Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927 and Year Book of American Poetry

by Braithwaite, William Stanley (Editor)

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Boston, MA: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1927. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Includes an autograph letter from Braithwaite to Margaret Widdemer (Pulitizer Prize/Columbia Prize winner)! Cover has some wear and sticker residue.. xv, [1], 405, 146 p. Index. This book includes very useful scholarly information, such as a list of magazine abbreviations, an index of poets and poems published in American magazines from August 1926 through July 1927, a selected list of books about poets and poetry published during the same period, a list of magazines publishing poetry with their addresses, a list of poetry prizes and winners, an index to first lines. From Wikipedia: Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 July 14, 1978) was a U.S. poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, shared with Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers. Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of the First Congregational Church. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She first came to public attention with her poem The Factories, which treated the subject of child labor. In 1919 she married Robert Haven Schauffler (1879 1964), a widower five years her senior. Schauffler was an author and cellist who published widely on poetry, travel, culture, and music. His

• Publisher: B. J. Brimmer Company
• Year: 1927
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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