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Lovely collectible books & Marylandia - $7 (StationNorthBooks)
34 e. Lanvale
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Lawrence E. Birdsall
Published by Gollifox Press, 1931
Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED, with an original poem by the author on front endpaper: "A little nonsense, so they say,/ Will brighten up the darkest day; / And so, in case you're feeling blue, / I hand this little book to you. / Oh, not because it's quite your style/ But just in hopes 'twill make you smile / At it, (or me; 'twill be OK / If it should drive your blues away,) / and also, 'cause like other men / you like some nonsense, now and then. ...L.C. Birdsall, 9/18/1931." Scarce. Not paginated. Over 60 pages of verse, with shaped poems and playful verse and orig. woodcuts on every page. Pages on heavy stock, signatures of 12 pps: white, light green, light yellow, salmon, and gray, with dark green endpapers. Very good black cloth and bright color pictorial cloth showing colorful farmers digging (front cover) and going to market (back cover) illus. front cover hardcover. Edgewear at corners, in no D'jacket . Text clean and tight. . First ed. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A. B. Weaver, Jr., with color illus. on every page. "Privately Printed, 1931" with Gollifox Press Yellow Penguin colophon (Phila?).