Smith, William Jay

THE TRAVELER'S TREE; New and Selected Poems

New York: Persea, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 167 pp. Presentation copy signed in full by the poet to actress Ruth Ford. Near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly toned, else fine dust jacket (protected in removable mylar covers). Near fine / very good +. Item #7487

Ruth Ford had ties to the movie, the theater and the literary crowd holding a salon in her apartments at The Dakota, where her brother poet Charles Henri Ford also lived; she was the wife of actor Zachary Scott, and a close friend from her time in Mississippi with William Faulkner.

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