Second Spring by Purdy Alfred (1 results)

Condition: very good. 1st edition, 1/100 signed. 6pp. Quarto. Black cloth binding with boards covered in red and black cloth with a marbelled pattern. White label pastedown on front cover with title and author. Light wear to edges of boards and corners. Black endpapers. Clean, tight text block with some light wear on the outer edge of text block. A lovely copy. very good Signed by the author on the last page and marked as 92/100 signed by his. This is a book of poetry by one of the most popular and important Canadian poets of the 20th century. Purdy's writing career spanned more than fifty years. His works include over thirty books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence. He has been called the nation's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture.".