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Price: US$14.45 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Edition limited to 1000 unnumbered copies in the publisher's green cloth with gold spine lettering, octavo, pp. 55 plus colophon. Frontis photograph of Dorothy Healy and other black and white illustrations. This copy SIGNED on the free front endpaper by four of the book's contributors (essayists William David Barry; Gael May McKibben; Frances W. Peabody; and designer Bruce Kennett) to Bella Cowan, Bangor native but Saco resident after 1964, and former owner (with her husband, Harold) of Sam's Place of Biddeford and then Main Street in Saco, where she was sometimes called "The Mayor of Main Street." This copy and its opaque dust jacket are graded FAIR-only due to old tide lines on the exterior, perhaps from a coffee spill (see image for our best attempt at a close-up). Clean and unmarked internally. Two little bonuses here for bibliophiles: (1) the inclusion of contributor Francis O'Brien, regarded frequently as the "Dean" of Maine antiquarian booksellers; and (2) printing at the venerable Stinehour Press.
Seller: T. Brennan Bookseller (ABAA / ILAB), Ellsworth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 1000. Inscribed & signed by 4 of the authors -William David Barry, Gael May McKibben, Francis W. Peabody + Bruce Kennett on RFEP.
Seller: General Eclectic Books, Gray, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: Inscription fep "To Jack with Best Wishes" signed by Bill Barry, Francis M. O'Brian, Gael May McKibben, Bruce Kennett. Few individuals of our time have made as many contributions to the cultural life of Maine as Dorothy Healy. The "Jack" in the inscription was Jack Barnes, prolific author from Hiram, Maine. VG in plain paper wrapper as dj.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: good plaini gray translucent dust-jacket with title written in ink on spine, very good green cloth, handwritten editorial correction on page 3. SIGNED on front endpaper by three contributors: William David Barry, David E. Philips, Francis M. O'Brien, and four others Joseph W. P. Frost, Earl S. Shelfworth (?), Stephen Trent Seamly (?), Nicholas Noyes - who presumably also ahd a relationship to the production of the book. HEALY, DOROTHY, (subject). . A passionate intensity: the life and work of Dorothy Healy. Portland, Maine: The Baxter Society, 1992, stated First Edition, Edition of 1000 copies, 55pp., . The text was composed in Monotype Bell and printed on acid-free Mohawk Superfine by Dorothy's friends at the Stinehour Press, and smyth sewn and bound by Acme Bookbinding. - Healy, Dorothy, 1914-1990. - CONTENTS: We honor a founder / Eliot H. Stanley -- Dorothy Healy: a biographical sketch / Gael May McKibben and William David Barry -- Life-enhancing Dorothy / May Sarton -- New recognition for Maine women writers / David E. Philips -- Personal reflections, October 21, 1990 / Richard F. Bond -- Illustrations -- A many faceted woman / James F. Dickinson -- Dorothy Healy and the Maine Woman Writers Collection: a reminiscence / Francis M. O'Brien -- Dorothy Healy, patron of the arts / Joyce Butler -- Dorothy M. Healy, true country woman / Sue McConkey -- For the service to celebrate the life of Dorothy Healy, October 12, 1900 / Frances W. Peabody -- Exegisti monumentum aere perennius. In piam memoriam. Dorothy Healy / Donal Taheny -- Some of Dorothy's reflections in The Mirror -- Autumnal migration / John Vincent Healy -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.