[Rarebooks] FS: First 5 volumes of Poetry Magazine in publisher's binding

[Charles Agvent]

(POUND,  Ezra; YEATS, W. B.; STEVENS, Wallace; SANDBURG,
        Carl; WILLIAMS,  William  Carlos;  FROST,   Robert;  et.  al.
        POETRY:  A  MAGAZINE  OF VERSE. Volumes I - V; 1912  -  1915.
        Chicago:  1912  -  1915.  First   Edition.  Five  volumes  in
        publisher's  green cloth stamped in black. The origin of  the
        most important   American  literary   periodical  to  feature
        poetry.   Other  poets  represented   include  H.D.,  Richard
        Aldington,  Vachel  Lindsay,  Amy  Lowell,  Joseph  Campbell,
        Edgar Lee    Masters,   and  many   others.   Notable   first
        appearances  include Sandburg's "Chicago" and Joyce  Kilmer's
        "Trees."  This  set  has in the first volume a  second  title
        page laid  in  that may or may not have been bound in at  one
        point.  The layout is similar to the title page that is bound
        in but  a little different with slightly different type. This
        set with  the ownership bookplates in each volume of Frank A.
        Vanderlip,  who led National City Bank in the early 1900s  to
        become  the  largest  bank in the United States  as  well  as
        opening  the first foreign branch of any United States  bank.
        Occasional  foxing  to  contents and covers.  Very  Good  and
        quite uncommon run of this important periodical.     $1500.00

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