Autumn Leaves: A Collection of Poems

Burton Publishing Company, Kansas City, MO. 1938. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFFP with a notation of Book II. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; slight shelfwear; light dust soiling to textblock edges. DJ is the original cellulose which has been folded up is laid in the front. Red moire silk over boards which gives a very attractive vertical curtain effect to the boards; this overlies an embossed pattern of leaves on the front board. Tarnished gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 191 pp 8vo. The author is a poet, playwright, novelist, and a painter who has earned both an A.B and D. Lit (Doctorate in Literature). This book has the verse forms of the sonnet, triolet, ballade, cinquain and trizad. The poems are of philosophy, religion, love lyrics, elegies, satires, and Negro dialect. A clean very presentable copy.