NY: Harper and Brothers, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, emerald green buckram cloth with spine and front cover titled in black with gilt lettering. A tight copy, sunning to the spine strip. No jacket. The first collected book of White's poetry. The pieces were written between 1928 and 1938, many of which appeared in The New Yorker, The Saturday Review, The American Mercury, and The Herald Tribune. The collection is gathered into five general sections: "Ballads and Songs of an Eventful Nature" (the first is the humorous title poem, written from the point of view of a fox in Peapack in northern New Jersey); "Songs Having to Do with Greater New York", "Songs of Childbirth, Paternity, mand Routine Domestic Disturbances", "Book Reviews', and "Love Songs, Also Tow of Three Poems of a Cosmic Character". Clean copy. Record # 383018

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Bookseller: Browsing Is Arousing (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 383018
Title: The Fox Of Peapack and Other Poems
Author: E.B. White
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: None
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Harper and Brothers
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1938
Keywords: Poetry, Poets, , .

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