Signed 1St Edition

Ruth LE PRADE / SONG TREE Signed 1st Edition 1943

Ruth LE PRADE / SONG TREE Signed 1st Edition 1943

Ruth LE PRADE / SONG TREE Signed 1st Edition 1943
Signed first edition of this collection of 52 verses by Ruth Le Prade, a socialist activist as well as writer, signed in the year of publication. Very good in a very good jacket. Promotional materials laid in, including a program for events at the Poet's Garden, where Le Prade hosted a number of readings and other literary and political events. Le Prade dedicated SONG TREE to Edwin Markham, her mentor, and the jacket features a reproduction of a letter by Markham praising her work; an additional printed copy (not holograph) of this letter and a poem by Markham are also laid in. Publisher's green boards in original dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn at edges with some toning. Also includes promotional progam, 3.75" x 7.25" approx. And two reproductions of letters by Edwin Markham 8.5" x 11" and 5.5" x 8.5" approx.

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Ruth LE PRADE / SONG TREE Signed 1st Edition 1943