[Offprint]: What's Happening to Prose

[Urbana, Illinois]: College English [University of Chicago Press/ National Council of Teachers of English], 1954. Softcover. Good. First separate edition, offprint from *College English*. Large octavo. [8]pp. pagination as issued p.[17]-24. Stapled printed self-wrappers. Covers are quite worn along spine and partially detached at staples, with a few nicks and short tears, a single horizontal crease where once folded, just a good copy of a rare publication. Text of a paper read at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in Saint Louis." Inscribed by Van Duyn: "for Jacqueline & Peter with best wishes Mona" on the front cover. A very early separate publication of any work by Van Duyn; her first collection of verse was not published until 1959. Rare. *OCLC* cites one holding for this title at Yale; and a single holding of a similar offprint by Van Duyn from a July, 1953 issue of "Sewanee Review