Author: SCHOTTLAND, Leo E.
Title: Lone Little Sparrow in a Prickly Pine and Other Poems
Description: Garden City, NY, Basin Publishing Co, 1986. Paperback. Illustrations by Linda Justiniano. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Likely sole printing of this verse gathering, tight and handsome -- boldly inscribed and signed by the poet in blue ballpoint on the title: "for / my good friend / Arnold Gates / & / Georgia / the best of christmases / Leo Schottland / 12/86." ARNOLD F. GATES (1914-93) was a noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar, as well as a Long Island friend and neighbor of Schottland -- and, as owner of Basin Publishing, the publisher of this book. Nice presentation copy. Copyright page bears ISBN number inked in by Gates. .

Keywords: Poetry


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