Softcover
1928 · London
by Underwood Wilbur
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Original plain wraps, light sunning to spine, scattered minor foxing internally. Inscribed: "For Julia Goldsborough Johnston in friendship, Wilbur Underwood, Washington March 1929". Scarce book of decadent poems by Underwood, perhaps more well known as Hart Crane's confidant in the 1920s.The editors of Crane's Selected Letters have speculated that Underwood's early poems were formative in Crane's own work. Underwood's work, though written during the rise of Modernism, harkens back to the Romantic and pre-Raphaelite eras. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 047147.
(Inventory #: 047147)