[BROOKS, VAN WYCK and JOHN HALL WHEELOCK]. [Cover title:] Verses by Two Undergraduates. [Cambridge, Mass.: Privately Printed] 1905. 12mo, original printed wrappers, front cover virtually detached (but re-attachable), a crack in the thin spine mended; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the first separate publication for both writers; with A SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY WHEELOCK of over 100 words (1963) on the inside front cover, reading in part: "While we were still freshmen at Harvard, Van Wyck Brooks and I...decided to take the world by storm with Verses by Two Undergraduates, of which 100 copies were printed at our expense...The poems of Van Wyck Brooks appear on the left-hand page throughout; mine, on the right-hand page...If memory serves me, 6 copies in all were sold." Rare.

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[BROOKS, VAN WYCK and JOHN HALL WHEELOCK]. [Cover title:] Verses by Two Undergraduates. [Cambridge, Mass.: Privately Printed] 1905. 12mo, original printed wrappers, front cover virtually detached (but re-attachable), a crack in the thin spine mended; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the first separate publication for both writers; with A SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY WHEELOCK of over 100 words (1963) on the inside front cover, reading in part: "While we were still freshmen at Harvard, Van Wyck Brooks and I...decided to take the world by storm with Verses by Two Undergraduates, of which 100 copies were printed at our expense...The poems of Van Wyck Brooks appear on the left-hand page throughout; mine, on the right-hand page...If memory serves me, 6 copies in all were sold." Rare.

Provenance: With Seven Gables Bookshop, First Books by American Authors, New York, 1965, item 37 -- Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25 October 1977, lot 304).