A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover with Slipcase. 12mo. Pp. 672. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photo portraits. Half bound in light blue buckram over blue cloth boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Rear hinge starting, else a bright copy in the slipcase that shows slight edge-wear. Item #6437
Former owner name in ink on the front free endpaper ("Dorothy Jean Lobrano") is that of Dorothy Lobrano Guth, goddaughter of E. B. White, longtime New Yorker staffer and editor of The Letters of E. B. White.A robust anthology of the usual suspects of 20th century poetry, but also including Dunstan Thompson, Shaemas O'Sheel, Stephen Spender, Henry Treece, Delmore Schwartz, Louise Bogan, et al.
Price: $30.00