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T I M
Robert Lowry, New York City,
New York, 1958. 13 pp.
Reprinted as a
facsimile edition by Robert Curry Publications,
[Chesapeake, Ohio], 1978. 16 pp.
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Jesse Stuart’s Tim was
written as an assignment in a creative
writing class at Lincoln Memorial
University in 1927. Although this is
technically a reprint edition, its
unique status makes it a candidate for
inclusion in this exhibit. Robert Lowry was
associated with The Little Man
magazine, when Tim was published as
a supplement in 1939. In 1958 Lowry
produced a mimeographed edition, running
off some fifty copies. He stapled the
pages
together on the left side; he
even used staples to write
out TIM on some of the covers. He
apparently numbered the first
twenty-five copies, which had a cover
price of one dollar. Copies of the
original
publication are extremely rare.
In 1978, on the twentieth anniversary of
the original’s publication, Robert Curry
of Chesapeake, Ohio, printed fifty facsimile copies, reproducing a copy
inscribed by Jesse Stuart to Lillian
Richards. Lowry had apparently sent five or
six copies to Stuart, and his may be the source
for the original copy in the facsimile.
The identity of
Lillian Richards is not known. Marshall
University Libraries acquired a number
of Jesse Stuart items from Robert Curry,
but not the original mimeographed copy
that he owned. The whereabouts of Curry’s original copy is not
presently known.
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