The Truth About Men and Other Matters (with a Laid in Card Signed By her)
New York; (1927): Avondale Press. Octavo. Item #031568
viii, 242 pages. While her initial fame was her race around the world against Nellie Bly, her initial literary legacy was in editing the letters and writings of Lafcadio Hearn, whom she had first met as a teenager in New Orleans. In "The Truth About Men "on pages 25-32 she writes about "the sex complex" or the libido impulse which she sees as important but cautions no man or woman need to talk about the intimacies of the marriage bed. Her chapter on Japan describes its beauties and includes a long poem written about the culture. Laid in is a card to her friend Mary C. Finney: She writes: "As you helped with this, it may amaze you to see it completed. And it takes you every good wish for Christmas & a Happy New Year from the author." Elizabeth Richland Wetmore, University of Virginia, 1927. Mary Finney gave the book in 1957 to her friend Gale Morrison, with the further note: "this appreciation of the beauty of the literary work of Elizabeth Bisland (Mrs. Charles W. Wetmore)". Laid in is her typewritten chapter: "the Lute of Jade" on pages 105-114. A very good copy bound in purple cloth lettered in white, spine lettering white, spine faded, board edges rubbed, some wear to spine ends and corners, two small closed edges tears to pages 90 and 91. A very scarce work.
Price: $625.00