Istar Ruth (1 results)

16mo, [26] pages. 15 cm., two-tone printed French-style boards, spine splitting, scuffed. RARE. This letter won the prize offered by the Chicago Tribune for the best love letter. "Ruth is the only name by which readers of 'The Tribune' ever will know the author. One years ago she wrote the letter which tells a story as old, as tragic, as heartrending and yet as noble as any in the World's Great Library of human emotion and experience. This was the Swan Song of Her Soul - Introduction." It includes an introductory poem, "Istar". WorldCat lists two copies of this work - and one of those is missing.…