SEMI-CENTENNIAL. Some of the Life and Part of the Opinions of Leonard Bacon. ( Signed )

Bacon, Leonard

Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1939

About this Item

1st edition, 1939. A Very Good book in a Fair dust jacket. 8vo., 273 pp., bound in publishers burgundy cloth with tan dust jacket, $3.50. SIGNED letter from author laid in. Jacket has losses at edges and top & base of spine. Pages toned at edges, appear unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Leonard Bacon (1887 1954) was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym 'Autholycus'. He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. Laid in is letter from Bacon to Howard Goodhart, retired stock- broker, bibliophile and philosopher, dated May 27th 1945 and signed by Leonard Bacon. It discusses Mrs. Southwell and the Children's Overseas Reception Board.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SEMI-CENTENNIAL. Some of the Life and Part of the Opinions of Leonard Bacon. ( Signed )
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London
• Publication Date: 1939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography