Manuscript draft copy "A Few Figs From Thistles, Poems and Sonnets" (Addition ViU-2017-0157)

Containers:

Folder 1

Extent:

0.03 Cubic Feet Letter size folder (may have to go in legal folder because the existing box is legal)

Scope and content:

Proof copy of Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles". Typescript in cover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles, Poems and Sonnets (New York: Frank Shay, 1921). 25 pp. Rare example of a pre-publication item from Frank Shay, a little-known publisher in Greenwich Village, New York who published small-run books, a magazine, and a newspaper from Frank Shay's Bookshop, 4 Christopher Street.

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

This collection was a purchase from Swan's Fine Books to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on September 2017.

Physical description:

Front cover is crumbling

Physical facet:

Draft copy in paper binding

Subjects:

Manuscripts (documents)

Access and use