Description: Imagina. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. 177 pages. Signed and inscribed to Norman Miller and his children. "To Norman Thomas' children, hoping they will like my little friends Rex & Imagina. With affection from Julia Ellsworth Ford." Norman Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was an American political activist. He achieved fame as a socialist and pacifist, and was the Socialist Party of America's candidate for president in six consecutive elections between 1928 and 1948. He was one of the founders of the National Civil Liberties Bureau, the precursor of the American Civil Liberties Union A young, motherless boy, a dreamer who secretly loves poetry, yearns to be held and loved by the beautiful woman he has conjured in his mind in the dim moonlight - Imagina - and communes with trees, birds, flowers, and his dog, Kit, all of whom understand and accept him as he is rather than how his no-nonsense guardian would prefer him to be. Pictorial endpapers in pale blue and white by Lauren Ford. Two color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white drawings in the text by Lauren Ford. Julia Ellsworth Ford was a New York socialite, art collector and patron, and author of children's books. She was married to Simeon Ford, a financier and co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in New York. Ford presided over a salon that included the Lebanese mystic Kahlil Gibran, Irish poet W. B. Yeats, and American dancer Isadora Duncan. Her published works include: Simeon Solomon: An Appreciation (1908), Imagina (1914), and Snickerty Nick (1919), among others. Published 1923 by E P Dutton Company, New York. Fair condition. Wear to cover, including splits on both sides of spine cloth. Good binding and hinges. Text is clean and complete.
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Location: Buffalo, New York
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