darlene mathis eddy (3 Ergebnisse)

Wrappers. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Selma: Barnwood Press, 1985. First edition, stated first printing. Association copy signed/inscribed by author on title page to poet/teacher Donald W. Baker. Also enclosed is a two-page letter to Baker and comments (presumed by Baker) on several of the poems. Covers slightly soiled. Very good condition, letter in fine condition/folded. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Very Good. Daleville, IN: Barnwood Press Cooperative, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 80pp. Light shelf wear and soil to wrappers, else a Very Good, internally fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the Indiana poet to Robert S. Sargent, the late Defense Department defensive weapons specialist and published poet, "with respect and appreciation." Additionally includes autograph letter with original envelope laid in: "For awhile I have been thinking of sending you a copy of 'Leaf Thread'.to you and refrained because I did not want you to think I was being presumptuous. Your poetry has been a source of enjoyment and encouragement to me, and I thought you might like to glance at the collection. It is a modest beginning, to be sure.".

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. ix, [1], 39, [3] p. illus. 23 cm. Ball State monograph; no. 20. Publications in English, no. 14. Illustrations. Notes From an on-line posting: Darlene Mathis Eddy taught for thirty-two years at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and is now a professor at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. From Wikipedia: "Francis Fergusson (1904 1986) was a Harvard and Oxford-educated teacher and critic, a theorist of drama and mythology who wrote The Idea of a Theater, (Princeton, 1949) arguably the best and most influential book about drama written by an American Born in New Mexico, he received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied briefly at Oxford University before traveling to France and wrote drama criticism for the Herald Tribune, making a reputation as a keen-minded and practical critic of American and classical European drama. In the early 1930s he founded the drama division of the then new Bennington College in southwestern Vermont. After nearly a decade at Bennington, he moved on to teach at the University of Indiana and then at Rutgers University where he taught comparative literature. Good. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling. Inscribed to Francis Fergusson! . Pencil notation on front cover.