American Song: A Book of Poems por Engle, Paul - 1934

Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Cover staining, Good. No Dust Jacket. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1934.

Doubleday, Doran. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. (poetry)

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Small 8vo. 102pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, blind stamped on front. A near fine, crisp copy in very good, lightly soiled, spine tanned dust jacket, short creases to spine bottom at the folds, and 2 horizontal creases at bottom of rear panel.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover.

Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Cloth. Fine/Fair. Smaller, sturdy book, quality black cloth, embossed title and author and star design on front, gilt lettering bright on spine, 102 pages. DJ paper, white background lightly browned with design of small black illustrations including Indians, an eagle, a buffalo and more. DJ is badly worn, torn and chipped. Fair DJ/Fine book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. First British edition. Spine faded and cloth covers stained, else very good or better lacking the dustwrapper.

Jonathan Cape, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to CLEAN boards. Some light dusting to topedge of textblock. Internally CLEAN. A few fox spots to endpapers. Endpapers ORIGINAL & UNSPLIT. TIGHT textblock. Old ink name & date on endpaper. NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves. The dustwrapper is present with wear to extremities & a small chip to head of spine. Dusting to panels and darkening to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Not the usual Doubleday Doran US edition..

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. First edition. Near fine in very lightly sunned dust jacket with a bit of edge-wear and a few short tears.. 8vo, black cloth. A presentation copy, inscribed with four lines of verse: "To Dwight M. Clark ... where shall they go / Now, the forever westward-wandering people? / They cannot be quiet, the cannot rest, they would not / Be American if they could do that... Paul Engle, March 27, 1941.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 102pp. Near fine/ very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips and spine slightly age toned; toned area to front endpaper from long-ago newsprint contact. Quite tight and nice first edition of the poet's second book, signed by him large and bold in black ink on inner flyleaf, below which he adds "Oxford, 1934" -- after college Engle was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford from 1933 to 1936. The famed Iowa poet/educator/critic/novelist (1908-91) is best known as long-time director of the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine of cloth slightly faded; jacket lacking inner rear panel, a few other chips and smaller losses. 8vo. Original blue cloth, untrimmed; dust jacket. First edition. This book is dedicated to Stephen Vincent Benét and his wife Rosemary (the rear cover of the dust jacket is devoted to a blurb by Benét about the book). This is the dedication copy, inscribed by Engle on the front flyleaf: "For Steve and Rosemary, with great affection, Paul, Oxford, Trinity, 1934." At the time Engle was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He later helped found the celebrated Iowa Writers Workshop, and published a large body of work, much of it focusing on his native Iowa. (BA).