New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. Second Edition. Third printing. Patterned grey and white paper over boards, backed in green cloth, with red topstain, in red dust jacket; 70pp. A newspaper clipping of Cather's poem "Autumn Melody" tipped in to final blank. Minor rubbing to edges, browning to final two leaves and rear endpapers from newspaper clippings: Very Good. Jacket sunned at spine and edges, slightly rubbed, Very Good.

Second edition, third printing of the expanded collection, which first appeared in 1923. Includes all the poems from the 1903 collection, a dozen new poems added in the 1923 edition, and "Poor Marty," which was first published in The Atlantic in 1931 and makes its first book appearance here. CRANE A2.b.iii.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 59419
Title: April Twilights and Other Poems
Author: CATHER, Willa
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1933
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Poetry;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Tipped In: Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...