Modern Things

1934, Modern American poetry including Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Parker Tyler

Author

Parker Tyler, editor

Publisher

The Galleon Press, New York, 1934

Printing Details

First US edition. Hardback in quarter cream cloth with purple cloth covered boards, printed titling to upper board. 22.5 × 14cm, 92pp.

A collection of modern American poems from T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Harold Rosenberg, H. R. Hays, Paul Eaton Reeve, Joseph Rocco, Lionel Abel, Charles Ford, Carl Rakosi, Louis Zukofsky, Raymond Larsson, and Parker Tyler. The book has an introduction by Parker Tyler and of his contributions, Hollywood Dream Suite is dedicated to C.B. who was Charles Boultenhouse, the underground filmmaker and his partner from 1945 until his death.

T S Eliot contributes Triumphal March, and Ezra Pound Canto XXXIV.

Condition

Whilst the book is in sound shape and in strong readable condition, the covers are heavily sunfaded and the spine is bumped with spotted foxing. Previous owner's name to the ffep "Margaret M Thayer, 1936"

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