FLIGHT WITHOUT FEAR. by Palmer, Winthrop Bushnell

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Limited Edition, one of one hundred and sixty-five copies. Hardcover, in a slip case. Very good. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.75 inches in a slightly larger slip case. [10], 65, [4] pages. Winthrop Bushnell Palmer, an educator and author was the widow of Carleton Humphreys Palmer, a former president and chairman of E. R. Squibb & Sons. Mrs. Palmer, who in 1974 became the first woman to serve as chairwoman of the board of trustees of Long Island University, was an assistant professor of literature and fine arts at the university's Brookville campus. She and her husband established the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University. Mrs. Palmer wrote poetry and plays. Her poem, Kalamazoo, one of the longest in this volume, is perhaps the finest homage to this city in verse that this appreciator of fine poetry has experienced. Particularly striking were the lines My traffic's thrust aside/By… Read More