Leonard Cline's first book was a collection of poems published by the Poet Lore Company of Boston on September 21, 1914. The book had been contracted with the Poet Lore Company on March 9, 1914. Cline paid them $300 to publish the book, and thereafter he would be paid 40% of the gross proceeds received from the sale of the book.
Poems was dedicated to his wife, Mary Louise (Smurthwaite) Cline, known as Louise, whom he had married in October 1913. Their first child, a daughter named Mary Louise Cline (always known as Mary Louise), was born on September 6th, 1914.
The Poet Lore Company, and its associated Gorham Press, was then run by Richard Gorham Badger (1877-1937). It was mostly known for the magazine titled
Poet Lore, to which Cline also contributed in 1917-1919.
If
Poems was issued with a dust-wrapper, I have never seen it. Here is the simple yet elegant cover of the book.
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