The Careless Clock: Poems about Children in the Family

New York: William Sloane, (1947).

Price: $100.00

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Waldo Pierce. Some offsetting from clippings to a couple of preliminary pages and the rear endpaper, thus only near fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Signed by both Van Doren and Pierce on a cancel leaf.

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Item #88145 The Careless Clock: Poems about Children in the Family. Mark VAN DOREN.

Mark Van Doren
birth name: Mark Van Doren
born: 6/13/1894
died: 12/10/1972

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American poet, writer, and eminent teacher. He upheld the writing of verse in traditional forms throughout a lengthy period of experiment in poetry. As a teacher at Columbia University (N.Y.) for 39 years (1920-59), he exercised a profound influence on generations of students. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore