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The Viking Press, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Viking, 1952. Second Printing . Brown Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Roberta MacDonald. Clean and unmarked, a superb copy. Jacket shows light wear, some fading. A collection of Ms. McGinley's poems. Orig dealer tag (Witkowers, Hartford) inside back cover.

The Viking Press. Hardcover, with dust jacket, in Good condition, no stamps, writing or marks, jacket has some edge wear and small tears, book itself looks good, . Good. Hardcover. 1952.

NY, Viking Press, 1951,, 1951. first edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 175 pages, octavo. With illustrations by Roberta Macdonald. Book is in Very Good condition. Dust jacket is price-clipped, sunned on spine and edges, closed tear on front, Good. 092703A

The Viking Press, 1950-12-31. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 9x6x1. Presumed first; no later publication info provided. Hardbound book in good condition. Small moisture stain at center bottom of rear board, matched in verso of dust jacket. Book shows light wear overall and red tint to top of text block is slightly soiled and faded; corners of brown cloth boards lightly softened; pages clean and securely bound. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar shows fading and light soil overall, chipping at corners.

NY: Viking, 1951. Book. Illus. by Roberta Macdonald. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 175pp, Poems by the author. Published November, 1951. One written notation on inside flap of dustjacket and another on inside front cover. No other marks, no tears..

New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First edition, 1951. Generously llustrated with line drawings. Golden brown linen-like cloth with blindstamp-on-maroon cover lettering, salmon tinted top edge, 175 pages, color illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition, looks and feels about new, with sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings.The mylar protected dustjacket is priceclipped and is also in very good condition with a darkened spine and very minor additional edgewear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Viking Press, 1951. Bright cover and tight solid binding, though spine is a little faded. Signed "With many good wishes, Phyllis McGinley" on front end paper. A solid copy in Good Condition with charming illustrations by Roberta MacDonald.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Roberta MacDonald. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Viking Press, 1951. Good hardcover with no duist jacket; book description from original dust jacket pasted into inside back cover.. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Macdonald, Roberta.

NY: Viking, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. Faded dustjacket, solid, clean book. McGinley's poetic ruminations about life and family in Westchester County. Wittingly inscribed by her on the ffe: "For xxxx who will understand suburbia better, Phyllis McGinley" The cute drawings by Roberta McDonald match the sentiment.

New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First edition. Illustrated by Roberta Macdonald. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth, printed dust jacket. Some spotting, browning and light wear, else a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated by Roberta Macdonald. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Leonard Bacon. Inscribed by McGinley to the poet Leonard Bacon "With the hope that the verses in this book will bring no disgrace to the charming lines on the back jacket..." Bacon had contributed a short silly verse on Ms. McGinley which appears on the lower jacket.

New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First edition. Includes a long handwritten note signed by the author in response to a student's request for her views on poetry. McGinley defends "light verse" and briefly describes where Eliot, Marianne Moore, Auden and Yeats appear on a scale of "simple", "difficult" and "obscure". Note is on the bottom and reverse of the inquiring student's letter and in McGinley's own envelope, laid in loosely at the front along with an envelope containing newspaper clippings about the poet. Tan cloth, 175 pages, no dustjacket. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, gift notation on front pastedown, no other markings.. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Viking Press, 1951 First printing of the first edition. Signed and inscribed by Phyllis McGinley and Roberta Macdonald directly on the front-free endpage, with a hand drawn illustration of a castle with a moat and drawbridge: "For Eleanor Palffy / for whom I would / walk farther than / the station / with affection, / Phyllis MGinley" and "For Eleanor / who is holding the fort. / Love from Mackie /(R. M.)" Association: Countess Eleanor Palffy was a writer, socialite, and Hungarian expatriate. Book with rubbing to board extremities, light toning to endpapers, and a small shallow stain to outer fore-edge, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a diagonal chip to upper front cover, moderate wear to extremities, a couple short closed tears, a faint moisture mark along back cover fold, else fine.

McGinley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1960.

New York: Viking, 1951. 175pp. Book clean and unmarked, with tight binding, straight spine and square corners. Dust jacket shows toning to spine and mild wear to extremities but is intact, not price clipped. Envelope tipped in to front free endpaper. Four laid-in letters. The first is from April 27, 1937, from Republican politician Stanley M. Isaacs to McGinley. Isaacs praises McGinley's light verse. The following year, Isaacs became Manhattan Borough President, a position he held until 1941. McGinley's reply from April 29 of 1937 thanks Isaacs and updates him on news of her light verse publications. Letter signed by McKinley. The third letter, from Isaacs to McGinley, is dated December 27, 1951. In it, Isaacs discusses suburbia and McGinley's work. The final letter is from February 11, 1952, from McGinley to Isaacs. Unlike the other three, this is a handwritten note on a name card (Mrs. Charles Hayden - McGinley had married Hayden by that time). She acknowledges the complexities around… Read More