DON BLANDING
"Let Us Dream"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1933
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 120 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
To all who walk alone I dedicate this book.
Acknowledgement is made to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for use
of a number of poems in the "Bubbles from Hawaiian Surf" group.
To Stephen Royce of the Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California for use of California
Vignettes.
To James Neill Northe of Silhouettes, and Warp and Woof, Ontario, California
for use of poems Let Us Dream, Tropic Night, Last Hour, Matu Va, The Dark Thorn
Flower, Lone Wolf Trail and others.
To Los Angeles Saturday Night for use of poem Drum.
To Movie Mirror for use of Hollywood Group, Hollywood Premiere, Character
Woman, Vampire, Movie Villain, and Extra Girl.
To Moreland Stafford, Mr. and Mrs. Percy J. Benbough, Legler Benbough for Descanso.
Contents:
| Let Us Dream A Handful of Memories The Restless Ones Part Two Part Three Part Four Matu Va Figurehead From an Old Ship Directions for the Disposal of a Vagabond's Ashes Lone Wolf Trail Kiltie, A Scottish Terrier Mary Garden Drum Medusa Bluebeard Speaks to his 'Steenth Wife Stilled Music First Night in Eden Black Leopards Dream in Blue Reply to the Advice of a Pompous Ass Last Hour Dark Thorn Flower Through Different Eyes |
Cruel Beauty Youth, You Are Dead? Firefly The Shining Robe Geisha Ye Oldene Goldene Dragone Shoppe I Believe... Hollywood Première Character Woman Movie Villain Vampire Extra Girl Tinsel Commuters The Picture Bridge Gold Rush Mount Wilson Observatory Red Rock Cañon Eucalyptus Trees Sunrise on Mount Whitney Torrey Pines Bathing Cove, La Jolla Old Baldy, with Lupines Ghost-Town |
Death Valley Yucca Flowers in the Mojave Desert Smoke Trees, Coachella Desert Hawaiian Music Prayer of the Drifting Cocoanut Spring Fire, Honolulu Blood on Orchids, Waikiki Red Star, at Kailua Tropic Night Gold Hoarders, Take Notice To One Whom I Call Awa Puhi Morning, In a Honolulu Garden Tryst For Rent Blue Belle Blues Carlsbad Caverns The Land of Cruel Beauty A Dreamer Walks Prairie Days My Kind of Mind The Amateur Botanist Four Roads |
Full Page Illustrations:
| Let Us Dream Dedication Matu Va Thais |
Bluebirds 'Steenth Wife Dream in Blue Dark Thorn Flower Geisha |
Star Light Bubbles from Hawaiian Surf Carlsbad Caverns That's All |
Notes:
Let Us Dream was written for Laura Levering.
Matu Va was written for Ruth St. Denis.
Lone Wolf Trail and Cruel Beauty were written for Lorraine T. Stevens.
Kiltie, A Scottish Terrier was written for Moreland Stafford.
Drum first appeared in Los Angeles Saturday Night, June 3, 1933, page 5.
Stilled Music was written for friend Hubbard Hutchinson after his death.
Tinsel was written for G.D.B.S.
Tryst was written for Hado.
Four Roads was written for John S. Mayfield, from Bend, Oregon.
The Picture Bridge are poems that accompany paintings by Frank M. Moore.
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