Description
The first edition New Michigan Verse, inscribed by the editor, Carl Edwin Burklund, to fellow professor and poet, Arno L. Bader.
Octavo, xv, [3], 113pp. Original cloth-backed boards, title in gilt on spine. With a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. Light wear to boards, internally clean. Discoloration to front pastedown, light dust remnant along top of text block. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.00 on the front flap, lightly soiled, a very good example.
Inscribed by the editor, Carl Edwin Burklund, to Professor Arno L. Bader, a fellow member of the University of Michigan English faculty and later chairman of the university’s Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing. (McLeod, B3)
Contributions including Theodore Roethke, John Malcolm Brinnin, Ivan Swift, Bennett Weaver, Howard Mumford Jones, Frederick Ten Hoor, and Burklund.
