Poems Old and New by Mai Bailey Tull by Tull, Mau Bailey, 1880-1968

[West Hartford, Conn., American School for the Deaf, 1967]. Soft Cover. [vii], 32 p., illus., 20.5 cm. The Mississippi poetess, writer of the ever popular 1915 song "You'll Never Reach Glory in an Automobile" (she hadn't seen later driving fatalities). "Printing has a long history as an occupation where deaf and hard of hearing people have excelled. Perhaps because they were not bothered by the extremely noisy printing presses of the past, deaf people concentrated in this field of employment." No copy of this unusual book found in WorldCat. Stock#47627. Vg / soft cover.