Product Description
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, (1923).
, (1923).
Very good.
- Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide.
Hardcover, handsomely rebound in brown cloth backed with a brown calf spine, with gilt rules and a gilt-titled red leather label on the spine.
The original front cover is laid in.
140 & [1] pages, with pictorial endpapers.
A newspaper clipping with a portrait of the author is tipped in on the first blank leaf and there is a tiny tear to the front edge of the second blank leaf.
Near fine.
First edition.
Inscribed & signed by E.
J.
Pratt on the second blank leaf, "To Mrs.
Rackham a little remembrance of her hospitality, E.
J.
Pratt".
Two poems "The Frost Over-Night" and "The Decision (To Langford Rowell", each printed on white stock, are tipped-in on pages 76 and 109 respectively and there are a few pencil markings.
The Canadian poet Edwin John Dove Pratt (1882-1964) wrote as "E.
J.
Pratt".
He was originally from Newfoundland though lived most of his life in Toronto.
Pratt graduated from Newfoundland Methodist College and studied psychology and theology at Victoria College and the University of Toronto.
Ordained as a minister, he lectured in psychology at the University of Toronto.
Pelham Edgar invited him to switch to the university's English Faculty, becoming a Senior Professor by 1938.
He first published "A Poem on the May Examinations in 1909 and, in 1917, a longer poem "Rachel: A Sea Story of Newfoundland".
In 1923, Pratt published his first commercial poetry collection "Newfoundland Verse" in which "A Fragment of a Story", the only portion of his verse drama "Clay" was published (Pratt having burned his own manuscript), and his conclusion to his earlier poem "Rachel".
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