FISHER, VARDIS — Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna

New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0918522609. This is the author first book. Laid-in is a postcard Signed by the Author - The book itself is not signed. The book is in Very Good- condition and lacks the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine joints, and edges of the book covers have heavy rubbing. The bottom front spine joint has cracking. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but there is some light toning to the edges. The endpapers have more noticeable toning. There is some light off-setting to the text pages. "Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 – July 9, 1968) was a writer best known for his popular historical novels of the Old West.....Fisher was, perhaps, the most significant twentieth century novelist who was both a native and longtime resident of Idaho. He chafed at being compared with such better-known writers associated with the state as Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. When appointed to head the Idaho branch of the Federal Writers Project under the WPA, Fisher quipped that he had been chosen because there were only three writers in Idaho, and he was the only one who was unemployed. Frederick Manfred, who was among Fisher's staunchest literary champions, declared that Dark Bridwell (1931) was Fisher's best novel and that Hemingway never wrote anything so good." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Very Good- .