Love Poems and Others

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. First American Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's original purple cloth titled in gilt to spine. 89pp. Spine darkened, with dulling of the gilt, minor light wear to extremities and spine ends, internally clean, a very good, solid little copy.

Bearing the exlibris of poet, essayist and café philosopher Glenway Westcott to the front flyleaf, above the distinctive plate of the Institute for Sex Research at the University of Indiana. There is a lengthy inscription memorialising the two Kinsey librarians who assisted Westcott during his visit:

"06/29/72, Ex Dono; Susan Matusak, Helen Hofer, the pretty (truncated) and intelligent and knowledgeable young librarians who took counsel with me in the last week in June, in Blessed Bloomington, Glenway Westcott"

A characteristically effusive inscription from Westcott, who must have been the kind of visitor that Blessed Bloomington cries out for on a slow day at the Kinsey, regardless of what Gertrude Stein thought of him. As an additional point he's probably one of the few people to visit a special collections library and leave with one of their books, without the involvement of law enforcement. (Inventory #: 83675)