Grenstone poems, a sequence / by Witter Bynner author of "The New World," etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Stearns, Harold Crawford, 1890-1958 (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 307 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1917]

Contents:

Grace before the poems

Grenstone: I. On the way to Grenstone; II. Neighbors and the countryside; III. Children and death; IV. Dalliance; V. Wisdom and Unwisdom; VI. The old cry; VII. Celia

Away from Grenstone: I. An Island City; II. West; III. South; IV. A city by the sea

Grenstone Again: I. Celia; II. News; III. Hand in hand; IV. Women; V. Losing Celia; VI. Finding Celia; VII. An end and a beginning.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1917, by Frederick A. Stokes Company."

"In the second issue, the canceled title page differs from the title page of the first issue only in the omission of the words 'with cover and frontispiece by Spencer Baird Nichols'; there is no frontispiece and the binding (original black cloth) is different."--Cf. Lindsay.

Maroon cloth with blind stamped border on front cover, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate and autograph of Harold Crawford Stearns, Christmas Day 1917.

Culture Class Collection copy has "First Edition" written in ms. on t.p. verso.

Culture Class Collection copy is second issue with omission of the words on t.p. 'with cover and frontispiece by Spencer Baird Nichols', no frontispiece and maroon binding.

Cited in:

Lindsay, R. O. Witter Bynner a bibliography, A4

OCLC:

3918561