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A Signed Set of American Poetry
1920989N18Stanford California; Brooklyn New York; St. Louis; Chicago: Stanford University; Irving S. Richter; Hicks Almanac and Publishing Company; Henry Regnery Company 1920-1953. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Unknown; Diego Rivera . A charming set of American poetry all first editions signed by the authors including an early work from Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Bacon. A charming set of American poetry all signed with inscriptions from the authors. All four works are first editions published between 1920 and 1953.Sophia Trenton: A Moral Poem an early and scarce work of 1941 Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Bacon. Published by Stanford University when Bacon was a Phi Beta Kappa poet in 1920.The Power of Love: The City of Comrades A Voice from the Inifinite and Other Verses written by Irving S. Richter with an inscription signed to fellow American author Zane Grey a key figure in the Western literary genre Published by Richter in 1920.Inspiration Poems written by poet and psychologist David V. Bush who hired H.P. Lovecraft to revise some of his works during the 1920's. An advocate of self-help his anthology contains uplifting verse. Published by Hicks Almanac in 1921.Bread Out of Stone written by Scharmel Iris an intriguing poet most famous for forging praise from many successful writers including W.B. Yeats who 'wrote' the preface of this anthology. Published by Henry Regnery Company in 1953.Trenton and Power are in the publisher's original paper wraps while Inspirational and Bread are in the publisher's original cloth. Signatures of Inspirational and Bread are on the front free end papers while the signature for Trenton is on the title leaf while the signature Power is on the frontispiece. Power Inspirational and Bread contain frontispieces of the poets. Trenton and Power are in the publisher's original paper wraps while Inspirational and Bread are in the publisher's original cloth. Externally smart. Signs of shelf wear with small chips to the top edge of Trenton and slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine of Power and Bread. Fading to the spine of Bread and to the extremities of Trenton. Mottling to the edge extremities of Inspirational. Minor marks to the wraps of Power. End papers are generally bright and clean with slight signs of browning. A bookplate to the front paste down of Inspirational. Wear to the center of the hinge to Power end papers. Internally firmly bound with slight wear to hinge of Inspirational between leaves pp.144-145 and to hinge of Power between frontispiece and title leaf. Pages are bright and clean to Trenton Power and Bread with browning to leaves pp.20-21 of Inspirational. Good Stanford University; Irving S. Richter; Hicks Almanac and Publishing Company; Henry Regnery Company hardcover
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