American Poetry.
New York: Harper & Row, [1965]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red and green cloth with gilt lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xxxiv, 1274pp. Very good/very good. Faint bit of jacket edgewear; binding spine faintly wrinkled. Item #39848
A tight and lovely later printing of this thick anthology, which ranges from Anne Bradstreet (born 1612) to Wendell Berry (born 1934). Tipped to the front flyleaf is an archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full in blue fineline by famed Walt Whitman biographer Gay Wilson Allen (1903-95), who in 1981 authored the Pulitzer Prize-nominated "Waldo Emerson: A Biography."
Price: $45.00