Accession number
PML 187209
Creator
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
Published
Cummington, Mass. : Cummington Press, 1945.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition, unsigned issue. Cf. Edelstein.
"From the west wall of Trinity Tulpehocken"--Bookplate of Wallace Stevens.
"Of this book three hundred forty copies have been printed from Centaur types, those numbered 1 to 300 on Pace paper from Italy & the others, i to xl, signed by author & artist with the drawings colored by hand, on Van Gelder wove paper from the Netherlands"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number 237.
Library's copy housed in blue cloth clamshell box.
"From the west wall of Trinity Tulpehocken"--Bookplate of Wallace Stevens.
"Of this book three hundred forty copies have been printed from Centaur types, those numbered 1 to 300 on Pace paper from Italy & the others, i to xl, signed by author & artist with the drawings colored by hand, on Van Gelder wove paper from the Netherlands"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number 237.
Library's copy housed in blue cloth clamshell box.
Description
[26] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on preliminary page: Poetry is a pleasant disappearing in the brush, [signed] Wallace Stevens.
Provenance
Bookplate of Wallace Stevens; Carter Burden.
Binding
Green "Natsune" straw paper covered boards backed in black morocco lettered in gold (Cf. Edelstein).
Classification
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