Van Emden Frieda W (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: very good(-). Grey cloth octavo; book xvi, 105 pages, illustrations, 21 cm. Poetry and rhyme. Texas Humor. English language -- Dialects -- Texas. English language -- Texas. Americanisms -- Texas. Americanisms. English language. English language -- Dialects. Language and languages. Warning: Racist content. Some small, light stains on front cover, slight edgewear. Gently bumped corners. Small gift inscription to front free endpaper. Else about very good(-) overall. Fifth printing of stated revised edition. Leslie Turner (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 books, clothbound. Each inscribed and signed by the author Frieda W. van Emden to her friend Sadie Kaplan-Katz [Mrs Milton Katz]. Both clean, and well-kept copies, VG+ with no dust jackets. "Sure Enough, How Come?" yellowish linen-color cloth binding, xvi + 105 page 1938 Texas dialect poetry. The introduction by J. Frank Dobie is entitled "The Sign Post". Revised from the 1933 edition. Illustrated by Leslie Turner. Inscribed "To dear Sadie Kaplan-Katz/ Frieda W. van Emden/ 5-30-39". "Sunday Paper" a prose book, is a 206 pages first edition from 1939, is bound in salmon-pink coarse cloth, and has Mrs Katz' bookplate neatly mounted on the front endpaper. The book is inscribed in ink on the half-title pages"For Sadie Katz,/ whom such misfortunes may never touch!/ Frieda van Emden/ May 30th, 1939/ Wichita Falls, Texas". Inscribed by Author(s). …