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The American Caravan: A Yearbook of America Literature. Signed by Robert Penn Warren
3735259<p>New York: The Macaulay Company 1927. Large thick octavo. xvi 2 1–843 pp. Publisher’s original full cloth binding preserved in the 1928 Jonathan Cape Ltd. London dust jacket. A very good copy; quite handsome.</p> <p>Signed by Robert Penn Warren in Seminal Modernist Anthology Featuring Hemingway Stein Stevens and Others</p> <p>First edition signed on the title page by Robert Penn Warren whose poem “Kentucky Mountain Farm†appears within together with a biographical sketch in the rear matter. Warren only twenty-two at the time would later emerge as one of the central figures of American letters a Pulitzer Prize winner in both poetry and fiction and co-author of I’ll Take My Stand. </p> <p>The volume assembles a wide-ranging collection of contemporary writing including contributions from Ernest Hemingway Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Hart Crane John Dos Passos Archibald MacLeish Edmund Wilson and Allen Tate. The anthology sought to define and represent the forward edge of American literary culture in the late 1920s placing Warren in company with the most influential voices of the period.</p> <p>An interesting association copy: a foundational modernist anthology carrying the autograph of one of its youngest contributors who would become a major figure in twentieth-century American literature.</p> unknown
