Time for Thought: Poems and Stories
Morison, Rufus A., M. D., With a Foreword by Robert Porterfield
Published by Exposition Press, New York, 1954
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First Edition. Hardcover. VERY SCARCE. FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Rufus A. Morison was born in Gate City, Virginia, a small town in the far Southwest corner of Virginia. He was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 1917 he was commissioned into the Medical Reserve Corps, where he was appointed to the Heart Commission at the Colchester Heart Hospital, England. He joined the Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Virginia (also in rural Southwestern Virginia) in 1921 and was Chief of the Hospital Staff at publication of this book. The poems include dialect folk poems of the hill people in the South,as well as poems of grief and poems of love. An unusual and interesting collection. 8vo. Grey cloth covered boards with blue title to spine. Light yellowing to interior. Slight musty smell. Inscription to front free end page. White and blue dust jacket with blue title to spine and white title to front panel. Minor foxing, edgewear, and browning to dust jacket. 94 pages. POE/021819. Seller Inventory # 32895
Bibliographic Details
Title: Time for Thought: Poems and Stories
Publisher: Exposition Press, New York
Publication Date: 1954
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition.
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