Poetry Book by Lewis J. Cist

Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems

Lewis J. Cist

A First Edition in Very Good- condition with cocked spine, bumped corners, rubbed covers, front hinge starting, soiled pages, bookplate of Louis S. Hardy to front pastedown, previous owners' names and addresses to front pastedown and front flyleaf. Illus. Original decorative green cloth, gilt bouquet to front board. Newspaper and magazine clippings laid in.

Cist contributed poetry to the Western Monthly Review and The Hesperian before he went into banking in 1850. Thomson 226; Ex-Libris.

         

Price: $200.00

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I was at my family's house in Lexington, KY talking with a cousin of mine. He showed me the old Cist family photo album. At the back of the book was this gentleman playing a guitar, smiling and singing. He was an middle-aged African- American. Could this be the same gentleman that Lewis J. Cist was writing about in his Collection of Fugitive Poems. Did the unnamed African- American in the photo really wrote the book and let Cist put his name on it?  I believe there is a story here. I am going to keep you posted. I have placed on the scanning agenda to download the Cist family photo album.