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Down East: Poems by Wilbert Snow

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Title: Down East: Poems by Wilbert Snow
Author: Wilbert Snow
Publisher: Gotham House, Inc., New York
Published: 1932
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 97
Catalogs: Poetry, New England, Maine
Description: Signed by author on flyleaf, first edition. Original green cloth binding with black text on spine. Dustjacket torn at top front, and large piece torn from lower back. Cloth shows some staining and fading; jacket is tanned. Contains small bookplate of David R. Clark at Wesleyan College. Jacket shows original price inside flap. Frontispiece is a woodcut of Spruce Head, Maine. Pages are unmarked and have deckled fore-edges. The book is divided into three sections, Narratives, Lyrics, and Sonnets. Poems include Etching, The Hungry Shark, Captain George, Incident of the Coast, January Thaw, Zeb Kinney on Feminism, Address to a Thicket, The Flood, The Storm, Tide Cycle, A Maine Winter's Night, Verses Written After Reading Attacks on New England, November Corn Field, Invitation to Connecticut, Groundswell, Valediction, and many more. Charles Wilbert "Bill" Snow (1884-1977) was born on Whitehead Island, Maine, and was the author of Maine Coast and The Inner Harbor. He served as the 75th Governor of Connecticut. Hardcover, good condition. 97 pages, octavo.