Poems In Praise Of Practically Nothing
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931.
Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #15485
Spine lettering faded, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; INSCRIBED by author on front free endpaper. Samuel Hoffenstein was a poet and entertainment writer in New York until 1931, then spent most of his life in Los Angeles as a screenwriter. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. contains some of his work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Stories. Louis Untermeyer said of Hoffenstein's light verse, "whose cynicisms were always on the point of breaking into tears". Signed copy of this delightful and popular collection of witty light verse.; 217 pages; Signed by Author.
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