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The White Stranger: Poems
by Kimball Flaccus
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This is an extraordinary association copy, coming as it does from the library of noted New York book collector and dealer Eugene Delafield (1907-2001), who was known as a patron of poetry and of young poets such as Flaccus. On the verso of the half-title page is a long inscription from Flaccus dated March 13, 1951, dealing with his design of the book's title page and its recognition by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the 50 best books of 1940. The book is also signed at the bottom of the front flap and at the bottom of the back cover by distinguished poet John Hall Wheelock, who succeeded Maxwell Perkins as editor-in-chief at Scribner's. As an editor, Wheelock worked with Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kennan Rawlings, Allan Nevins, Charles A. Lindbergh, and James Truslow Adams, and was credited with discovering such young poets as May Swenson, James Dickey, Louis Simpson, and Joseph Langland. In Flaccus' inscription to Delafield is a line that "Jack Wheelock" can vouch for Flaccus' claims to design excellent. At the inside top of the front board are some pencilled notations, likely from Delafield, noting the places of Wheelock's signatures and the date of them (Sept. 24, 1970), as well as the date of Flaccus' inscription. The book is fine. The dust jacket is close to very good-plus, with wear along the edges and tips and a one-inch scratch near the top of the spine just above the book's title. In a Brodart cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Allen Panzeri Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 696
- Title
- The White Stranger: Poems
- Author
- Kimball Flaccus
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner’s Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Allen Panzeri Books
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Ottawa, Ontario
About Allen Panzeri Books
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Glossary
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- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 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...
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