Hawk's Way.

New York, NY The League to Support Poetry, 1941. Hardcover First Edition [1941], unstated. First Edition [1941], unstated, in accordance with TLTSP's standard practice. Very Good+: shows very light wear to the extremities, with a little scuffing at the head of the backstrip; the mildest rubbing and very faint soiling to the blue cloth-covered boards. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. No longer pristine, but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 53 pages. Hardback: Royal Blue Cloth with Pastedown Titles at the Front Panel and Backstrip. Presents 32 poems including "Salute to Norway". Ted Olson (1899-1981) Theodore B. Olson, born in Laramie, Wyoming, graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1920. During World War II, he served in the Office of War Information. He later worked for the State Department, and was stationed at Oslo, Athens, and Reykjavik. Olson was also a journalist, and wrote for the New York Herald-Tribune and other newspapers. Olson's book A Stranger and Afraid won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and was published by Yale University Press in 1928. He published a second book of poetry, Hawk's Way, (1941), as well as a childhood memoir, Ranch on the Laramie (1973) about growing up on a farm/ranch 20 miles west of Laramie in the years before mechanization.