Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Slipcase Good. Signed/Inscribed by author on first blank page. (Airedales, Dogs, Poetry).
Published by [printed for private circulation by Kutterer-Jansen Printing Co., St. Louis], St Louis, MO, 1922
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
42 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition (a second edition was published in 1927). 42 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Rose Greenleaf Eliot Smith was the aunt of another St. Louis poet who published a book in 1922: The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot. The title poem and two others are written on the subject of Airedales; many of the other poems display a preoccupation with religious themes. Uncommon. St. Louis Poet, 1922. Quarter Japanese vellum stamped in gilt, taupe paper covered boards. Minor rubbing, else near fine First edition (a second edition was published in 1927).