The Ballad of De Soto

New York: U.S. Works Progress Administration / New Reading Materials Program, Board of Education, City of New York, 1938.

Price: $1,250.00

Softcover. First edition. Illustrated by Albert Kostin. Small quarto. 15pp. Stapled wrappers. Acidic paper has browned with some short edge tears, wrappers a bit tender at the spine with a bit of toning and foxing and a small inked dot on the cover, an about very good copy of a fragile and scarce publication.

An early poem by Parker Tyler, noted film critic, who wrote one of the first books dealing with homosexuality and film, *Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality and Film* (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972). Kostin was a notable member of the New York School. *OCLC* locates only five copies.


Item #528051

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Item #528051 The Ballad of De Soto. Parker TYLER.