WILLIAMS, Oscar, editor (Signed by Conrad Aiken, W.H. Auden, R.P. Blackmur, Richard Eberhart, Horace Gregory, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Louis Macneice, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, and others)

New Poems 1942: An Anthology of British and American Verse

First edition, deluxe issue Signed by all but one of the thirty-three contributors (as issued). Ink initials on the front free endpaper, and light rubbing to the extremities of the marbled papercovered boards, a near fine copy. The special signed edition was limited to one copy for each contributor and twenty-six copies for sale, of which this is contributor John Peale Bishop's copy, so stated on the colophon. The volume is Signed by Conrad Aiken, W.H. Auden, R.P. Blackmur, Richard Eberhart, Horace Gregory, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Louis Macneice, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Penn Warren, as well as the other contributors: Kenneth Allott, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Willam Empson, Jean Garrigue, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Muriel Rukeyser, Winfield Townley Scott, Theodore Spencer, and Oscar Williams. (There is only allotted space for the existing thirty-two signatures, and contributor W.R. Rodgers has not signed the volume, likely because of the war.) Includes photographs and short biographies of the contributors. Several of the poems, including some by Stevens and Thomas, appear here for the first time in book form. An extraordinary assemblage of signatures and contributions by the greatest English language poets of the era.

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