Author: SCHOTTLAND, Leo E.
Title: Summer Songs and Other Poems
Description: Garden City, NY, Basin Publishing Co, 1983. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. 42pp. Near fine. Presumably sole printing of this small verse gathering, tight and nice -- and boldly inscribed and signed by the poet in blue ballpoint on the inside front wrapper: "for / my friend Arnold Gates / Historian & dreamer / and like myself -- / Lincoln Laser! / Leo Schottland / 2/83." ARNOLD F. GATES (1914-93) was a noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar, as well as a Long Island friend and neighbor of Schottland -- he also owned Basin Publishing, the publisher of this book. Nice presentation copy. .

Keywords: Poetry


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