The Sun Turns West
- SIGNED Hardcover
- Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions, 1933
Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. SIGNED. 75pp. Small octavo [21 cm] Yellow cloth over boards with the title stamped in red on the backstrip and front board. Ink lettering on front board just a trifle rubbed. Very minor toning at foot of spine. In the dust jacket, with a small stain on the surface of the spine. Number 457 in an edition limited to 500 copies. Signed by Alice Corbin on the limitation page. This copy is additionally inscribed by Alice Corbin's daughter on the front free endpaper: "To a Poet- / from the daughter of one - / Alice Corbin's only child. / 'Little' Alice / January / 1976."
Poet, editor, and southwestern culture activist Alice Corbin Henderson (1881-1949) moved to New Mexico in 1916, after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Once there, she became an activist on behalf of the land and Native American civil rights. With her husband, the painter and furniture designer William Penhallow Henderson, she helped co-found the museum House of Navajo Religion (now the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian).
Poet, editor, and southwestern culture activist Alice Corbin Henderson (1881-1949) moved to New Mexico in 1916, after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Once there, she became an activist on behalf of the land and Native American civil rights. With her husband, the painter and furniture designer William Penhallow Henderson, she helped co-found the museum House of Navajo Religion (now the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian).