Selected poems / by Witter Bynner; edited by Robert Hunt, with a critical preface by Paul Horgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968.

Contributor:

Hunt, Robert, 1907-1964.

Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Flaccus, Kimball, 1911-1972 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, lxxvi, 258 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Manufacture:

Norwood, Mass. : Set up, electrotyped, printed, and bound by The Plimpton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.

Contents:

From 'Young Harvard' (1907)

From 'The New World' (1916)

From 'Grenstone Poems' (1917)

From 'Spectra' (1916) and 'The Beloved Stranger' (1919)

From 'A Canticle of Pan' (1920)

From 'Caravan' (1925)

From 'Indian Earth' (1929)

From 'Eden Tree' (1931)

From 'Guest Book' (1935).

Notes:

With half-title.

Borzoi device on t.p.

"First edition, 1090 copies printed November 23, 1936 ..."--Cf. Lindsay.

Includes index of first lines.

"This book has been set in a modern adaptation of a type designed by William Caslon, the first (1692-1766) ... An artistic, easily-read type, Caslon has had two centuries of ever-increasing popularity in our own country -- it is of interest to note that the first copies of the Declaration of Independence and the first paper currency distributed to the citizens of the new-born nation were printed in this type face."--A note on the type in which this book is set.

Price from dust-jacket: $2.50 net.

Dark blue cloth boards; front cover has blind stamped border with Witter Bynner's signature stamped in gold; spine lettered in gold. Top edge stained light brown, all other edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Kimball Flaccus by Witter Bynner.

Cited in:

Lindsay, R. O. Witter Bynner bibliography, A15

OCLC:

2152567