Author: FARRAN, Don Title: Ballad of the Silver Ring
Description: Muscatine, IA, The Prairie Press, 1935. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with paper spine label. 32pp. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, with spine lightly sunned -- else tight and internally fine. Handsome first edition, with colophon at rear noting limitation of 195 numbered copies (this #127). Boldly signed by Farran in black ink on half-title page. Laid in is a nice 16mo six-page promotional leaflet, "Comment Upon the Ballad of the Silver Ring," featuring blurbs from such writers as Hamlin Garland, Stephen Vincent Benét and Frank Luther Mott. Farran (1902-86) was a naval commander in the Korean War but is best known as the author of numerous poems, plays and short stories. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 47954
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