A Book of Verses, Chosen by “Ichabod”
[Brattleboro, Vermont]: Privately Printed for Stephen Daye Press, 1940. Wraps. [POETRY] [PRIVATE PRESS] [LIMITED EDITION]. Manufactured in the United States of America by the Vermont Printing Company, Brattleboro, Vermont.
One of 300 copies. 8vo (8” x 5 3/8”); 30pp; stiff cream-colored wrapper, untrimmed fore-edge; vignette of a crane on title page; many small vignettes between the poems; silver sprinkled red dust jacket, lettering down the left side of the front on a silver banner; light spine chipping, glue burn to inside wrapper and free endpapers; very good plus. Very good +. Item #1571
An anthology of short poems, many humorous and some absurd, collected by the author for a small audience of three hundred. Ephraim Hitchcock Crane (1876-1944) was an alumnus of Dartmouth, a newspaperman, and publisher of Dartmouth’s Alumni magazine. One of the short poems collected in this volume reads as follows: Compensation. The Devil sends the wicked wind / That blows our skirts so high; / Bug God is just, and sends the dust, / That gets in the bad man’s eye.
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