Playing Happy and Other Poems
Hutchinson, Ks. 1910. [20]pp. Narrow octavo. Original orange printed card covers, stapled. Some light wear and soiling, intentional holes punched in spine edge. Small ink stamp on versos of title page and final leaf. Internally clean. Very good. Item #2194
Short volume of poetry published in a small town in central Kansas. The author wrote several collections, this one focused primarily on lost love. The titular poem, "Playing Happy," enacts a "pretend" evening with a former lover: "I piled to hand the books we love the best, / The two old glasses filled with wine -- to yours / I touched my lips to mark where you should drink-- / Then read aloud, those well marked passages, / That served as messages from heart to heart, / And coaxed our new born love to consciousness." A rare work -- we find only an electronic record in OCLC, though the digitized version is a copyright copy from the Library of Congress (this being the second of two such).
Price: $550.00