The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Rare Review Copy)
by Stevens, Wallace
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good +
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/good +. First edition in brick red cloth. 534 pp plus index. Hand numbered 153 of twenty five hundred copies of the first edition. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A handsome very good copy with bright unmarked spine lettering. Price intact dustwrapper has a line through the original $7.50 price at front flap. With several small chips and tears to wrapper edges. Spine color faintly toned, but less than most we have seen. REVIEW COPY with both the publisher review slip and a separate printed notice from the publisher stating that the printed date on the review slip is incorrect and that the correct publication date will be October 1. It goes on to say that Mr. Stevens' seventy-fifth birthday is October 2. The first copy we have ever handled with either of these two pieces of publishing ephemera.
Synopsis
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955) is a Modernist poet. Some of his best known poems in this collection include "Anecdote of the Jar", "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Sunday Morning", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1955
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- Bookseller
- Derringer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31911
- Title
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Rare Review Copy)
- Author
- Stevens, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Poetry, Pulitzer, National Book Award, Review Copy ABAA-NY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry Books;
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