AMERICAN PREFACES A JOURNAL [later: QUARTERLY] OF CRITICAL AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE by American Prefaces - 1943

Iowa City, IA, 1943. I:1 through VIII:12 (lacking VI:2,4, VII:4 and VIII 1-3 for all published). Fifty-three issues. Quarto and octavo. Printed self-wrappers and printed wrappers. Seventeen issues are duplicate LC Deposit copies, with appropriate stamps, and one with accompanying deposit letter; six other issues bear stamps from other sources (only three of them aesthetically bothersome); the remaining issues are unmarked. Apart from the stamps, a few scattered issues show tanning or modest soiling, the first is a bit darkened and chipped at the wrapper edges, but most are very good or better. Edited by Wilbur Schramm and Paul Engle, and later, by Engle and associates, including Jean Garrigue. Published monthly through volume V, then quarterly in revised format. A significant University-sponsored periodical, partaking of - but not hampered by - its regional and academic roots. Contributors include T. S. Eliot, E. Douglas Branch, Rukeyser, Villa, Paul Bowles, Rölvaag, Norman Macleod, Grant Wood, T.H. Benton, Stegner, Adamic, March, Abbe, Frost, Stafford, Stuart, Creekmore, Jolas, Roethke, Van Duyn, Neruda, Frank, Welty, Taylor, Stevens, W.C. Williams, et al. HOFFMAN, et al, p. 329.