Twice A Year, 15 volumes in 8 books.
The Dedication Set:
Three Volumes Inscribed by Alfred Stieglitz to Dorothy Norman
Three Volumes Inscribed by Norman to Stieglitz
One Volume Inscribed by Norman to Her Husband
Norman, Dorothy. Twice a Year. Vols. I-XIII (Fall/Winter 1938 – Fall/Winter 1945).
8 vols., 8vo.; occasional photographic plates tipped-in; printed wrappers with printed flaps, or wrappers with flaps over boards, as detailed below; light general wear. In two specially made cloth slipcases.
Together with:
Norman, Dorothy. Twice a Year. Vols. XIV-XV.
1 vol., tall 8vo.; single volume sealed in publisher’s shipping box. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
A nearly complete run of Norman’s “semi-annual journal of literature, the arts, and civil liberties—in book form” (publisher’s insert, volume one), which folded in 1948; inscribed as follows:
Vol. 1, stiff wrappers with flaps; publisher’s promotional insert; works by Rilke, Dreiser, Thoreau, Stieglitz, Malraux, Cummings, Kafka, Nin, Olson, and others. Norman opens the first volume with dedication leaf:
Twice a Year would not have come to fruition without the faith and the affirmation of Alfred Stieglitz. But that is not why it is dedication to him.
Stieglitz has said: To show the moment to itself is to liberate the moment.
And Twice a Year is dedicated to Stieglitz because he is one of the great liberators, one of the great spiritual forces of our time.
Twice a Year is further dedicated to those who speak in its pages—and to what is spoken about in them.
Inscribed by Stieglitz
Vol. 2, stiff wrappers with flaps; publisher’s “introductory note on issue two” loosely inserted; works by Proust, W.C. Williams, Marin, Laughlin, Shaw, Mumford, Gropius, and others. With an inscription leaf, shorter than the volume’s pages and on a different paper stock, tipped to the front endpaper: Sacred pages of a / sacred child— / Who has heart to / touch them? / Not I. — / For Dorothy / Alfred.
Inscribed by Stieglitz
Vol. 3-4, stiff wrappers with flaps; publisher’s “introduction note for special double number III-IV; works by Havelock Elis, Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, Saroyan, Rukeyser, and others. Inscribed on the first blank: Why Twice a Year— / Why not Dorothy’s Quarterly / For isn’t this book a perfect portrait of her Soul / For Dorothy [ ] / Alfred S.
Inscribed to Stieglitz
Vol. 5-6, wrappers with flaps over boards; works by Saroyan, Rukeyser, Norman, Stieglitz, W.C. Williams, Nin, Henry Miller, Lorca, Kafka, Margaret Sanger (on birth control), and others. Inscribed on the front endpaper: For Alfred— This Book is again yours, All of myself went into it. As all of myself goes into this dedication. D. This issue includes two portraits of Stieglitz by Norman.
Inscribed to Her Husband
Vol. 7, wrappers with flaps over boards; works by Commager, Proust, Rukeyser, Eli Cohen, Nin, Moran, Georgia O’Keefe, Ansel Adams, and others. Inscribed on the first blank: For Edward A. Norman / with love, D.
Vol. 7 (additional copy in a brown cardboard box), effusively inscribed on the first blank: The first copy for Alfred I give you this copy – with all the love in the world – As the years unfold and successive issues of Twice a Year emerge I realize more and more clearly that such feelings as I have for you – such togetherness that we have experienced - such a nourishing relationship – is a gift of God not to be repeated ever. You just phoned. As if you heard me writing this – I shout it in a whisper – YES. [Go!] D.
The box also bears an inscription by Stieglitz:
“Twice a Year/No. 7” /Dedicated copy/to Alfred Stieglitz/from/Dorothy Norman /Also/1 copy “Here I Stand”/by Beecher. Dedicated copy/by Dorothy
Together with:
Beecher, John. Here I Stand. New York: Twice a Year Press, (1941).
8vo.; white cloth, printed in black; white dust-jacket printed in black; a stunningly clean copy.
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