American Song: A Book of Poems by Engle, Paul - 1934

Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Cover staining, Good. No Dust Jacket. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1934.

Doubleday, Doran. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. (poetry)

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Small 8vo. 102pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, blind stamped on front. A near fine, crisp copy in very good, lightly soiled, spine tanned dust jacket, short creases to spine bottom at the folds, and 2 horizontal creases at bottom of rear panel.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover.

Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Cloth. Fine/Fair. Smaller, sturdy book, quality black cloth, embossed title and author and star design on front, gilt lettering bright on spine, 102 pages. DJ paper, white background lightly browned with design of small black illustrations including Indians, an eagle, a buffalo and more. DJ is badly worn, torn and chipped. Fair DJ/Fine book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. First British edition. Spine faded and cloth covers stained, else very good or better lacking the dustwrapper.

Jonathan Cape, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to CLEAN boards. Some light dusting to topedge of textblock. Internally CLEAN. A few fox spots to endpapers. Endpapers ORIGINAL & UNSPLIT. TIGHT textblock. Old ink name & date on endpaper. NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves. The dustwrapper is present with wear to extremities & a small chip to head of spine. Dusting to panels and darkening to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Not the usual Doubleday Doran US edition..

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. Engle's second collection, 102 pages. Lightly bumped and rubbed, spine a bit sunned. Inscribed on the front pastedown "For a pleasant introduction, Paul Engle Nov. 15, 1937." Above the inscription is the previous owner's name, Rewey Belle Inglis, first woman president of the National Council of Teachers of English.. Inscribed By the Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. First edition. Near fine in very lightly sunned dust jacket with a bit of edge-wear and a few short tears.. 8vo, black cloth. A presentation copy, inscribed with four lines of verse: "To Dwight M. Clark ... where shall they go / Now, the forever westward-wandering people? / They cannot be quiet, the cannot rest, they would not / Be American if they could do that... Paul Engle, March 27, 1941.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 102pp. Near fine/ very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips and spine slightly age toned; toned area to front endpaper from long-ago newsprint contact. Quite tight and nice first edition of the poet's second book, signed by him large and bold in black ink on inner flyleaf, below which he adds "Oxford, 1934" -- after college Engle was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford from 1933 to 1936. The famed Iowa poet/educator/critic/novelist (1908-91) is best known as long-time director of the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.