Accession number
PML 196160
Published
Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, ©1942.
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2015.
Notes
With portraits of thirty of the poets (chiefly photographic) reproduced on pp. 163-70.
Library's copy is from the collection of the book's printer, Walter Emerson, and is an out-of-series variant of the special signed edition, which comprised 26 lettered and 33 contributors' copies; PML copy includes the added leaves and 32 contributors' signatures and is specially bound in half beige cloth with marbled boards, but lacks the special edition statement on the title-page verso (only the copyright notice), the green paper spine label, and the colophon identifying the printer and book designer.
Library's copy is from the collection of the book's printer, Walter Emerson, and is an out-of-series variant of the special signed edition, which comprised 26 lettered and 33 contributors' copies; PML copy includes the added leaves and 32 contributors' signatures and is specially bound in half beige cloth with marbled boards, but lacks the special edition statement on the title-page verso (only the copyright notice), the green paper spine label, and the colophon identifying the printer and book designer.
Description
286 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the 32 poets on 4 added leaves, with a primitive figure of a man drawn in purple ink by Dylan Thomas below his signature on 4th added leaf.
Provenance
Walter Emerson.
Summary
Poems by Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisolm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Louis MacNeice, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, W. R. Rodgers [no autograph], Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Winfield Townley Scott, Karl Shapiro, Theodore Spencer, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, and Oscar Williams.
Binding
Half beige cloth with dark green marbled sides, top edge stained red. Housed in modern quarter green leather drop-spine case with linen sides, spine stamped in gold, and green marbled pattern (matching the original binding) reproduced on paper and mounted to edges of case.
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