John Hall Wheelock — Dust and Light

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A very smart presentation copy of this collection from American poet John Hall Wheelock, inscribed with two stanzas which had not yet been published. A presentation copy to one Miss Linda Wolf. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, followed by 'Autumnal Moonlight', an eight-line inscribed poem with a note stating that "These stanzas have never yet been published".In the publisher's original cloth binding. An early collection from American poet John Hall Wheelock, a descendant of Dartmouth College founder, Eleazar Wheelock. This is the first of Wheelock's works to be published by Scribner, for whom he became senior editor by 1947. During his career he worked with such distinguished authors as Thomas Wolfe and James Truslow Adams and is noted for discovering poets May Swenson and James Dickey. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, very smart, with mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers. Author's inscription to the front free endpaper. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .