Derleth August Hawk (3 results)

Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. First edition. This first issue "devoted to the memory of August Derleth" includes Derleth's "My Life in Poetry," excerpts from his final public address, delivered 11 June 1971 at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, before delegates to the annual convention of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Minor marginalia in margins of Derleth address, several spots to rear cover, a very good copy. Uncommon. (#164260).

Octavo, ten issues, publisher's green cloth stamped titled in gold. All published. One of 170 sets bound in cloth. Publication of HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL was terminated with the tenth issue for financial reasons. "I undertook the publication of HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL, determined to bring out at least ten issues, primarily to inquire into the potential public for a magazine which, while not committed to any one direction in poetry, nevertheless was inclined toward traditional forms, and with an editorial policy encouraging poems of nature and man, secondarily to fill the void left by the suspension of TRAILS . Subscribers to the first year of HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL numbered approximately two hundred; subscribers to the last numbered less than half that number, which, I conclude -- perhaps erroneously -- is not so much criticism of the contents of the magazine as proof of a sad indifference to it" ("On Publishing a Little Magazine," HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL IV:3 [1963], p. 79). "I had not, in any event, visualized extended publication, and the economic facts really permitted of no other solution. True, I had 170 sets bound and priced them at $10 the copy -- of these perhaps half sold; the other half remain to be sold. The entire venture, exclusive of book publication, lost me a total of $1,706.50, or roughly $170 an issue . the overwhelming mass of poetry submitted was so very bad that editing the magazine soon became a depressing chore, and I was not unhappy to suspend it finally" ("My Life in Poetry," 1971). Wilson 695. A fine copy. (#164261).

Octavo, ten issues, printed wrappers, most stapled, last perfect bound. All published. Publication of HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL was terminated with the tenth issue for financial reasons. "I undertook the publication of HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL, determined to bring out at least ten issues, primarily to inquire into the potential public for a magazine which, while not committed to any one direction in poetry, nevertheless was inclined toward traditional forms, and with an editorial policy encouraging poems of nature and man, secondarily to fill the void left by the suspension of TRAILS . Subscribers to the first year of HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL numbered approximately two hundred; subscribers to the last numbered less than half that number, which, I conclude -- perhaps erroneously -- is not so much criticism of the contents of the magazine as proof of a sad indifference to it" ("On Publishing a Little Magazine," HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL IV:3 [1963], p. 79). "I had not, in any event, visualized extended publication, and the economic facts really permitted of no other solution. True, I had 170 sets bound and priced them at $10 the copy -- of these perhaps half sold; the other half remain to be sold. The entire venture, exclusive of book publication, lost me a total of $1,706.50, or roughly $170 an issue . the overwhelming mass of poetry submitted was so very bad that editing the magazine soon became a depressing chore, and I was not unhappy to suspend it finally" ("My Life in Poetry," 1971). Accompanied by the first issue of HAWK & WHIPPOORWILL RECALLED. Summer 1973 (volume 1, number 1). Madison: The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Summer 1973 (volume 1, number 1). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. This first issue "devoted to the memory of August Derleth" includes "Derleth's "My Life in Poetry," excerpts from his final public address, delivered 11 June 1971 at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, before delegates to the annual convention of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Wilson 695. A fine set. (#177594).