New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Fourth printing. Octavo. xvi, 534pp., v. Fellow poet Daniel G. Hoffman's copy with his name penned on the front fly and minimal pencil marginalia, light sunning on cloth edges, near fine in a very good lightly rubbed dust jacket with spine and edges age-toned, small stain on bottom edge of rear panel. Laid in is a small notebook with handwritten notes on Stevens by Hoffman.

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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: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 528572
Title: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Author: STEVENS, Wallace
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0394403304
ISBN 13: 9780394403304
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1957
Keywords: AmerLit20thCent, Poetry
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...