Condition Continued: And with the exception of the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere.
I have always had the dust jacket in a fitted protective cover. The jacket is in very solid shape. However, the front cover is sunned to more of a tan than the original green. There is also some very light soiling. The spine is also toned to a tan, as are parts of the rear cover. The green flaps don't have any print. They are also clipped at all four corners.
The Broadway Press, Buffalo, New York, 1935. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Apparent first edition (NAP). Not only was Wilson MacDonald a very popular Canadian poet, he was a very good son. The signed inscription on the half-title page reads: 'May the songs in this book help to solve the riddles of life. Wilson MacDonald.' And below that: 'To Mother, Christmas, 1935.'
'In the 1920s MacDonald was so popular that, according to writer John Robert Colombo, 'his fame eclipsed that of Robert Service and Pauline Johnson.' '