SHADE

by Frank Stanford, Ginny Crouch Stanford, poems, illustrations

$1,850 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First Edition. The Arkansas poet's scarce fourth book, one of seven titles he would release through the Mill Mountain Press prior to his suicide in 1978 at the age of 29. A collection of 30 poems, with four illustrations by artist Ginny Crouch Stanford throughout the text. Copyright page states Limited Edition, Second Edition, though this is in fact the First - almost certainly a bit of

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