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[Collection of five books, inscribed by the author to Otto Kraus, her Czech language teacher, comprising:] Mozart. [And:] Of Lena Geyer. [And:] The Valley of Decision. [And:] East Side, West Side. [And:] Too Strong for Fantasy
by Davenport, Marcia
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Original cloth without dust jackets. Two titles with some minor rubbing, else Near Fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Marcia Davenport began to learn Czech during the war; her teacher was Otto Kraus, attached to the Czechoslovak consulate in New York (and later commercial attaché during the brief postwar government of Masaryk). A firm friendship arose, as the inscriptions on these books document. In 1946 Davenport was witness to Kraus's wedding in New York City and thereafter inscribed books to the couple.
Mozart is inscribed "To Otto Kraus With appreciation for your beautiful Praha, which I first learned to love through working on this book; and in the certainty that we will all meet there in freedom and happiness again. Marcia Davenport New York November 1941."
Davenport's autobiography, Too Strong for Fantasy (1967), is inscribed To Vlasta and Otto Kraus in old friendship, Marcia Davenport, New York, September 1967."Davenport, who never wrote about her connections with Czechoslovakia before this autobiography, briefly recalls her efforts to learn Czech at p. 292.
Details
- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 222350
- Title
- [Collection of five books, inscribed by the author to Otto Kraus, her Czech language teacher, comprising:] Mozart. [And:] Of Lena Geyer. [And:] The Valley of Decision. [And:] East Side, West Side. [And:] Too Strong for Fantasy
- Author
- Davenport, Marcia
- Format/Binding
- 5 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original cloth without dust jackets. Two titles with some minor rubbing, else Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First editions
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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