First edition.
Signed by the author Mark Van Doren on the front endpaper.
Van Doren's signature is penned above the Garden Country Day school's prize inscription penned in block letters. The book as awarded to Ruth Schuster as the second prize for the Mary Holliday Mitchell Poetry Contest in 1940. Ruth Schuster's attractive bookplate is mounted on the front pastedown. Very good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; A WINTER DIARY AND OTHER POEMS; MARK VAN DOREN; POEMS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; 20TH CENTURY; PRIZE INSCRIPTION; GARDEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL; MARY HOLLIDAY MITCHELL POETRY CONTEST.