OVERTURE
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Ryerson, 1945. Yellow boards. pp (8), 79. Slight yellowing to page edges, just a little leaned, short Xmas, 1945, ink gift inscription at front, faint damp spot to lower inner corners of covers, else a near fine, jacketless copy. Scott was an important Canadian modernist poet, constitutional lawyer, and one of the founders of the C.C.F. This was his first separate book. Many of the poems are sharply critical of the war-mongers and profiteers. ; Octavo