WINNOWED GRASSES

Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1892. Small octavo. Gilt decorated olive cloth. Portrait. Ownership stamp roughly effaced from one lower margin, otherwise very good and bright. Denoted the "third edition" of the Sullivan, Indiana, druggist and poet's first book, published in the same year as the first edition. OCLC locates an edition under the Bowen-Merrill imprint, but only three copies of this edition, LC and two in Indiana. Notable for the poem, "A Texas Preacher," wherein the subject and his flock find Hell a more convivial place than the alternative. (Inventory #: WRCLIT78276)