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Esthétique du mal : a poem / by Wallace Stevens ; with pen & ink drawings by Wightman Williams ; printed in July 1945 at the Cummington Press, Cummington Massachusetts.

Accession number
PML 187207
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.
"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 189.
Description
[26] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Former owner's inscription in blue ink on front pastedown: William Arrowsmith, Princeton, 1946.
Provenance
Inscribed by William Arrowsmith; Carter Burden.
Binding
Green "Natsune" straw paper covered boards backed in black morocco lettered in gold (Cf. Edelstein).
Classification
Department