Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Modern Library #127.4) by AIKEN, Conrad (editor) - [c.1961]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. [c.1961]. Hardcover. From the jacket cover: "The vigor and diversity of American poetry are [sic] made strikingly manifest in this newly revised anthology." The poets represented range from Emily Dickinson to Robert Frost, Ezra Pound and many others. This Modern Library edition edited, and with a preface, by Conrad Aiken. Indices of poets and first lines at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on burgundy spine & cover blocks / faded red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 405 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1961 (though 1944 date appears in book). ML #127.4. --- An unmarked, tightly-bound copy, though with dulling to cover gilding and a tear to a leaf near the rear of the book. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) is well-preserved, though with slight age-toning and chafing to edges; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xx, 410, [2] pages .