Shade

by Frank Stanford

drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford 

First edition, signed.  Seattle WA:  Mill Mountain Press, 1975  

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Pale gray wraps have title in brown ink. 
• Wraps show some exposure, wear to head edge, a few marks to back cover, a small ding, edgewear.  Corners are a little softened.  See photos.  
• Spine has brown text and is darkened with firm ends.
• Perfect binding is strong.  
• Signed and inscribed on half-title page.  Ink transfer to verso of front cover.  See photos.
• Illustrations, line drawings, are bright and clear. 
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2025.1023

49 pages. 6 x 9.75 inches

Scarce signed copy of the fourth book by Arkansas poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978).  Pale gray wrappers with title stamped in brown, four illustrations in the text by Ginny Crouch Stanford.  Some wear to the wraps at head edge and toning to extremities and spine panel.  Interior, on tan stock, is unmarked.  Inscribed "For Linda, Frank Stanford" on the half-title page.  Condition is overall Very Good.

This collection of thirty poems came toward the middle of Stanford's brief career, and it carries the hallmarks of a maturing poetic voice.  No longer a novice writer, Stanford had come into his own by this point; his sense of rhythm and imagery brings the reader into intense contact with ideas of death, solitude, and angst. 

First edition.  Copyright page states "Second Edition," but this is the true first edition since there was no prior edition.  Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page.

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