Author: LINDSAY, Vachel
Title: Springfield Town Is Butterfly Town
Description: Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Illustrated by the author. Preface by Louis Untermeyer. Introduction by Pierre Dussert. Small 4to. Patterned paper over boards with green spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. (Ca. 75pp). Numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Boards ever-so-slightly bowed, as usual; mild jacket wear. Handsome, tight first edition of these posthumously-published verses long thought lost. This copy is extra-illustrated with a unique frontispiece: Tipped facing the title page is a Typed Note Signed from Untermeyer, 1p, 4½" X 5½", Newtown, CT, 29 January 1972. Addressed to Marshall Bean. Fine. On imprinted "from the desk of Louis Untermeyer" stationery, the prolific poet/anthologist/essayist/translator/critic/editor (1885-1977) writes cordially to a Maine educator that "I regret that I cannot write the poem you request. What with a crowded desk and on overcrowded mind, I am hard put to get away for a short respite.." Boldly signed in blue ballpoint. .
Keywords: Poetry Children's
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Title: Springfield Town Is Butterfly Town
Description: Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Illustrated by the author. Preface by Louis Untermeyer. Introduction by Pierre Dussert. Small 4to. Patterned paper over boards with green spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. (Ca. 75pp). Numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Boards ever-so-slightly bowed, as usual; mild jacket wear. Handsome, tight first edition of these posthumously-published verses long thought lost. This copy is extra-illustrated with a unique frontispiece: Tipped facing the title page is a Typed Note Signed from Untermeyer, 1p, 4½" X 5½", Newtown, CT, 29 January 1972. Addressed to Marshall Bean. Fine. On imprinted "from the desk of Louis Untermeyer" stationery, the prolific poet/anthologist/essayist/translator/critic/editor (1885-1977) writes cordially to a Maine educator that "I regret that I cannot write the poem you request. What with a crowded desk and on overcrowded mind, I am hard put to get away for a short respite.." Boldly signed in blue ballpoint. .
Keywords: Poetry Children's
Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 47169
- Book number: 47169
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