The Rest of the Road by Don Blanding FLAT SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1937 • Dodd Mead

The Rest of the Road written and illustrated by Don Blanding 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1937] DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

Front flyleaf has been flat signed and inscribed "Aloha" by author Don Blanding 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket has some worn / chipped edges; small sealed tear on front.  Overall stunning however, crisp, clean and vibrant.  Now housed in a new custom-fit jacket protector.

Book itself is excellent with just a touch of fading to cloth at top of spine. Reads as new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

DON BLANDING, the "poet laureate of Hawaii's, most joyous book since VAGABOND's HOUSE, these new poems promise also to be his most popular. From the vantage point of the ""Half-Way House," he turns a remembering eye over the roads he has followed before, and then looks forward with eager anticipation to the mysterious, fascinating Rest of the Road.

The book takes the reader to far places of the earth, and far places of the imagination, on a colorful, exotic voyage.  Both the illustrations and verses surpass any of Don Blanding's previous work. One long poem, "The Cruise of the Spun-Glass Ship,"' bids fair to rival the popularity of "Vagabond's House" itself.

How long? How far? How hard? How fine?  How heavy or light the load?If it's half as good as the half I've known Here's Hail!... to the rest of the road!

Thus sings Don Blanding ... a gallant answer to the challenge of the years.