorie Crocker Fairbanks (1895-1972) was a figure in art, music, culinary and literary circles from the 1920s through 1950s in both Paris and her native Massachusetts. She was a close friend of the author Tom Wolfe and served as a manager for folk singer Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter. This collection of her correspondence covers a wide variety of cultural figures. The sculptor Thelma Wood (1901-1970), best known as a partner of Djuna Barnes, is represented by 37 letters from 1936 to 1947, plus a file of 12 photographs of her drawings. Among Fairbanks’s other correspondents were American poet Robert Hillyer (one letter, 1940, and related clippings) * French wine writer André Simon (7 letters and related manuscripts, 1948-49) * film director Louis b. Mayer (one letter, 1929) * and American composer Katherine Ruth Heyman (letter, signed photograph, and concert programs, 1931-34). Several of her correspondents were noteworthy African-Americans; the collection includes 7 letters and related clippings from author and activist Eslanda Goode Robeson (1946-47) * A pair of duplicate carbon copies of an apparently unpublished short story by African-American poet Owen Dodson * 3 letters and related clippings from Ebony Magazine’s food editor Freda DeKnight, 1949-55 * A letter on the death of jazz drummer Yank Porter and two snapshots of him, 1944 * A letter on the final illness of Lead Belly, and another planning his memorial concert, 1949.