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Más imágenesEditorial: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1976
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound in finely woven dark brown cloth and stamped brightly in gold on the spine. Very clean and tight throughout. Virtually unread. With a signed/presentation inscription by Yourcenar on the half-title page: "To Harry de Montmollin with the compliments of the author, Marg…uerite Yourcenar,/ Solve et Coagula/ July 1976." Additionally signed by the translator in blue ink on the title page: "With the friendly greetings of Grace Frick." A delightful confluence of inscriptions. In a handsome near-fine pictorial dust jacket with the lightest touch of rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends. With the price of $10.00 at the top of the inside front flap. Scarce inscribed. Marguerite Yourcenar, born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour (1903 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Acadà mie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour in Brussels, Belgium, to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour, of French bourgeois descent, originating from French Flanders, a very wealthy landowner,[4] and a Belgian mother, Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, of Belgian nobility, who died ten days after her birth. She grew up in the home of her paternal grandmother. She adopted the surname Yourcenar an almost anagram of Crayencour, having one fewer c as a pen name; in 1947 she also took it as her legal surname.[5]Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. She translated Virginia Woolf's The Waves over a 10-month period in 1937. In 1939, her partner at the time,[6] the literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited Yourcenar to the United States to escape the outbreak of World War II in Europe. She lectured in comparative literature in New York City and Sarah Lawrence College.[7]Yourcenar was bisexual;[citation needed] she and Frick became lovers in 1937 and remained together until Frick's death in 1979 and a tormented relationship with Jerry Wilson. After ten years spent in Hartford, Connecticut, they bought a house in Northeast Harbor, Maine, on Mount Desert Island, where they lived for decades.[6] They are buried alongside each other at Brookside Cemetery, Somesville, Mount Desert, Maine.[8]In 1951, she published, in France, the novel Memoirs of Hadrian, which she had been writing on-and-off for a decade. The novel was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim. In this novel, Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing both his triumphs and his failures, his love for Antinous, and his philosophy. The novel has become a modern classic.In 1980, Yourcenar was the first female member elected to the Acadà mie française. An anecdote tells of how the bathroom labels were then changed in this male-dominated institution: "Messieurs|Marguerite Yourcenar" (Gents/Marguerite Yourcenar). She published many novels, essays, and poems, as well as a trilogy of memoirs. At the time of her death, she was working on the third volume, called Quoi? L'Eternità .[9]Yourcenar's house on Mount Desert Island, Petite Plaisance, is now a museum dedicated to her memory. She is buried across the sound in Somesville, Maine. (Wikipedia) First Edition with "First Printing, 1976" on the copyright page.
Editorial: np, NP 1924
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Poetry broadside, 35 x 21 cm. Scattered foxing and spotting, browned on verso, old fold lines. Two short, closed tears at upper and lower margins, lower left corner chipped, not affecting text. Inscribed by Markham in ink at the top, "For my friend, Audrey Ovington, with my western halloo," with a circle underneath. At the botto…m signed by Markham, with the date 1931. The poem, originally written in 1898, has five stanza of uneven length, a total of 49 lines. The first lines: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, / The emptiness of ages in his face." A caption review below the poem states that "[t]his poem has been repeatedly called 'the supreme poem of the century' and 'the battle-cry of the next thousand years.' " Markham was Poet Laureate of Oregon from 1923-1931. The fame of this poem meant that Markham was also often called to speak on labor issues.
