[Rarebooks] FS: Provincetown lit mag, signed by Harry Kemp

Bob Petrilla petrillabooks at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 09:52:00 EDT 2017


Massachusetts, Provincetown / Harry Kemp.  PROVINCETOWN TIDEWAYS: A
Miscellany, Volume 1, Number 2 [signed]. Provincetown, MA:  Provincetown
Publishers, (1947).  First Edition. 64pp.  This issue is devoted mainly to
Harry Kemp's reminiscences, "Poet's Pilgrimage."  Also present are: Come to
Provincetown (2pp); a poem by Donald Walters (1p); a poem by Jack Sprague
(2pp); 8pp promoting Provincetown and the local real estate.  Bound in
textured tan wrappers, printed in black and green.  8.25" x 6" Very Good
conditionl

Signed boldly on the title-page by Harry Kemp (1993-1960), poet and tramp,
who favored Greenwich Village and the sand dunes of outer Cape Cod where he
lived in a shack for some 40 years.  For his signature, he liked to use
black ink and a seagull feather, as evidenced here.  $200.00

Postpaid in US.  Uusual trade terms.



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