NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY 1937
by LAUGHLIN, James, IV, editor (W.W.E. ROSS)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated boards printed in blue, black, and grey. Unpaged. Spine only faintly darkened with minor rubbing to ends; light rubbing along bottom edges; top page edges and endpapers lightly yellowed; nice bookplate inside front cover of John Bennett Shaw, the noted Sherlockian; else fine. The dust jacket (design by Alfonso Ossorio, duplicating covers), has small corner chips to the yellowed spine; light sunning to flap folds and upper margin of rear panel; VG+ otherwise. A nice copy. Contributions by Jean Cocteau, Henry Miller, Kay Boyle, W.C. Williams, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Delmore Schwartz, Kenneth Rexroth, and others, including five pages titled "Distillates", short prose by one of Canada's earliest modernist poets (and first Imagist poet) W.W.E. Ross. An uncommon volume from the second year of this distinguished modernist press. ; Octavo .
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- Steven Temple Books ABAC / ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55394
- Title
- NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY 1937
- Author
- LAUGHLIN, James, IV, editor (W.W.E. ROSS)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian literature;
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