[Rarebooks] FS: John Crowe Ransom's First Book, POEMS ABOUT GOD, 1919, in the very scarce dustwrapper

[Charles Agvent]

RANSOM, John Crowe. POEMS ABOUT GOD. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 
1919. First Edition. Original brown paper boards with paper label on the 
front board and spine, in the very scarce printed dustwrapper. Ransom's 
first book consisting of poems written while he was a cadet and later an 
officer in in World War I. The dustwrapper is complete but for slight 
loss along each flap fold and a vertical 2-1/2" chip along the spine 
edge and rear panel that is no wider than 1/4". Copies in any decent 
dustwrapper are virtually unknown. Fine in a Very Good or better 
dustwrapper. (#012412) $2,500.00

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