For the first time in my life I saw what a luxury it was for a poor girl to want to be alone in a room... [Broadside with a selection from "Bread Givers," printed on handmade paper]

Yezierska, Anzia

Martinsville, Indiana: Helaine Victoria Press, 1987. Broadside. 8.5x11 inch broadside, printed by Jocelyn H. Cohen on handmade rag, string, and jute paper using a Chandler and Price platen press. Very good.

A selection from Yezierska's 1925 work, reflecting on her sense of relief as an impoverished Jewish immigrant to have the prospect of a rented room all to herself. Helaine Victoria Press, which took its name from the middle names of founders Jocelyn Helaine Cohen and Nancy Taylor Victoria Poore, published broadsides, posters, and other formats of work, but was best known for its women’s history postcard series. It started with an offset press in Santa Monica but switched to an 80-year old cast iron letterpress, noted by Cohen as “the method which was standard when we were trying to get the vote.” The press later moved to Indiana, and was ultimately donated to the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, where the letterpress now resides.

Cat.No: 280059

Price: $60.00