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ROBERT FROST, CONRAD AIKEN, H.D., VACHEL LINDSAY, CARL SANDBURG &c : American Poetry 1927. A Miscellany. Edited with a three page foreword by Louis Untermeyer

Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927

First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 304pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A hint of dust soiling to the top edge, else a fine copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, which is lightly toned and nicked with a centimetre of loss from the head of the spine panel and two further much smaller areas of edge-loss. Rockwell Kent-designed bookplate of the noted American bibliophile Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. to the front pastedown. An anthology of 147 poems by sixteen authors including Robert Frost (his poems 'Premium Mobile', 'Eternal Masculine', 'The Unjust World', 'Brazen Tongue', 'Mimi and the Foreboding Frost', 'The Wood-Cutter's Wife', 'Apes in Avernu' and 'Mustang'), H.D. (three series of poems over forty-two pages), Conrad Aiken (eleven poems, all of which were later included, with some revisions, in his collection 'John Deth: A Metaphysical Legend, and Other Poems'), John Gould Fletcher (his poem 'Creation and Fall'), Archibald MacLeish (six poems), Edna St. Vincent Millay (three sonnets), Vachel Lindsay (eleven poems), Carl Sandburg (six poems), Nathalia Crane, Robinson Jeffers, Alfred Kreymborg, Elinor Wylie and the editor. The fourth volume in this series of annual miscellanies of previously uncollected or unpublished work (somewhat self-consciously rivalling Edward Marsh's 'Georgian Poetry' series). Bonnell B21.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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