[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Dreiser Photograph INSCRIBED to his wife, price reduced
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Tue Jun 7 11:07:02 EDT 2016
Price reduced to $600 NET
DREISER, Theodore. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. . A fine 8" x 10" informal
photographic portrait of a seventy-year old Dreiser standing with one
hand in his pocket and the other leaning on a desk. INSCRIBED and SIGNED
at the bottom on his light-colored pants: "To/Lovely Helen/with
love--/from T.D./Hollywood/January 1942." Helen Richardson first met
Dreiser in 1919 and married him in 1944. Dreiser left his entire estate
to her in his will and, after her death in 1955, she was buried next to
him. In 1942, however, Dreiser and Helen were often apart with Dreiser
often romantically involved with another woman. Just a few months after
inscribing this photograph to his future wife, Dreiser had an eleven-day
fling with one of his ardent female admirers. Still, Dreiser's
inscription captures the great feeling he had for Helen from the
beginning. W. A. Swanberg in his biography DREISER sums up well their
relationship: "Although he still threatened at times to leave her,
Dreiser needed Helen for survival, Helen knew that he needed her, and he
knew that she knew" (p. 478). The photograph has a slight wrinkle in the
upper right corner restricted to the white border and not affecting the
image and a very short closed tear at the bottom left margin which just
enters the image. Near Fine and a touching association. (#009827)
$1,000.00
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