The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (LIMITED FIRST EDITION)
by Stevens, Wallace
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0394403304
- ISBN 13
- 9780394403304
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954 Hardcover Limited First Edition in original $7.50-priced red-orange-colored dust jacket (NOT the later issue powder blue one), #594 of 2500 numbered copies, bronze and silver-stamped brown cloth boards tight and pages bright, no markings, jacket shows light edge wear with a little crimping to spine top, a little toning to jacket rear panel & slight fade to spine, else Fine exemplary copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of one of the 20th century's most significant poets (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; (xvi) 534pp + v (index) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.
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
- Nighttown Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33046
- Title
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (LIMITED FIRST EDITION)
- Author
- Stevens, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394403304
- ISBN 13
- 9780394403304
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Stevens, Wallace The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (LIMITED FIRST EDITION)
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