Notes on Twentieth Century American Poetry

This title was a revision of the earlier Modern American Poets and Modern American Poetry.

In mid-1963, a further revision was published in a #9 binding. This revision has a spring 1963 list on the dust jacket (415 titles) and a Spring Giants list in the back-of-book catalog (G87 Medieval Epics but not G88 O'Hara, 49 Stories). Further, Bill Hornick reports that his 1964 copy of 127.4 with the #11 binding has a a biographical note for Aiken not seen in previous printings.

Amazing for Aiken ML anthologies, the book and DJ titles matched.

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition, 1944

First binding style:     8

First inverse DJ number:   303 [127.3]
                                              415 [127.4]

Dates in print:     [March] 1945 - 1963 (style 8 binding)
                              [April]  1963 - 1975 (revised in a style 9 binding)

Toledano number:    127.3 (1945 - 1963 style 8 binding)
                                    127.4 (1963 - 1975 starting in style 9 binding)

GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?      yes

Intro author:     Conrad Aiken

Genre:     Poetry

Original language:      English

Thanks to the contributors:
Henry Toledano Gordon Neavill Ron Holl
V.Civiletti Bill Hornick  

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