Hoxsie Sells His Acres

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Text block in very good condition, with no marks, tears, or dog-ears. Book is tight. Pages are age-tanned. Previous owner?s bookplate is pasted on first free endpaper. A small clipping about the author is pasted inside front cover. The tan cloth cover is in good condition but for some discoloration at the top of the back cover. The title on the spine is legible, but the spine is sun-faded and bumped (top and bottom). NOTE THAT SINCE THE BOOK WEIGHS OVER ONE POUND, THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE U.S., SO PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE ORDERING. XX From Wikipedia: Christopher Grant La Farge was an American novelist and poet known for writing verse novels that chronicled life in Rhode Island. La Farge was born in New York City, the son of the architect Christopher Grant LaFarge and Florence Bayard Lockwood LaFarge. His paternal grandfather was the painter and stained-glass artist John La Farge and his younger brother Oliver Hazard Perry also became a novelist. He grew up in New York City and in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, and later moved to the family farm (named The River Farm) near Saunderstown, which was given to him by his father. He attended St. Bernard's School (New York) and Groton School (Massachusetts). La Farge, known as "Kipper" to friends and family, enrolled in Harvard College in 1915, but his college career was interrupted by World War I. After reserve officer training in Plattsburg, NY, in 1916 and in 1918, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the cavalry. Discharged after four months in France, he returned to college. While at Harvard, he was an editor for the Harvard Advocate literary magazine. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in 1920 and went on to complete a B.S. from the School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1923. In June 1923, he married Louisa Ruth Hoar (1898?1945), daughter of Congressman Rockwood Hoar of Massachusetts and stepdaughter of Congressman Frederick H. Gillett. President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding attended the wedding. They had two children: the cardiologist Christopher Grant Champlin LaFarge (born 1928) and the writer William Ellis Rice ?WER? LaFarge. Louisa died of cancer in 1945, and in 1946 LaFarge married Violet Amory Loomis (born 1918), with whom he had a son, the writer Thomas Sargeant LaFarge. With this marriage, he also gained two stepchildren, William Farnsworth Loomis and Joan Loomis. From 1924 to 1931, La Farge worked as a designer for the New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. During this period, he also exhibited his watercolors at such New York art galleries as Ferargil (1930) and Wildenstein (1931). Following the success of his brother Oliver?s novel about Navajo Indian life, Laughing Boy, LaFarge worked with his father on exhibits of Native American arts at the Brooklyn Museum. In 1931, he left McKim, Mead & White to join his father?s architectural firm of LaFarge, Warren, and Clark (later renamed La Farge and Son). In 1933, he designed a monument to the Jesuit missionary Andrew White in Maryland near St. Mary's City. However, the Great Depression drove the firm out of business, and LaFarge abandoned architecture as a career. In 1932, La Farge moved his family to Kent, England, where he wrote his first novel, Hoxsie Sells His Acres (1934), a verse chronicle about a Rhode Island landowner who decides to sell his farmland for development. La Farge?s goal in writing his novel in verse was to "make this a comprehensible form as interesting as the novel in prose and more moving." In 1934, he moved back to the United States, where he split his time between Rhode Island and New York. Several of his subsequent books were also set in Rhode Island, and he became known as a skillful observer of this region. He also began contributing stories and poems to magazines like the New Yorker, The American, Harper's, and the Saturday Review of Literature. Seller Inventory # 000178

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