A Singing Reed [inscribed & signed]
Chicago: Alderbrink Press, Ralph Fletcher Seymour Pub. 1963. Hardcover. 64p., frontis-portrait of the poet by Diego Rivera, personal inscription signed by the poet dated Christmas 1963, very good first edition in blue cloth boards with paper title label on front cover.
Italian American immigrant poet from Chicago who ran his own publishing company for decades and used forgeries to promote himself. He was living at Lewis College illegally until 1966 when he was caught. He died in 1967. Seymour was a Chicago artist and publisher who published works by Frank Lloyd Wright and was involved with L. Frank Baum.
Cat.No: 273360
Price: $25.00
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