The Donner Party
1972, First Edition. George Braziller, New York. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 254 pages; Genre: Poetry -- Narrative poetry -- Modern American poetry -- Epic poetry. The Donner Party is the story of a wagon train, led by George Donner, which set out from Springfield, Illinois, in 1846, headed for California. George Keithley’s restrained and vivid narrative poem is a harrowing portrait of a group that was pushed to extreme measures in order to survive. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and has been adapted as a play and an opera. Item #27263
ISBN: 0807606383
Price: €10.95