Margaret Widdemer Hand On Her Shoulder First and 12 similar items

HAND ON HER SHOULDER By Margaret Widdemer New York: Farrar Rinehart, Inc., (1938). First edition, first printing. Rubber stamped lending library address to the endpapers, no other library markings, mild soiling to the oatmeal cloth covers, else a very good, tight copy; lacking the dust jacket. A scarce first edition copy of this novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet. "Routine modern young love, patterning itself on a traditional formula when Kathy falls in love with and marries Lucian, disdained by her genealogy-conscious aunt. Upper New York state and backwoods natives play their part, and family quarrels serve as barriers in the thorny path of the lovers."--Kirkus. "Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) was an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise (1918). She shared the prize with Carl Sandburg, who won for his collection Corn Huskers (1916). Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She came to public attention with her poem The Factories (1917), which treated the subject of child labor. In 1919 she married Robert Haven Schauffler (1879-1964), a widower five years her senior. Schauffler was an author and cellist who published widely on poetry, travel, culture, and music. Widdemer's memoir Golden Friends I Had (1964) recounts her friendships with eminent authors such as Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, and Edna St. Vincent Millay."--goodreads. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION FICTION BOOKS THANKS! On Dec-11-03 at 18:03:08 PST, seller added the following information: