Lost Eden and Other Poems by Root, E. Merrill - 1927

The Unicorn Press, 1927 Poetry Hardcover First edition. Very Good. No DJ. Bookplate of previous Owner on front attached end paper. 2 small minor 4 23455555555555555marks at lower center front board. Minor corner wear and touches of edgewear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. . Signed by author at top of front free end paper. Author's first poetry collection.

NY. Very Good with no dust jacket; Hardcover; The Unicorn Press ; 1927. Tan paper cover boards with cloth spine, paper label to spine. Very good, bumping to corners, previous owner name, binding cracked. 125 pages; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: The Unicorn Press, 1927. First edition. 8vo; ¾ paper over tan buckram with paper spine label, 125 pp. The first book by poet, professor, and fervent anti-Communist, Edward Merrill Root (1895-1973) inscribed by him to the radical editor and poet, Flloyd Dell. The inscription reads, "For Flloyd Dell - because I like him." Root was a student of Robert Frost's who once jocularly called him "the second best poet in America." He briefly flirted with Communism and some of the poems from this volume originally appeared in the Socialist periodicals, "The Liberator" and "New Masses," where it's likely he befriended Dell who was heavily involved with both. As an English professor at Earlham College Root became increasingly conservative and authored a number of books on campus radicalism and subversion in educational textbooks. He went on to write for many conservative magazines including "National Review" ending his career as associate… Read More