A CHAPBOOK.
Vancouver, BC: 1922. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original brown wrappers titled and ruled in gilt on upper cover, stapled at spine. Printed in red and black throughout. 16 pp. Issued in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies of which 140 only were available for purchase by subscription, this is copy No. 160. This copy is signed by Dorothy Walsh on the half title leaf and a sheet bearing the signatures of Anderson, Murphy, Stevenson, Coupe and Bruun is affixed to the inner front cover. Covers irregularly faded, creases, some rusting to the staples; a very good copy. Uncommon. Item #313835
¶ The first collection of verse issued by a group of students (and one graduate) of The University of British Columbia.
Contributors:
Dorothy H. Walsh, "Kip" died summer, 1972, Cummington, Massachusetts.
Annie M. Anderson, Became Annie M. Angus, wife of Henry Angus, "possibly the moving spirit of the chapbook".
Geoffrey Bruun, B.A. UBS '24, retired to ithaca, NY.
Geoffrey Coupe,
Sallee Murphy, became Sally Creighton, UBC English Department. Also a broadcaster.
Alfred Rive
Lionel Stevenson, Professor of English at U. of Michigan, died at UBC while teaching Social Studies at UBC after retirement, author of DARWIN AMONG THE POETS (1932).
A photocopy with pencilled notes of Dorothy "Kip" Walsh's obituary (from the UBC Chronicle? 1973) is loosly laid in.
Price (CAD): $75.00