BETWEEN ME AND LIFE; a biography of Romaine Brooks
signed first edition
1974 · NY
by SECREST, Meryle
NY: Doubleday, 1974. First Edition. 8vo, pp.xviii, 432. Illustrated with a few drawings and photographs. Inscribed by the author to editor and poet William Claire: "To Bill Claire | For his artist's eye | and ear, | Affectionately Meryle Secrest | Nov. 1974". A very good copy in lightly scuffed dj. Claire was the editor of the American periodical "Voyages". Brooks was an American artist who held a salon attended by artists, writers, and others in Paris. (Inventory #: 59292)