Corn by Engle Paul: Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover with DJ. Burgundy cloth binding with black and white illustration pictorial label on front cover and gold lettering on spine. In good condition, especially considering age, with fading on covers and spine and some wear present on spine and around edgings. Pictorial DJ present and in fair condition, with wear and tearing present on both covers and spine. Bumped and torn DJ corners and some tape present around top and bottom of spine. Wear around DJ edgings. DJ is price-clipped. Front and back end-papers and free end-papers are slightly discolored from age. Purple library stamp on front end-paper. 105 pages. Copyright page dated 1939. A printed copy of author's biography is attached to front free end-paper and signed by the author, Paul Engle, in black ink and dated August 20, 1963. Binding good and tight. Pages clean and square. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York, 1939; signed by author on free front end paper; 1st edition; brown cloth covered boards; edge and corner wear; illustration pasted to front board; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; end papers toned; interior clean and unmarked; 105 pages. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A very good copy of the stated first hard cover edition, lacking the dust-jacket, signed by Paul Engle on the front free endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper previously removed, with ownership name blacked out below. A couple of small stains atop front endpaper, with discoloration to front and rear endpapers, as from aging of binder's glue. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding still rather bright and fresh in appearance, with minor wear at the extremities and some dulling to the gilt lettering on the spine. A sharp copy. Signed by Author(s).…

viii+105pp. 8vo. Original cloth with black and white illustration pasted to upper cover. Dustwrapper chipped and sunned on backstrip. Signed by the author. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Corn: A Book of Poems. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Jacket illustration by Grant Wood. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, fresh copy. No other signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a 1/2 gilt stamped maroon morocco slipcase with matching cloth folding chemise. Signed and inscribed by Engle on the front free endpaper in black fountain pen ink to noted collector Earle J. Bernheimer: "To E.J. Bernheimer, A grindstone does its job. By a perpetual turning in one place, Wearing itself down slower that the steel. Paul Engle, Stone City, Iowa, July 1, 1943.". Signed by Author(s).…