Edwina Dumm papers, 1924-1978

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Series IV: Books, 1928-1936

Series contains publications with illustrations by Edwina, dating from 1928 to 1936. The books emphasize the connection and publishing collaboration between Edwina and other animal and dog lovers of her time.



Box 1 Folder 7 Verdun Belle : originally published under the title "Two gentlemen and a lady" / by Alexander Woollcott ; illustrated by Edwina., 1928

Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1928.

Inscribed by Edwina "To Eve, a fellow New Yorker. Love, Edwina"

Marked as Discarded from Bellmore Memorial Library, Bellmore, New York


Box 1 Folder 8 Two gentlemen and a lady, by Alexander Woollcott, illustrations by Edwina, 1928

Publisher: Coward-McCann, New York, 1928.

Inscribed by Edwina "To my dear friend, Philip, Love, Edwina".

Include a clipping of "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" from an etching by Morgan Dennis, from New York Times Magazine, January 13, 1935; and a Christmas greetings note glued on the inside of a cover page


Box 1 Folder 8 Flush of Wimpole street and Broadway, by Flora Merrill, Edwina (Illustrator), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1933

Publisher: R.M. McBride & Company, New York, 1933.

Notes: Illustrated lining-papers.

"First published, September, 1933. Second printing before publication."

Include a loose clipping inside the book about the publication, and a note "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.-Flora, 1933." Also inscribed on the page by Edwina "To my old friend here, Love, Edwina". A news clipping titled "Old Trouper Dies, Associate of Miss Cornell was 7 years old", an obituary about Flush is also glued onto the title page of the book.


Box 1 Folder 7 Sonnets from the Pekinese, and other doggerel, by Burges Johnson with illustrations by Edwina, 1936

Publisher: [New York], Macmillan Co., 1936.

Inscribed by Edwina "To my friends, Mimi and [Hale], with love, Edwina"