Author: PERRIGO,Roberta
Title: Milltown Days and Nights
Description: Philadelphia, Dorrance & Company, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. 18pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket wear. A tight, handsome first edition of this slim poetry collection from this Mexican-American, who boldly inscribes and signs the front flyleaf in blue ballpoint: "Roberta Perrigo / to / Alice Maus / from / Bess G. Bissell / Oct 10, 1973." Bissell (b. 1877) was an Iowa writer who published two poetry collections and co-edited a 1930s literary periodical; she was related to Dubuque author Richard Bissell of "The Pajama Game" fame. .

Keywords: Poetry


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