Buy this book on-line Original Poem with Envelope - "Comrades, The Season's Greetings from 'Trail's End in the Valley of the Rio Grande (with auguries from The Book)"
Original holiday greeting (poem) and envelope. Greeting is printed in red and green ink on light beige paper. Envelope is made of light beige paper and has a typed mailing address and a brown 1 1/2-cent Martha Washington stamp. No date, circa, 1938-1950s. Envelope postmarked in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Poem: 6" x 9." Envelope: 6 1/2" x 3 3/4." One page (one leaf printed on one side), complete. Greeting and envelope are very clean and intact except for light age toning, wrinkle on right edge of envelope, and two original horizontal fold lines on greeting. A Very Good copy. A holiday greeting with original envelope it came in. The greeting is in the form of a poem with "auguries" (prophetic excerpts) from the Bible. Greeting has the printed "signature" of Hermon P. Williams. The poem may be an original by Williams, who is writing from "Trail's End," or may be a reprint of a pre-existing poem from a work titled, "Trail's End." Hermon P. Williams (1872-1958) is described on the greeting as "Chaplain United States War Veterans, Department of New Mexico; late Chaplain 51st Iowa, United States Volunteer Infantry.". Ephemera. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: No Binding Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Original Poem with Envelope - "Comrades, The Season's Greetings from 'Trail's End in the Valley of the Rio Grande (with auguries from The Book)". Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, livres d'occasion, out-of-print books, libri rari and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |