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SMOKE FROM THIS ALTAR

LOUIS L'AMOUR'S FIRST BOOK

Smoke from this Altar

Lusk Publishing Company

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Copyright 1939

Book will state "FIRST EDITION" on copyright page

Book appeared in at least six different colors of cloth binding.

  1. Orange / black lettering
  2. Orange / gold lettering
  3. Light green / black lettering
  4. Dark green / gold lettering
  5. Dark Gray / black lettering
  6. Light Gray / black lettering

Contents

Out of the Ocean Depths Soundlessly Moving
Smoke From This Altar
Interlude: Hongkong Harbor
Words From a Wanderer
To Cleone: In Budapest
I'm a Stranger Here
Without This Land
Life
Biography in Stone
An Ember in the Dark
Nocturne
Wings Over Waves
A Handful of Stars
Winter
Secret Pass
Banked Fires
North Cape
To You, Jeannine
Decadence
Love Out of Season
After Tomorrow
Yacodhapura
Steppe
To Giordano Bruno
The Weary One
Hildebrand
Enchanted Mesas
My Three Friends
In an Old Temple
The Sea, Off Vanua Levu
If There is Beauty
Ship Across the Sky
McVey
I Came to Create
Lines to a Season
I Shall Go Back
Note: Many of these poems had previously appeared in other publications such as Shards, Versecraft, Kaleidograph, Prairie Wings, North Dakota Singing, The Tanager etc...

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Smoke from this Altar 1939 First Edition, orange binding

Below book is shown in the scarce original dustjacket

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Smoke from this Altar 1939 First Edition, in original dustjacket

This book was reissued in an expanded edition in 1990 see the SMOKE FROM THIS ALTAR (REVISED EDITION)