Chords from a Strange Lyre

Allstorm, Oliver

Published by Chicago: Sims, Wilson & Sims, 1902

Condition: Used - Good Hardcover

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1st printing. Boards show some wear, rubbing, and toning; binding tight; pages clean; prior owner name on inside cover whited out. Autographed by Allstorm on front endpaper with 'Sincerely yours.' An early collection by the poet, published when he was 23 or 24. Allstorm's work was highly regarded for some years; in 1915, he composed the lyrics to the official song of the city of Houston. But if one googles his name now, what comes up are the vile anti-miscegenation poems he wrote that Klan-affiliated racist groups reprinted in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. From a skim, the only hint I find here of his racism is one dialect piece that's more embarrassingly goofy than offensive. 124 pages.

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Chords from a Strange Lyre

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Chicago: Sims, Wilson & Sims

Publication Date

1902

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Good

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Poetry

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Hi all! I've been accumulating volumes for well over half my life, mostly autographed and inscribed copies. Wrote a book on book collecting for a Random House imprint in 2004 and another, "Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age," for Chatwin Books, published in 2019. I intended to keep most of these books forever, but my wife and I decided to move to Manhattan, which meant downsizing from an enormous suburban house, with practically unlimited bookshelf space, to an apartment in Greenwich Village. So hello, AbeBooks!

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