A Midsummer Memory
1910, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Author
Richard Burton
Publisher
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
Printing Details
First edition. Limited to 500 copies (this one is unnumbered). Hardback, cloth spine with paper covered boards, printed titling to spine and upper board. Page edges untrimmed. 21 × 13cm, 41pp.
Not signed but this copy with the bookplate of James Mitchell Stewart, M.D., a minor American poet
A long elegiac poem commemorating the poet Arthur Upson (1877–1908) who drowned after falling from his boat in Lake Bemidji, Minnesota.
Condition
A good copy, with light wear to boards.
Price
£15.00
