American Song: A Book of Poems
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, untrimmed; dust jacket. Spine of cloth slightly faded; jacket lacking inner rear panel, a few other chips and smaller losses. Item #409163
First edition. This book is dedicated to Stephen Vincent Benét and his wife Rosemary (the rear cover of the dust jacket is devoted to a blurb by Benét about the book). This is the dedication copy, inscribed by Engle on the front flyleaf: "For Steve and Rosemary, with great affection, Paul, Oxford, Trinity, 1934." At the time Engle was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He later helped found the celebrated Iowa Writers Workshop, and published a large body of work, much of it focusing on his native Iowa. (BA).
Price: $450.00