Author: Van Doren, Mark.
Title: Mortal Summer. By Mark Van Doren.
Description: Iowa City: The Prairie Press, (1953). (1953). - Octavo, light blue cloth titled in black on the spine, in a printed fine creamy tan paper dust wrapper. There is a tiny tear to the top of the dust jacket's spine. 63 & [i] pages, with the title page printed in 3 colors and with burgundy ornaments and silver gray rules throughout. Near fine.

First edition. Designed and printed by Caroll Coleman at the Prairie Press in Iowa City, Iowa. The types are Caslon and Frye's Ornamented and the paper is Linweave Early American.

From the library of John Cowper Powys bibliographer Lloyd Emerson Siberell with a cancelled check signed by him and made out to The Prairie Press and with his beautifully printed book plate, both laid into an envelope. The bookplate is an attractive woodcut portrait of Siberell smoking a pipe as he writes with a quill by candle light, books in the background." Auburncrest Library" and "Lloyd Emerson Siberell" are cut in auburn orange above and below the image the whole of which is framed by ornaments decorating the motto "Candles they are that on a wayside bare regather what the human heart forgets". The original prospectus broadside for the book, housed in The Prairie Press's original mailing envelope, is also laid in. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; FINE PRESS; THE PRAIRIE PRESS; MARK VAN DOREN; MORTAL SUMMER; POETRY; POEMS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; MODERN; 20TH CENTURY; LLOYD EMERSON SIBERELL; BOOKPLATE; WOODCUT; SIGNED CHECK; BOOK DESIGN; IOWA CITY.

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