COLUMBIA POETRY 1939

With an Introduction by Charles Hanson Towne.  New York:Columbia University Press. 1939. 1st edition. xix+93pp. Hardcover.  Blue boards lightly shelfworn and soiled with soiling to page edges. Internally, the remains of something (Bookplate?) are stuck to the inside front board with offset to the adjacent page, but otherwise the pages are clean and bright. Overall, a very good copy.  **Collection of poetry, including the first published appearence of Thomas Merton. Poems included are Fable for a War, Aubade:Bermuda, Litany, Bureaucrats:Diggers, These Years a Winter and Christmas as to People. (Pgs 60-66).