The Army Of Days and Other Verse
Boston: Shreman, French & Company, 1911. Hardcover. 12mo. hardcover in olive gree paper covered boards over white linen cloth; lettered in gilt. 84 pp. Frontispiece photograph. Generally fine, a mere touch of soiling to the spine strip. Collection of Maclafferty's poetry. This copy from the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and author Lute Pease. Pease has written a long manuscript notation on the front free endpaper: "from MacLafferty/ My friend who wrote:/ 'The City Loved Around The World" page 58/ With Whitaker we called onJoaquin Miller one summer evening in So. Oakland and helped get in his crop of hay/ Miller--He called me "Alaska Lute" (those dear old days!)" Liad in are a newspaper clipping concerning the sale of Pease's personal effcts five years after his death, and a 1915 WWI-related Pease cartoon clipped from a Newark, NJ newspaper. Fine. Item #E29145
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