An adventure in print, a brief anthology of verse.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publication:

Philadelphia, The Quicksilver Associates, A Cooperative Publishing Society, 1935. (Philadelphia : Printed in the United States of America by The Magee Press, 6388 Overbrook Avenue)

Format/Description:

Book
55, [1] p. illus. 23 cm.

Subjects:

American poetry -- Collections.
American literature -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Place of Publication:

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Contents:

Gents' Furnishings / Christopher Gerould
"If Every Sunrise
" / C. Wayne Smyth
Paris to Helen / Margaret S. Vauclain
Ave Atque Vale / Laura N. Hunter
Quaeso / C. Wayne Smyth
Song for Winter / Margaret S. Vauclain
Reasons against Departure / Elise B. Kauders
The Argument / John M. Poole, IV
Feminine Wish / Virginia Dorsey
Created He Them / Sylvia Scott Korff
The Bride / Jean F. Beatty
Cinquains / Evan Bruce Byall
Sonnet / Eugenia C. Smith
Sonnet on Death / Elise Woodward
Love Came to Me / Jean F. Beatty
Aubade / René Blanc-Roos
To a Lady Born in the Same Month as He / Evan Bruce Byall
Circle / Margaret S. Vauclain
From "Wine and Roses" / John Irvin Shaw
Sixteen / Virginia Dorsey
Antithesis / Laura N. Hunter
Run along, Joyce / Edward G. Zern
The Fortunate Young Man / Evan Bruce Byall
Sonnet on Desertion / Elise Woodward
Manchester Bridge / Edward G. Zern
I Am One of the Lone Ones / Laura G. Thomson
Fate / Elise Woodward
Apis / Charles E. Claghorn
Incident / Laura N. Hunter
Desolation / Edwin J. Muller
The Incomparable / Evan Bruce Byall
Epitaph / Jane E. Considine.

Notes:

With half-title.
T.p. printed in black within double-ruled red border.
"Illustrated with Eight Linoleum Black Prints, and the Text Printed on a Hand Press."--Dust-jacket.
"First poems of the younger writers in and about Philadelphia."--Introduction.
Includes index.
"List of the Quicksilver Associates": p. 54-55.
"The first edition ... is limited to 300 numbered copies, of which 150 are for distribution to the members of The Quicksilver Associates."

Local notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 82.
Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Penn Chronology:

1935

Contributor:

The Quicksilver Associates.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

8217932

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