Alameda City Centennial Edition 1872-1972; First Anthology of Poetry and Drawings: Alameda Poets

Alameda, CA: Alameda Poets, 1972. Limited edition. Octavo in black and white pictorial wrappers; 1 volume (unpaged); illus., music; 22 cm. Very good(+) copy. Wrappers are worn around the edges and creased at the spine joints; light sunning and soil to wrappers; else tight copy; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; . Paperback.

In English. Scarce. This copy belonged to Poet Laureate of Alameda, Mary Rudge; This copy has several autographs by the various authors and artists on title pages and adjacent to respective poems: Mary Rudge, Ray Weirmack, Mary Collins, Carole Holtz, Eugenie Daniels, Joyce McMillen, Nanying Stella Wong, Bernard Chalip, Lily Abraham, Jane Bonnot, Jessie L. James, Rachel Crosby, Roger Paine, J. A. Mills, Ann Scott, Sharon Arima, Caroline Rudge, Diane Malik, Laura Paine (the subject of one of Roger Paine's pomes); Frances Rasmussen, Robin Ellen Rudge, Star Rudge, Alice Grace Chalip.