Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol. 1 No. 1

by Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, Arthur Davison Ficke, William

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

Chicago: Poetry, 1912. The very first issue of the long-running American poetry magazine. Vol. 1 No. 1, published in October 1912. 32, 2 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with small closed tear to front wrap, light soiling and wear to yapped edges, slight roll to spine. A very nice copy. Founding editor Harriet Monroe would publish Poetry until her death in 1937; it continues to this day. This issue

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