THE NET AND THE SWOR: poems.
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1953. Tan cloth. 56 pp. Spine gilt a little dulled, as usual; light yellowing to inner margins of endpapers; else fine in fine jacket. Le Pan's second book, it won him his first (of two) Governor-General's Awards. "As no other Canadian has done, Le Pan in this book has given us in a mighty paradox the utter meaninglessness of war and the indestructible meaning of the intrinsically human." - Malcom Ross. LePan "came out" late in life. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced. ; Signed by Author