first edition
1943 · (Cummington, MA)
by Boggs, Tom; Bishop, Elizabeth
(Cummington, MA): The Cummington Press, 1943. First printing. Very good in very good minus jacket.. Limited first edition of this anthology of American poems from the 1930s, including Bishop's "Song: Letter to New York" and "The Weed," previously published in HARPER'S BAZAAR and FORUM AND CENTURY respectively. Also includes work by Malcolm Cowley, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Muriel Rukeyser, Carl Sandburg, Mark Van Doren, William Carlos Williams, and others. 9.5'' x 6.25''. Original blue cloth. In original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket. 93, [3] pages. Edition of 500 copies. Light foxing to jacket and text block edges, (truncated)