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John RuskinBiblio.com

Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures by John Ruskin LL.D

Robert Frost, with introductory essays by W H Auden, C Day Lewis, Paul Engle, and Edwin MuirBiblio.com

Selected Poems signed and dated by Robert Frost in San Antonio Texas within four months of publication in England

1936008594London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1936. First edition first printing. Hardcover. This compellingly well-preserved jacketed first edition first printing was signed by Frost in Texas in 1937. Frost wrote in two lines on the front free endpaper recto: Robert Frost San Antonio 1937. This copy was signed thus within four months of publication 13 November 1936; Frost spent the winter of 1936-37 in San Antonio from December 1936 until late March 1937 taking up residence at a home close to Trinity University. Condition is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square clean bright and tight with sharp corners and only mild shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are clean with no spotting no soiling and only mild age toning. The blue-stained top edges retain even color the fore and untrimmed bottom edges are clean. Texas provenance for this British-only edition is both a bit ironic and entirely complete; the sole previous ownership mark other than the authors signature is a small booksellers sticker affixed to the lower left rear pastedown: FRANK ROSENGREN BOOKSELLER MILAM BLDG. San Antonio Texas in operation from 1935 to 1987. Willie Morris editor of Harper's called Rosengren's Books "one of the finest and most admirable bookstores in America." The white dust jacket printed in red and black is unclipped retaining the original lower front flap 5s. net price and entirely complete with no loss or tears. While the jacket shows light overall soiling we note no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine and only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. Selected Poems had first been published in 1923 with poems from Frosts first three published collections A Boys Will North of Boston and Mountain Interval. The collection was carefully calculated to present Frost as a major contemporary figure. Frosts arrival as a major contemporary figure had been imminent; that first Selected Poems was published in March 1923 preceding the November 1923 publication of New Hampshire the collection that won Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. By 1936 when this expanded Selected Poems was published by Jonathan Cape in London Frost unequivocally was a major contemporary figure. The arrangement of poems 62 rather than the 1923 editions 43 poems was not only a new and expanded arrangement but also the first book of Frosts to contain material by others with introductory essays by W. H. Auden C. Day Lewis Paul Engle and Edwin Muir. This expanded edition of Selected Poems was published first and only in England where Frosts first book A Boys Will had been published in 1913 23 years before. It had been in England that this quintessential American poet had been first published and recognized. Now preeminent in America Frost was being reintroduced to England. As explained by the publishers note on the dust jacket flap: Mr. Robert Frost is by now recognized as the outstanding poet of his generation in America and to the few but still too few in England his work has long been known as unique in its kind it is a striking tribute to the appeal of his poetry that Mr. W. H. Auden Mr. Cecil Day Lewis Mr. Paul Engle and Mr. Edwin Muir should have contributed for this volume four specially written essays of critical appreciation uniting in their admiration of an artist older in years but unageing in his sensibility and performance. Frost required little introduction for the rest of his life. The next year 1937 he won the third of his eventual and still-unequaled four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He spent his final years as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an ever-growing hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration Kennedy January 1961. References: Crane A5 & A22; Parini Robert Frost: A Life; San Antonio Current Jonathan Cape Ltd. hardcover

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Robert Frost, with introductory essays by W H Auden, C Day Lewis, Paul Engle, and Edwin MuirBiblio.com

Selected Poems signed and dated by Paul Engle at his introductory essay with his laid-in compliments card

1936008698London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1936. First edition first printing. Hardcover. This jacketed first edition first printing is signed by American poet literary critic and educator Paul Engle at the head of his introductory essay. On page 23 just below his printed name Engle signed Paul Engle in blue ink. A handsome folding compliments card laid in features a gilt embossed crown device on the front cover the inside of the card printed With all best wishes and UNIVERSITY OF IOWA with Engles signature Paul Engle in between. Also laid in is a franked 1957 postcard posted from New York City featuring a printed announcement: The Poetry Society of America has the honor of presenting PAUL ENGLE in comments and readings from his published work on Thursday February 28. Condition of this signed presentation copy is near fine in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square clean bright and tight with sharp corners and only mild shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are clean with no spotting no soiling and only mild age toning. The blue-stained top edges retain even color the fore and untrimmed bottom edges are clean. The sole previous owner markings in the book in pencil on the upper front pastedown indicate that the ostensibly original owner paid $2.00 for this copy on Nov. 25 1936 and that it was Signed Mar. 7 1957 not long after the 28 February 1957 event advertised on the laid-in postcard. The white dust jacket printed in red and black is unclipped retaining the original lower front flap 5s. net price and substantially complete with fractional loss confined to the upper joints and upper flap fold corners. The jacket is unfaded with no color shift between the covers and spine but lightly soiled overall with a short closed tear at the upper front flap fold and a three-inch angled tear extending from the upper front joint down along the front face to the left of the printed title. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. The contributing author who signed Paul Engle 1908-1991 had intended to become a Methodist minister but decided instead to enter the University of Iowa and obtained an M.A. in 1932. His thesis consisted of an original book of poems Worn Earth which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. A sojourn in England followed via a Rhodes scholarship and study under the poet Edmund Blunden. This may help explain why Engle is the only American among the four contributors to this work. Engle took a post at the University of Iowa in 1937 where he spent the remainder of his academic career. By the end of his life he had published more than a dozen books of poetry and left an enduring mark on the institutionalization of creative writing. Frosts Selected Poems had first been published in 1923 with 43 poems from Frosts first three published collections. This 1936 new and expanded edition now with 62 poems was the first book of Frosts to contain material by others with introductory essays by W. H. Auden C. Day Lewis Paul Engle and Edwin Muir. It was published first and only in England where Frosts first book A Boys Will had been published in 1913 23 years before. It had been in England that this quintessential American poet had been first published and recognized. Now preeminent in America Frost was being reintroduced to England. As explained by the publishers note on the dust jacket flap: Mr. Robert Frost is by now recognized as the outstanding poet of his generation in America and to the few but still too few in England his work has long been known as unique in its kind it is a striking tribute to the appeal of his poetry that Mr. W. H. Auden Mr. Cecil Day Lewis Mr. Paul Engle and Mr. Edwin Muir should have contributed for this volume four specially written essays of critical appreciation uniting in their admiration of an artist older in years but unageing in his sensibility and performance. References: Crane A5 & A22; ANB; Parini Robert Frost: A Life Jonathan Cape Ltd. hardcover

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