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the fire of rebellion burn brighter. Harsher punishment will be a direct invitation to more drastic acts of militancy”. We trace only one institutional copy of this fragile and extremely uncommon item: at the London School of Economics. Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement , pp. 487–99. £575 [120645] 110 PANKHURST, E. Sylvia. The Suffragette. The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement. New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1911 Octavo. Original green vertical-ribbed cloth, spine and front board lettered in white and ruled in blind. With the dust jacket. Black and white photo- graphic frontispiece and 31 photographic plates. A very good copy in notably bright, fresh cloth, the spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bruised, endpapers toned; in the exceptionally rare dust jacket, browned and foxed with some splits and chips. first edition, in the extremely uncommon dust jacket; the first such copy that we have handled, and to our knowledge the only jacket recorded as appearing in commerce for either the first UK or US edition. The Suffragette , acknowledged by Sylvia Pankhurst’s biographer to be her “best known work” (Harrison, p. 223), is a revealing chronicle of the movement which more fully develops Pankhurst’s earlier instalments of suffrage history published in Votes for Women (see item 113). It was published later the same year in London by Gay & Hancock Limited from American sheets. Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement , p. 520; Harrison, Shirley, Sylvia Pankhurst: A Crusading Life , Aurum, 2003. £6,500 [130782] 111 PARKER, Dorothy. Enough Rope. New York: Horace Liveright, 1933 [bound with:] Sunset Gun. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1934 2 works bound in 1 volume, octavo (184 × 125 mm). Contemporary blue- green levant morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt at head and foot, and
to second and fourth compartments, raised bands, “Frances Marion” let- tered in gilt to bottom right corner of front board, morocco turn-ins, pat- terned endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine and top of boards sunned, very mild shelfwear and boards ever so slightly splayed, bottom edge of book block a little crushed in places, else a highly attractive volume, the contents clean, trimmed in the binding process (not affecting text). First editions, later printings, presentation copies, specially bound and inscribed by the author to Frances Marion, the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century , on inserted cards before each work: “This signature is for Frances Marion — I wish I had hers—Dorothy Parker”; “To Frances Marion, than whom [ sic ]—Dorothy Parker”. Frances Marion (1888–1973) was the first writer of either gender to win two Academy Awards, and was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Though better known for her poetry and prose, Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) also excelled at screenwriting during the post-silent era, co-writing, among oth- ers, A Star Is Born (1937), which received an Academy Award nom- ination for Best Writing, Screenplay, and Saboteur (1942), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Parker (at the time a Vanity Fair drama critic) and Marion became friends after Marion’s return from the war. They were linked through the Algonquin Hotel in New York, where Marion lived at various points, and meeting place of the Algonquin Round Table, of which Parker was a founder member. Presentation copies of Parker’s work are rare—we can trace just nine in the past 80 or so years, and none with such a superb association as this, or bound thus (it was perhaps bound for Marion or at her instruction). Both Enough Rope and Sunset Gun are poetry collections: the former is the 24th printing (January 1933; first published December 1926), the latter the 13th (April 1934; first published June 1928). See Beauchamp, Cari, Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood , University of California Press, 1997. £3,750 [131547]
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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