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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Brown embossed cloth boards. Light wear to covers. Lacking front free endpaper, else very good. Erased penciled price in upper corner of flyleaf, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Typeset by the author. 68 illustrations (from photographs and drawings), including 15 illustrations by Addison Johnson, additional vignette line drawings, and a frontispiece portrait of the author. xxi, (22)-200 pages. A book of verse by William Walter Shaw (1861-1951), a retired advertising-man and traveling salesman. He was the son of the Coshocton, Ohio, pioneer Barzilla Shaw. William lived and worked in Coshocton until about 1916, when he moved to New York City and became involved in the printing business. After a decade in NYC, he retired to Los Angeles and published Reveries of a Drummer in December 1926. A handful of the poems are written from the perspective of a traveling salesman or commercial traveler, who were at the time known as ''drummers,'' out to ''drum-up'' business. Includes one poem-tale about a Coshocton baseball game played by the Coshocton Braves (perhaps modeled after the Coshocton High School Redskins). There is also a short ode to Paul Laurence Dunbar. Includes 15 illustrations by the Southern California artist Addison Johnson (1892-1986), drawn by him in the period 1917-1918.