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1922 A Long Spoon and the Devil Being Fish Quaint and Queer From the Spoon River The Property of Edgar Lee Masters
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Scarce, Signed
The scarce first edition of the work.
Signed and inscribed by Edgard Lee Masters to the front free endpaper.
In quarter cloth binding, with paper boards.
Written by Henry Savage, as a parody of the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, a 1915 collection of short free verse poems in which they collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town American life.
This parodical volume includes poems such as Mrs. Wiggs, Robert Browning, Palmerston Pots, Amelia Perkins, and many more.
Condition
In quarter cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Shelf wear to extremities, most significant to the head and tail of the spine. Offsetting to endpapers, with ink inscription to front free endpaper by Edgar Lee Masters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean
Very Good
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