Yesterday's flea market excursion provided me with a few ephemeral items one of which intersects with my bookplate collection.I obtained a copy of The Quill a monthly magazine devoted to Greenwich Village.
What caught my eye was the distinctive cover art by Clara Tice.
The Quill was started by Arthur H.Moss, a vagabond publisher.
"Arthur
Harold Moss was an American expatriate poet, and magazine
editor.
In 1917, he returned to Greenwich
Village, founding The Quill with partner Harold
Hersey and was managing editor and wrote articles.
It included artists Clara
Tice, Wood
Gaylor, Mark
Toby and Alfred J
Frueh; writers
included Ben De
Casseres.
He married Millia
Davenport (1895–1992) and worked with her at The Quill. They co-authored, The Quill: For And By Greenwich
Village, vol.4, no.8, 1919.
They separated shortly thereafter. She
went on to design costumes.
In 1920, he hired his future wife Florence
Gilliam to edit Quill. In 1921 they moved to Paris,
into a small apartment near
Shakespeare
& Company,
the bookstore owned by Sylvia
Beach"
Getting back to Clara Tice,here are some examples of her bookplates:
If you have any Clara Tice bookplates please send scans and they will be added to this posting
I found a well researched site by Patricia Guenter which is devoted to Clara Tice.
It includes a biography and a bibliography:
Getting back to Clara Tice,here are some examples of her bookplates:
These Next Items were submitted by Tom Boss
Here is a photo of Clara Tice and her dog
If you have any Clara Tice bookplates please send scans and they will be added to this posting
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
I found a well researched site by Patricia Guenter which is devoted to Clara Tice.
It includes a biography and a bibliography:
When I was a kid cigarettes came in packages with Aluminum foil.
The foil was different from what we are accustomed to using nowadays.
It was laminated onto paper.
The foil was different from what we are accustomed to using nowadays.
It was laminated onto paper.
Edith Head the Hollywood Costume designer had a bookplate which was printed on the old fashioned
Aluminum foil and for this reason it has not aged well .
Under magnification by the elephants rear leg you can see the artist's name Howard Greer*
*"Howard Greer (16 April 1896 – April 1974), Hollywood fashion and
costume in the Golden Age of American
cinema.
Greer began his fashion career at Lucile in 1916, working in both her New York and
Chicago branches.
He served in France
during World War I. After the war, he remained in Europe, working for Lucille, Paul Poiret, and Molyneux..
He returned to America in 1921,
and through his theatre work was hired as chief designer for Famous
Players-Lasky studios, which was later to emerge from several
reorganizations and mergers as Paramount Pictures.
Greer left his post at Paramount and opened his own
couture operation in Hollywood in December 1927, where he designed custom clothing for the
stars until his retirement in 1962.
He also continued to create costumes for films into
the 1950’s, and designed mass-market clothing.
His best known film work includes the Katharine Hepburn films Christopher Strong(1933) and Bringing Up Baby (1938), and the gowns
for 1940's My Favorite Wife.
Greer
published an autobiography, Designing Male, in
1951."
John Renjilian sent the following information upcoming book shows.
If you have not tried it lately, go to the newly revamped
This is promised to be
the most complete list of fairs in the country and will be well worth keeping in
mind
..
I'll see you next Sunday with a guest article about Amy M. Sacker
Here are some ads fromThe Quill
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