[Rarebooks] FS: The Silhouette: A Quarterly Magazine of Stories in Profile, 1916-1917

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

J. Torrey Connor (1869-1937), editor.

The Silhouette: A Quarterly Magazine of Stories in Profile.

Oakland, California: Torrey Connor, 1916-1917. 

Volume I, Number 1, through Volume I, Number 4.

Four issues.  8vo.  10 1/8 x 7 1/8 inches.  Total pages for 4 numbers: 92.  Text clean, unmarked.  Printed wrappers with a front cover design by Perham Wilhelm Nahl (1876-1935), yapp edges, stapled; binding square and tight, light shelf wear, some wear to the edges, pencil notations on upper corners of front covers.  Tipped in portrait of a different California author laid in each issue; Ina Coolbrith; Herman Whitaker; Dell H. Munger; and Jack London.  In Good condition. 

This grouping includes the first four issues of The Silhouette: A Quarterly Magazine of Stories in Profile.  J. Torrey Connor (1869-1937) was the editor and guiding light of the publication which ran to 8 Volumes from 1916 to 1924.  Not only was Connor tied into the Oakland bohemia that included Jack London, but she was familiar with many of California's leading authors of the time.  These issues include the first appearance in print of "The Prodigal Calf" by Agnes Morley Cleaveland and Eugene Manlove Rhodes, and work by Kate Douglas Wiggin (author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm),  Ina Coolbrith, Olive Percival, Herman Whitaker, and Jack London.  The front cover illustration was designed by Connor's nephew, the noted California artist Perham Wilhelm Nahl.  Full bibliographical listing and / or images available upon request.

$ 200; trade courtesies allowed.

Postage: $ 5.00 Media Mail, within the Continental US.  International shipping or priority mail at cost.

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Sincerely,

John Howell, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

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