Ink poem and illustration on card

by Clarence Rowe, Mary Louise Arrington

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

n.p : 1920. Pen illustration of a man playing bagpipes along a creek, accompanied by a poem; 12.5 x 9 ; produced on stiff card; some foxing, a couple water stains, good. The poem, self-described as a rotten rhyme appears to have been produced off the cuff to celebrate a friend named Hartley's birthday on June 19th, 1920. It appears from the handwriting that Arrington provided the poem and Rowe the illustration. Per his NYT obituary, Rowe was a professional artist, and seems to have mostly

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