Spoon River anthology
By: by Webster Ford [pseud.].
Published: 1914
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Notes: Inscribed: These ... installments had been saved by Haniel Long, after whose death his son Anton gave them to me. Witter Bynner [and] Presented by W B to The Houghton Library - 12/18/61.

Pages containing the first appearance of these poems, detached from Reedy's Mirror beginning with the issue for May 29, 1914. Included here are the [First]-Eleventh, Fifteenth-Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth & Twenty-fifth garlands; also 3 unnumbered installments with first lines "At first I suspected something", "Not, where the stairway turns in the dark", and "After you have enriched your soul", the last piece having sections of text excised. Also present are p.[1]-2 of the Nov. 20, 1914 issue of the periodical, containing "The writer of Spoon River, by William Marian Reedy", and the wrappers to the Aug. 14, 1914 issue.

Loose leaves; in cloth case.