Mortal Summer. by Van Doren, Mark - (1953).

Prairie Press, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover with DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear, covered with protective plastic and fixed to inside covers.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. A single long poem. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the top of the front panel.

A fine copy in almost fine dust jacket. A nice production designed and printed by Carroll Coleman at the renown Prairie Press.

Paperback / softback. New.

Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman on Lynweave Early American Paper. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1953. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. Prairie Press. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 63+(1) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. Front top inside corner of dust jacket clipped.

Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1953. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. Prairie Press. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 63+(1) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. Fine condition.

Iowa City: Prairie Press, 1953. Edition limited to 221 copies, 8vo, pp. [6], 9-63, [1]; printed in red and black; original blue cloth stamped in black on spine, unclipped dust jacket; fine throughout. From the library of Kim Merker. A review copy, with a publisher's slip printed in red laid in. Cheever 107.

Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. A single long poem. A near fine copy with a few pencil notations and marginalia in fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Van Doren to writer Chard Powers Smith: "To Chard and Laurette with Happy New Year - Mark 12/31/53." A nice association copy of a book seldom found signed.

Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in about near fine jacket with a few short tears, toning and wear to the topedge of the rear flap. Inscribed by Van Doren to his former student Daniel Hoffman, who served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974 and published several additional books of poetry and literary scholarship.