Description
Just Folks, by Edgar A. Guest. RARE, Scarce Antique Poetry Book. 1917. FINE condition. This book is in FINE condition. Minor age coloring to pages due to its' publishing and printing in 1917, otherwise cover/binding/pages/etc are clean clear crisp and strong. All edges in strong gilt. No dust jacket, NA. 192 pages. FIRST PRINTING. Reilly and Britton. Chicago. Binding tight, like new, tooled black leather with gold raised medallion on front cover. Gold print, with gold edges of paper also in gold. Notice, this front cover as scarce/rare/unique to those available for sale. This is a true first edition. Measurements; 6.75" x 4.5" Subjects; American poetry, poetry, Guest, rare poetry book, Americana, Guest as the "People's Poet", Detroit poet, optimistic poetry, optimism About Guest; After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades. From his first published work in the Detroit Free Press until his death in 1959, Guest penned some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more than 20 books, including A Heap o' Livin' (1916) and Just Folks (1923–1957). Guest was made Poet Laureate of Michigan, the only poet to have been awarded the title. Fun fact; A favorite poet of Edith Bunker from the TV show All in the Family. She quotes him in a few episodes including "Prisoner in the House", first broadcast on 4 January 1975.
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