BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT — John Brown's Body
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Stated first edition after the printing of 201 de luxe copies. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, top edge brown, fore-edge deckle. [Blockson 101, No. 67]. Benet won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this poem in 1929. Glue residue of removed bookplate on fep, gilt on spine moderately faded, else as new; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. iv, 376, (1) pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .