Opus Posthumous
by Stevens, Wallace
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394404041
- ISBN 13
- 9780394404042
- Seller
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Lyndonville, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. 1st Edition 7th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Borzoi Book. Black boards with white and gilt decorations. Some faint spotting on the covers. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar and in fine condition. The interior is bright and clean, some spotting along top of the text block.
Synopsis
Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955. Although he had contributed to the Harvard Advocate while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a sepcial 1914 wartime issue of Poetry . Harmonium , his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), The Auroras of Autumn (1950), The Necessary Angel (a volume of essays, 1951), The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1954), and Opus Posthumous (first published in 1957, edited by Samuel Frued Morse; a new, revised, and corrected edition by Milton J. Bates, 1989). Mr. Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. In 1951 he won the National Book Award in Poetry for The Auroras of Autumn , in 1955 he won it a second time for The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens , which was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1955. From 1916 on, he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice president in 1934.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Green Mountain Books and Prints
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004769
- Title
- Opus Posthumous
- Author
- Stevens, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 7th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394404041
- ISBN 13
- 9780394404042
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 302
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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