Cat.No: 273424 Hilda [poems]. Hilda Vaughn.

Hilda [poems]

New York: Privately printed by Clarke & Way at Thistle Press, 1962. Hardcover. 25p., prefatory biographical sketch, near fine first edition limited to 100 copies in powder blue boards with very mild sunning to spine.

Posthumous publication by friends and family. Vaughn was an actress on Broadway and in films of the 1930s -1940s. She appeared mainly as a domestic servant or clerk. She played Jean Harlow's blackmailing maid in "Dinner at Eight." But she also played the lead on stage in Maugham's "Rain." The Hollywood blacklist interrupted her career but she made a return before her death in 1957. Only one holding located in OCLC as of 2/2024 at University of Pennsylvania.

Cat.No: 273424

Price: $150.00