Burklund Carl Edwin Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A collection of regional verse published just prior to World War II. Includes such poets as Theodore Rothke, John Brinin, Ivan Swift and Joseph Cherwinski. Probably a first edition, but no mention of the edition in the book. Original green cloth spine over brown paper-covered covers; the gilt spine lettering dull. Previous owner name and adress on the inside front paste-down, else a clean, tight, unmarked book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 113 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. The first edition New Michigan Verse, inscribed by the editor, Carl Edwin Burklund, to fellow professor and poet, Arno L. Bader. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xv, [3], 113pp. Original cloth-backed boards, title in gilt on spine. With a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. Light wear to boards, internally clean. Discoloration to front pastedown, light dust remnant along top of text block. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 on the front flap, lightly soiled, a very good example. Inscribed by the editor, Carl Edwin Burklund, to Professor Arno L. Bader, a fellow member of the University of Michigan English faculty and later chairman of the university's Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing. (McLeod, B3). Contributions including Theodore Roethke, John Malcolm Brinnin, Ivan Swift, Bennett Weaver, Howard Mumford Jones, Frederick Ten Hoor, and Burklund. Signed.