Weirick Bruce Editor (4 results)

Good plus or better, light general wear hardbound Corners bumped and worn to boards, top front edge bent all the way across. Friday, October 31, 2008 4:03:26 PM One rear fly removed, int hinge broken before last rear fly. Pages browned.Prev owner's inscription on front fly.

Orange Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edge and corner worn, scuffed and scratched, corners are bumped and rubbed, no dj, shelf worn, overall a clean used copy! Deckled page edges. Title is on a pastedown on a blue cloth spine. 96 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and poetic pages! 'With Masters, Lindsay, Sandburg, and Sarett, Illinois has in the last ten years had the good fortune to give to American letters perhaps half the good poetry which the decade has produced." ---- from the Preface Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: incomplete. First Edition. 12mo; xii, 96 pages. clothbacked boards, bookplate of William H. Sahud; flaps of the dj laid in " With MASTERS, LINDSAY, SANDBURG, and SARETT, Illinois has in the last ten years had the good fortune to give to American letters perhaps half the good poetry which the decade has produced. By means of these men, and with Poetry Magazine in Chicago, the middle west has for the first time found a voice and has begun to sing. . The poems in the present volume were written during the last five years by the members of the Poetry Society of the University of Illinois." - Preface. This is the first collection of Illini Poetry. Included are Paul Landis, Don Cameron Allen, Lem Phillips, Los Seyster Montross. Here is the 1919 poem, "The Lincoln Ox-Yoke ", and also a powerful lament marking the death of acclaimed Indiana poet, Lem Phillips, by his fellow poet, Isador Lipton.

Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth spine with paper spine label and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. Very good/good plus. Jacket edge chipped -- but present! Ownership signature/year on front pastedown; occasional underlining. Tight, attractive first edition of an anthology rarely seen in the jacket.