first edition Hardcover
1925 · New York
by Kilmer, Annie Kilburn, Mother of Sergeant Joyce Kilmer
New York: Frye Publishing Co, 1925. Hardcover. 153p., larded with several dozen b&w photographic plates on inserted coated stock, first edition red cloth boards gilt-titled. Mildly edgeworn along most extremities, most noticibly along front joint, with slight bubbling of rear cover cloth, front pastedown bears a neat ownership signature else perfectly clean, unmarked and sound, a good copy. Author's own poem at terminus shows where the sergeant came from: trees, technique, not great but no let-down. (Inventory #: 228932)