John Hall Wheelock THE BRIGHT DOOM 1927 and 7 similar items

THE BRIGHT DOOM: A Book Of Poems by John Hall Wheelock New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition, first printing. 1927 date printed to the title page and publisher's first edition seal to the copyright page. A hint of age-toning to decorative end-sheets, else a bright, fine copy in black cloth with gilt embossed titles and borders to the front cover and to the spine; in remarkable, nearly fine printed dust jacket that shows only a suggestion of darkening to the front inner flap. A lovely copy. Collection by the poet and editor (he would follow Perkins as senior editor at Scribner's in 1947). Included: "The Holy Earth," ("widely quoted at the time of its magazine publication"), and the Phi Beta Kappa poem, delivered at Harvard in June, 1927. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION POETRY BOOKS THANKS!