Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley / Nature Poems Selected by Josette Frank (Signed)
New York: Dial Books, 1990.
Thomas Locker. First Edition. Hardcover.
First Printing. Signed by Thomas Locker on half-title.
Thirteen poems, one for each month of the year and one for the New Year, that celebrate nature. Poets include William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Rachel Field, John Updike, Tony Johnston, Langston Hughes, N. M. Bodecker, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charlotte Zolotow, Barbara Kunz Loots, Melville Cane, and Mary Carolyn Davies. Each poem has a full-page full color illustration by Thomas Locker.
Item #902003ISBN: 0803708106
10-3/4 x 8-5/8", quarter blue cloth, blue paper over boards, brick-colored endpapers, unpaginated, 13 full-page full-color plates by Thomas Locker in the text, color frontispiece.
Generally clean and crisp, a little sun-fading to extreme edges of blue cloth and boards, near fine copy in very good dust wrapper with three edge-tears (1-3/8", 3/4", and 1/4" tear) and a bit of scraping to rear panel, in protective mylar.
Price: $40.00