*COLLECTIBLE ITEM / HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION 1925 PUBLISHED BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY / SLIGHT TANNING AS PER AGE / NO MARKS ON TEXT / BOOK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN BOUGHT AND NEVER READ / ILLUSTRATED COVER AND I DO NOT THINK A BOOK OF THIS AGE WAS PUBLISHED WITH A DUST JACKET / EXCELLENT BOOK THROUGHOUT. Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". In 2009, The Library of America selected Benét’s story “The King of Cats” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub. Tiger Joy. Combining ballads, sonnets, and lyrics, Benét displays both a growing technical mastery and wider emotional range in this collection. He also achieves a major popular success with the ballad "The Mountain Whippoorwill," which displays his reliance on folk elements and dialect humor.

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