[Rarebooks] FS: Hampshire Bookshop Guest Book Signed by Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thornton Wilder, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

               [STEIN,  Gertrude;  TOKLAS, Alice;  ROOSEVELT,  Eleanor;
          WILDER,  Thornton; CHESTERTON, G. K.; WALPOLE, Horace; etc.].
          HAMPSHIRE  BOOKSHOP  GUEST  BOOK, 1921-42,  SIGNED  BY  MANY.
          Northampton,  MA:  1921  - 1942. First Edition.  A  guestbook
          bound in  full  brown leather with yapped fore-edge and  gilt
          lettering  on  the front cover from Marion  Dodd's  legendary
          Hampshire  Bookshop in Northampton, Massachusetts. There  are
          eight pages  of  entries,  between 1921 and 1942,  by  guests
          such as  Gertrude  Stein, Alice B. Toklas,  Thornton  Wilder,
          Christopher  Morley, Richard Halliburton, Hugh Walpole, G. K.
          Chesterton,  Rachel  Field  (with a drawing  of  a  Scottie),
          Eleanor  Roosevelt,  Richard Curle, John Drinkwater,  Dorothy
          Canfield  Fisher, and others. Mostly more than one to a  page
          and some  adding  comments  as do Stein and  Toklas  who  are
          together  alone  on one page. Stein's entry  reads:  "January
          11/35 at  Smith.  For Marion Dodd and a pleasant  visit  in a
          pleasant  airy windowed place. Gertrude Stein." Toklas writes
          just below  Stein: "To Marion Dodd whose Hampshire Book  Shop
          is now  so  much  more  than a name. Alice  B.  Toklas."  The
          remaining  pages  are  blank.   The  Hampshire  Bookshop  was
          founded  in 1916 by two alumnae of Smith College: Marion Dodd
          and Mary  Byers Smith. After several changes of ownership  it
          closed  in 1971. Minor wear to be expected from such an  item
          Very Good                                            $4000.00



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