Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1946, 1^st.  Hard cover, 231 pages including Indices.  Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light edge wear, tiny bit of fading at spine edges; binding sound.  Dust jacket has all corners clipped, showing edge and cover wear, tears and some repaired tears on verso, and some losses.  Gift inscription on FEP, some off-setting due to newspaper clipping laid in, paper clip impression/marks on first two pages; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Printed on light tan paper; illustrated by Nils Hogner.  ‘There are poems by Shakespeare (of course!), Edgar Guest, Eugene Field, Arthur Guiterman, Dorothy Parker, Rachel Field, James Whitcomb Riley, John Galsworthy, Don Marquis, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot (The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles), and dozens of others.  Altogether there are over a hundred and fifty poems.’ (from front flap)