Book - Spun from the Sea by Grace Miner Lippincott
Spun from the Sea by Grace Miner Lippincott, Copy 1 - Has dust jacket
1943 (Date published)
Spun from the Sea by Grace Miner Lippincott holds 62 pages of poetry and was published in 1943 by Banner Press Publishers at Emory University in Georgia, 8vo (204 x 137mm), pp. 62. This title is bound in blue pebble cloth, the upper cover holds the title stamped in gold, and is in its original dust jacket. On the front flyleaf of this copy is a handwritten note reading "See from sale (?) / 28 July 1944" on one side and a black and white image that is presumably glued in by Lippincott herself on the other side. Under the image reads "Old picture of Ichabod Scranton, Edward Francis, Thaddeus Camp - Spinning Sea Yarns 1900". On the page to the right of this image is Lippincott's autograph with an inscription that reads, "Written and inscribed for the readers who feel the lure of Madison Connecticut / Grace Miner Lippincott 1944." There is another black and white photograph pasted onto page 11, labeled "Old mast of the Mount Hope".Grace's work includes many direct references to local life. This includes "Leather Man" (pg 46), "Supper Dance at Uncle Dick's" (pg 49), "Burning of Madison Shipyard" (pg 58), "Tuxis Lake" (pg 60), and "Tuxis Island (pg 61). On page 63 is a line drawing of Tuxis Island.Grace Miner Lippincott was a prolific and renowned poet with six published books, more than 1100 published poems, and ten anthologies. Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, Grace graduated from Madison High School in 1895 and was married to Philadelphia native Levi Lippincott a year later. She spent the rest of her days at the home she and her husband built in Madison in 1907; they called the home “Whimsey Acres,” Learn more about Grace at www.madisonhistory.org/grace-miner-lippincott/
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