A Southern Vanguard: Stories and Poems by Southern Writers. Essays on Southern Themes.


First edition. Edited by Allen Tate, this mid-century anthology showcases essays, poems, and short stories by writers from or connected to the American South. The volume highlights the region’s literary vitality with twenty-eight works covering Southern culture, criticism, and fiction. Notable contributors include Malcolm Cowley, Peter Taylor, Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Brewster Ghiselin, Katherine Hoskins, and Andrew Lytle. It also includes uncollected works by John Peale Bishop and prize-winning pieces by Randall Jarrell and George Marion O’Donnell.


Description: A Southern Vanguard: Stories and Poems by Southern Writers. Essays on Southern Themes.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1947). 331 pages. Octavo. Very good in a good dust jacket with two careful interior tape mends, light rear panel soil, price intact. “A.M. Howard” inked neatly to front free endpaper. A presentable copy in a new mylar wrapper.

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Price: $45.00

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