The Bookfellow Poetry Annual: 1940
The Bookfellows, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good / No Jacket. Item #L025920
8vo 169pp+plate. 'The third issue, presenting the work of members of the Order of Bookfellows' (title page); includes a dedicatory sonnet to Hamlin Garland and a portrait photograph of Garland by editor Seymour. Works by over 80 different poets included, plus an introductory essay ('Pronouncement Vainglorious') signed 'P.R.A.' One of 400 copies (the entire edition), printed by The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 1940. Presentation copy; signed ('P.L.C.') and inscribed by contributor Phoebe L. Campbell on front free endpaper. A very good copy in cloth with slight rubbing and sunning to spine and covers; slight wear to head of spine; slight internal browning; slight stain to front free endpaper.1 b/w photo (frontis port).
Price: $20.00