Item #006756 The Rocking Chair, and Other Poems. A. M. Klein.

The Rocking Chair, and Other Poems

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Very Good. Item #006756

SIGNED FIRST EDITION, dated January 16, 1950. Original yellow paper boards. 56 pp. Minor rubbing to spine head. Ownership inscription to ffep. Bookseller ticket of Wendell Holmes Ltd, London and St. Thomas, to foot of front pastedown. Dust jacket is worn and stained to spine, some soiling and bumping to extremities. "These poems are attempts at an interpretation of the province of Quebec beside which those of the most othe English writers appear feeble and pale. In the patriarchal, traditional, and ecclesiastic entity which is French Canada, Klein has discovered a world which his Jewish sensibility readily understands and appreciates." - A.J.M. Smith, from front flap.

Price: $350.00

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