Louis Untermeyer — Heavens

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. A striking and scarce first edition of American poet Louis Untermeyer's collection of parodies of the works of popular poets, in the vibrant and very scarce original dust wrapper. The scarce first edition of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and with this and the decorative boards and dust wrapper the work of C. Bertram Hartman. Louis Untermeyer presents a collection of literary parodies and comic verse directed particularly at the leading modern poets of the early twentieth century. Untermeyer imitates and exaggerates the styles of writers including Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Vachel Lindsay. In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper back strip and wrap perimeters age toned, with small chips to back strip tail and wrap heads. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: C. Bertram Hartman. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.