Interplanetary News Digest, Volume II, Number 1, 1954 by Johnston, Genevieve (Editor) - 1954

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Silvermine, Connecticut: Random House, 1929. Soft Cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. One of 475 sets. Chips and tears to paper wrappers. 1929 Soft Cover. 9 of 12 pamphlets, each containing a new poem by an American poet. Includes: The Aspirant by Theodore Dreiser; Monologue for Mothers (Aside) by Genevieve Taggard; The Lovely Shall be Choosers by Robert Frost; The Prodigal Son by Edwin Arlington Robinson; Red Roses for Bronze "H.D."; Birthday Sonnet by Elinor Wylie; Sagacity by William Rose Benet; Prelude by Conrad Aiken; Roots by Witter Bynner.

New York: Random House, 1929. Paperback. Fine/Folder. 12 chapbooks, each individually stringbound in printed wraps, and all housed in yellow paper folder. This copy lacks the slipcase. 1929. One of 475 sets. Chapbooks in Fine condition; sharp, bright copies. The folder is Good, with light staining; chips to the spine ends. A lovely set. Designed and printed by Paul Johnson. Includes: Monologue for Mothers, Taggard - The Lovely Shall be Choosers, Frost - Rigamarole, Rigamarole, Lindsay - The Prodigal Son, Robinson - Adirondack Cycle, Untermeyer - Body and Stone, Kreymborg - Red Roses for Bronze, HD - Birthday Sonnet, Wylie - The Aspirant, Dreiser - Sagacity, Benet - Prelude, Aiken - Roots, Bynner.

(New York: Random House, 1929). First edition. First appearance of each of the twelve poems. One of 475 sets designed, illustrated and printed by Johnston. Poems printed on handmade paper and stitched into illustrated wrappers in various colors, laid in yellow, printed, paper chemise and housed in publisher's decorated paper slipcase. Includes Genevieve Taggard, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, E. A. Robinson, Louis Untermeyer, Alfred Kreymborg, H. D. [Hilda Doolitte], Elinor Wylie, Theodore Dreiser, William Rose Benet, Conrad Aiken and Witter Bynner. Slipcase chipped at edges and evidently repaired at two seams but otherwise good to very good. Chemise has a few internal tape repairs but is otherwise very good to near fine. Brochures are fine.

New York: Random House, 1929. Limited Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. One of 475 sets of twelve royal octavo chapbooks, designed, illustrated, and printed by Paul Johnston, each being the first appearance of a poem by a contemporary American. (253 x 158mm) [4]pp. Original variously colored handmade string-bound wrappers, front covers with contrasting color vignettes and black lettering, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; all collected in original yellow stiff paper chemise lettered in black and inserted into publisher's black card slipcase decorated with yellow figures. Virtually pristine, with only minor, nearly imperceptible restoration to chemise and slipcase. Clymer & Green, p. 50. Crane A12. Comprising poems by Genevieve Taggard ("Monologue for Mothers"), Robert Frost ("The Lovely Shall be Choosers"), Vachel Lindsay ("Rigamarole, Rigamarole"), Edwin Arlington Robinson ("The Prodigal Son"), Louis Untermeyer ("Adirondack Cycle"), Alfred Kreymborg ("Body and Stone"), H. D. ("Red Roses for… Read More