Pratt Lenore (5 results)

Boards with Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good Condition. Limited Edition.250 Copies. Ryerson Poetry Chap-book#167.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. 15 pp., signed (no inscription) on ffep. No dust jacket, as issued. Ryerson Poetry Chap-Book #167, one of 250 copies. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Newspaper clippings of five more Pratt poems pasted to end papers, showing resultant offsetting. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. 15 pp. No jacket as issued. Chap-Book #167 in the Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks series, edited by Lorne Pierce. One of 250 copies. Some water staining to fore-edge perimeter of front and rear boards, else a nice crisp copy. Lenore A. Pratt was a well-known Ottawa poet whose poems were published in many Canadian magazines and newspapers. Ryerson published two books by her in its Chap-Book Series. Her poems appeared on a regular basis in the Ottawa Journal up until the 1970's.

Condition: Very good. Limited to 250 copies. 12 Pp. This is Chap-Book Number One Hundred and Twenty-Eight LENORE ALEXANDRA PRATT was born in Toronto, the daughter of James Alexander Tucker, one of the leaders of the student rebellion at the University of Toronto in 1895. She moved at the age of thirteen to Ottawa, where she remained until going to Newfoundland. Mrs. Pratt has written poetry since early childhood and her work has appeared in many periodicals in Canada, such as Saturday Night, Canadian Poetry, The Ottawa Journal, The Montreal Star, and Chatelaine. She was the mother of four children, but managed to find time for reading, music and needlework. Decorative card covers designed by Thoreau MacDonald.

Booklet. Condition: Near fine. Chapbook no. 128. 12 p. 22 cm. Blue paper covers. Light wear. 2 other poems by same author tucked in at rear.