Description
The first edition, first printing of Poems Old and New, inscribed by John Hall Wheelock, with a handwritten line of poetry from the book.
Octavo, xix, 203pp. Publisher’s beige cloth. The first printing, with “Scribner’s A” on the copyright page. Appears unread. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, $3.50 on the front flap, touch of wear to tips of the spine.
Inscribed and dated by the author, with four handwritten lines of poetry on the front free endpaper.
Poems Old and New received the Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award in 1956 and the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1957. Wheelock was a longtime editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons and author of numerous volumes of American verse.
