signed first edition Softcover
1943 · (No place - New York?)
by CHUMBLY, Harold A. (Kenneth Patchen)
(No place - New York?): The Author, 1943. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Owner label on the front fly, the text has pulled away from the wrappers, thus good only. Nicely Inscribed by the author. The book is accompanied by three manuscript poems by Chumbly: 1] a small, unsigned poem about Kenneth Patchen affixed to the inside of the front cover, 2] an approximately 15-line poem in pencil, Signed by Chumly, celebrating Patchen's *Journal of Albion Moonlight*, written on the verso of a 1945 memo about The National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission, on which Kenneth Patchen has made some notes - mostly addresses and phone numbers, and 3] a 12-line poem in ink entitled "Kitty," Signed and dated by the poet in 1944. On the verso appears more notes by Kenneth Patchen, again names and addresses. The recipient of the book was a close friend of Patchen's and one imagines the recipient may have introduced the two poets. A scarce volume of pre-Beat poetry, the author's first. *OCLC* locates only five copies. (Inventory #: 88186)