Pencil in the Air. [Children's Album; Madrigal Macabre; Desert Song; The Grail; Progress; Nocturne West Los Angeles; Demos is Done; Flies Without Ointment; Revelation, Comparative Survey; Notebook of a Schnook; Mild Observation; To Joyce Kilmer]

Garden City, NY : Doubleday, MCMXLVII (1947)., 1947. Very Good. 1st edition ; 224 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 47-11075 ; LC: PS3515.O227; Dewey: 811 ; OCLC: 1136728 ; blue cloth with silver designs and lettering ; no dustjacket ; Children's Album -- Madrigal Macabre -- Desert Song -- The Grail -- Autobiography with Adjuration or Emergency Measure or O Congress, Give the Children Beer -- Progress -- Nocturne West Los Angeles -- Demos is Done -- Flies Without Ointment -- Revelation -- Comparative Survey -- Notebook of a Schnook -- Mild Observation -- To Joyce Kilmer -- To a Certain Person -- The Complete Workd of Josiah Hopestone -- It is Finished -- For a Zither -- Churchbells -- Stanzas -- Weather Report -- Drums -- The Forest -- Mid-May Song -- Song, on Reading that the Cyclotron has Produced Cosmic Rays, B lasted the Atom into Twenty-two Particles, Solved the Mystery of the Transmutation of Elements and Devil Knows What -- Rhymed Observations -- Old Testament: Moses, Joshua -- To a Friend, B.J., Age, Six Months -- Personal Notation -- A Simple Tale -- Practical Conclusion -- Obituary -- Fantasy on a Familiar Theme -- Advice to the Lovelorn (Women only) -- Quatrain -- Quiz -- To a Cat -- Who Grope, with Love for Hands -- Portrait -- Description -- Postlude -- To My Mother -- Eclogue. ; "Hoffenstein was among the most famous American light versifiers of the first half of the twentieth century, but today he is all but forgotten. Born in Lithuania, he immigrated to the United States when he was four years old and grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania."--James Geary. ; He later worked in Hollywood as a scriptwriter in the 1930's ; spine sunned, else VG