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VINTAGE OLD BOOK
OUT OF THIS WORLD A COLLECTION OF HERMITS AND RECLUSES BY HELEN WORDEN ERSKINE. PUBLISHED BY G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1953.
ORIGINAL DUST JACKET IS GONE, FLAPS FROM THE DJ ARE FASTENED INSIDE.
FROM THE DUST JACKET:
"... IN THIS BOOK A FASCINATING GALLERY OF HERMITS AND RECLUSES COMES TO LIFE THROUGH THE SYMPATHETIC AND LIVELY PEN OF HELEN WORDEN ERSKINE. MANY OF THEM SHE MET AND TALKED WITH WHEN, AS A REPORTER ON THE WORLD TELEGRAM, SHE WAS CARRYING OUT ASSIGNMENTS FOR HER PAPER. IT WAS MRS. ERSKINE WHO FIRST BROKE THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS COLLYER BROTHERS WHO LIVED ALONE IN THE HARLEM SECTION O FIFTH AVENUE, SURROUNDED BY DARK LEGENDS AND BURIED BENEATH AN AGE OLD COLLECTION OF RUBBISH, INCLUDING AND OLD FORD AUTOMOBILE IN PARTS, A CANOE, AND HUNDREDS OF BALES OF OLD NEWSPAPERS. SHE COVERED, TOO, THE ROMEROS, RICH CUBANS, MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, WHO HAVE NEVER LEFT THE SUITE IN A WEST SIDE HOTEL WHERE SENOR ROMERO DIED MANY YEARS AGO WHILE THE FAMILY WAS VACATIONING IN NEW YORK. UNIQUE AMONG HERMITS WAS FATHER MIKE, MYSTERIOUS MINER IN COLORADO, WHOSE DREAMS OF NUCLEAR FISSION AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY LED HIM TO SEND SAMPLES OF THE URANIUM WHICH HE DISCOVERED ON HIS CLAIM TO MADAME CURIE FOR HER EXPERIMENTS... HELEN WORDEN ERSKINE, WIDOW OF THE LATE JOHN ERSKINE, WHOM SHE MARRIED IN 1945, WAS BORN IN COLORADO. SHE BEGAN HER WRITING CAREER ON THE NEW YORK WORLD IN 1926, AND FROM 1931 TO 1944 SHE WAS A STAFF WRITER ON THE NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM. SHE IS NOW ON THE STAFF OF COLLIER'S.."
CONTENTS INCLUDE: HERMITS FROM HARLEM-THE COLLYER BROTHERS. VICTORIAN MELODRAMA-MARY E. WOOD. THE LAST OF THE WENDELS -ELLA WENDEL. MADISON SQUARE MYSTERY- MARY AND WILLIAM COLGATE COLBY. A FAMILY FEUD- THE LEARY SISTERS. HENRY GREEN'S DAUGHTER-SYLVIA GREEN WILKS. WALKING SECRETS-THE HERZOG SISTERS. HERMITS OF DREAM STREET- THE ROMEROS. COUSIN MAMIE-MARY BULLOCK POWERS. MISS GERTUDE'S SECRET-GERTRUDE TREDWELL. THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS-EMILY THORN. KEEP THE FAMILY PORTRAITS DUSTED-THE HART SISTERS. THE LAST OF THE STUYVESANTS -A. VAN HORNE STUYVESANT. MRS. COOGAN'S REVENGE-MRS. JAMES J. COOGAN. SEQUESTERED SOULS- MRS DUNCAN PHYFE;MRSL JAME LEE FINNEY;MRS STODDARD SHAW;MISS ANN HUBBARD. AS LONG AS MAMA LIVES -THE BATCHELORS. QUEST FOR AN EGLISH HERMIT-LADY HESTER LUCY STANHOPE. COLORADO HERMITS- MR. D.K. JNES, BABY DOE TABOR;FATHER MIKE.
PAGES VERY GOOD CONDITION. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK. LIBRARY MARKINGS. TAPE ON COVER, TAPE ON INSIDE BACK HINGE.
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