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000002552 02480 $$a382809
000002552 041__ $$aEnglish
000002552 1001_ $$aCummins, Maureen
000002552 245__ $$aFar Rockaway : a romantic correspondence / edited & with an introduction by Maureen Cummins.
000002552 264_1 $$bHigh Falls, New York : Maureen Cummins$$c2005
000002552 269__ $$a2005
000002552 300__ $$axi, 61 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
000002552 336__ $$atext
000002552 336__ $$aphysical object
000002552 336__ $$astill image
000002552 500__ $$aIn 2000 artist Maureen Cummins purchased a shoebox of about 100 love letters at a flea market in Manhattan, all written to the same man between 1906 and 1908, and most of them addressed to Far Rockaway, New York.  Attracted by the physical beauty of the writing and the stationary she purchased them largely unexamined.  Upon reading them she discovered that the writer was, in fact, another man.  In Cummins' words, "... they constituted a rare and precious treasure, being both an engaging testament of unrequited love, and a fascinating record of homosexual life in the early twentieth century." "This unique edition is limited to five hundred copies of which fifty deluxe copies,...coptic bound and boxed, contain facsimiles of selected letters, and are numbered 1-50.  Four hundred and fifty regular copies are bound in soft covers, slipcased and numbered 51-500."--Colophon.
000002552 542__ $$fIN COPYRIGHT
000002552 542__ $$uhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
000002552 590__ $$aPhotographed and posted with permission of the artist.
000002552 590__ $$aSkidmore has copies no. 22 (with facsimiles) and no. 72.
000002552 650__ $$aGay men--United States--Correspondence
000002552 650__ $$aGay men--United States--Social life and customs--20th century
000002552 650__ $$aGays--United States--Social life and customs--20th century
000002552 650__ $$aArtists' books--New York (State)
000002552 786__ $$tArtists' Book Collection - Call Number: N7433.4.C86 F37 2005
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000002552 980__ $$aArtists’ Books, Race, Identity & Gender