Corn: A Book of Poems

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.".