Author: HOLT, SID (EDITOR); LYON, GEORGE W. (EDITOR)
Title: A Toast to Baldy Red : Back Porch Ballads and Parlour Poems
Description: Edmonton, AB, Canada: NeWest Publishers, Limited, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0920897940. 164 pages. Bibliography. "As more Albertans leave the land and become part of urban society these poems provide us with a window to the past when land and weather dominated our lives." - from back cover. "These are the folk songs and poems of 'Next Year Country'. The rural Albertans who wrote them were sometimes expired, sometimes banal and sometimes just plain plagiaristic but the wind blows through every line." - Ian Tyson. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; CANADIAN POETRY A Toast to Baldy Red : Back Porch Ballads and Parlour Poems. Fine .

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