"Small Town and Other American Poems" by John Ransom Lewis. 1976 The University Press of Washington, D.C. Apparent first edition - no edition or printing detail on the copyright page. ISBN 0874190442. 76 pages! Hardcover with dust jacket.
Dr. John Ransom Lewis, Jr. (1917-97), a plastic surgeon, was poet laureate of Georgia from 1974 until his death. This collection of his most American poems was released during the US bicentennial year.
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