CROWDED HOURS
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First re-issue dated 1935 ("at a popular price" - $1.00 - according to publisher statement on dj flap) after the first of 1933. Inscribed by Alice Roosevelt in aged hand on the ffe "October 29th, 1973. Teri Noel Towe, with whom I just had a delightful chatter. Alice Longworth Roosevelt" Towe, a graduate of Deerfield Academy, then Princeton was a law student at the time at UVA in Charlottesville . He went on to become a practicing attorney in Manhattan but was better known as an authority on classical music, especially Bach and Handel, and the work of harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, who was a personal friend. Alice (1884- 1980), daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, was a Washington celebrity and socialite; at the time of her meeting with Towe she was about 90 years old. Very Good / Very Good. Item #013969
Price: $250.00