VERSE - Adelaide Crapsey, 1st 1915 - INVENTOR CINQUAIN FORM OF POETRY POEMS ELVES & GNOMES SIGNED BY AUGUST DERLETH —

SIGNED BY AUGUST DERLETH — THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD — By H

return home on the track of Columbus

Publisher: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge

plus 14 pages of Advertisements b/w both volumes

VERSE - Adelaide Crapsey, 1st 1915 - INVENTOR CINQUAIN FORM OF POETRY POEMS ELVES & GNOMES SIGNED BY AUGUST DERLETH —VERSE Book Details + Condition: The Manas Press (Rochester, NY). First Edition, 1915. Hardcover. 95 pages. Measures 6. 5" x 5". Adelaide Crapsey is best remembered as the inventor of the cinquain form and as a poet whose compressed lyrics "are a remarkable testament of a spirit 'flashing unquenched defiance to the stars,'" as quoted in Boston Transcript. Though her mature work was published posthumously due to her untimely death at the age of 36,