first edition Hardcover
1979 · Francestown
by Bussey, Elmira
Francestown: The Golden Quill Press, 1979. Hardcover. 80p., very good first edition in cloth boards, gilt and unclipped dj. Vanity press publication of poetry by a 91-year-old Massachusetts poet, "much of it written during the 1970's when she was an active participant in Harold Bond's poetry workshop at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education." Bussey spent earlier years "as an illustrator for a Boston music publisher (Inventory #: 117085)