[Item #44468] Songs of the Desert [Limited Edition, Signed]. J. William LLOYD.

Songs of the Desert [Limited Edition, Signed]

Westfield, NJ: The Lloyd Group, Authors & Publishers, [1905]. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 85. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's brown card wrappers printed in red and black, French flaps; 26pp. Signed by the author on front flap below colophon.

Attractively printed book of poems by the individual anarchist, composed in 1903 at Point Eternity, Grand Canyon, during a trip to Sacaton, Arizona, where Lloyd compiled a collection of legends from the Pima people. This latter work, published as "Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights" (1911), "is considered by experts to be one of the most successful efforts to record Indian legends" (cf. Mary G. Boyer, "Arizona in Literature" (1971), p. [515]).

Price: $250.00

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