Foreword by Thomas Mcgrath (3 results)

Hardcover. x, 46p., limited to a 1,000 copies, first edition, very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dj with a 1.5 inch closed tear along the spine. Sociologist David Wellman's copy, with his ownership signature and rubberstamp on free front endpaper and rubberstamps on fore-edge, top and bottom edges of textblock, half-title, title page, and acknowledgments page. "Rolfe, it should be noted, is one of the politically committed poets whose work largely meets New Critical standards for producing formally coherent, metaphorically inventive, fully realized, and self-sufficient poems. That he is almost wholly excluded from our cultural memory demonstrates that political--not merely purportedly disinterested aesthetic--criteria have helped determine what poets we honor in our texts and literary histories." *Cary Nelson in his book Repression and recovery, modern American poetry and the politics of memory, 1910-1945 - p. 114.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Covers are clean, crown and foot of spine bumped. DJ is clean and crisp, wrapped in protective mylar. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W with photographs throughout. 252 pages. Title page dated 2008. Copyright page dated 2008. Stated Second Printing. Signed by author in black ink on front free endpaper. Additionally signed by Patrick A. Schroeder (author of preface) in black ink on title page, just above his printed name. A very good copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s). …

Library Binding. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo, 128 pp. A novel. Original wrappers rebound in library cloth (but not ex-library). Small top edge stain lightly affecting wrappers and top margins of first few leaves; pages tanned.