Macintyre

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1975 One of about forty copies. "Printed on an 1853 Albion hand press by Ward Ritchie in his first experiment with nature printing." . Green printed wrappers, stitched at spine, with leaf print and title to front wrapper, which exhibits slight creasing at edges. . Octavo. Illustrated with black and white leaf prints super-imposed over variously colored block backgrounds. Laguna Verde Imprenta colophon. Light toning to wrappers' edges. Presentation copy, inscribed to Jake Zeitlin from Ward Ritchie in the month of publication. A very good copy. From Ritchie's introduction: "Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre was a lyric poet. He was a brilliant man. Words were his life. Whether he was talking or writing, they came forth clear, incisive and picturesque. He loved his stage, on which he always managed to be the principal character. As a professor of English Literature at Occidental College, UCLA and Berkeley he influenced several generations of students…I recently found these poems of MacIntyre's buried in correspondence four decades now past, to be here printed many years after his death." MacIntyre (d. 1967) is primarily remembered for his translations of Baudelaire, Verlaine, George, Goethe, and Rilke.