Accession number
PML 187584
Creator
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
Published
New York : Alcestis Press, 1935.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
"This first edition of thirty-six poems is strictly limited to 165 copies, signed by the author ... 135 copies, numbered 1-135 on Strathmore permanent all-rag paper, are for sale ... November 1935"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 53.
Library's copy housed in green cloth clamshell box.
"These poems have appeared in the Nation, the New Republic, the Fugitive, the Saturday Review of Literature, the Southern Review, Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, the Poetry Supplement of the American Review (1934), the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southwest Review, and the American Caravan"--Title page verso.
"This first edition of thirty-six poems is strictly limited to 165 copies, signed by the author ... 135 copies, numbered 1-135 on Strathmore permanent all-rag paper, are for sale ... November 1935"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 53.
Library's copy housed in green cloth clamshell box.
"These poems have appeared in the Nation, the New Republic, the Fugitive, the Saturday Review of Literature, the Southern Review, Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, the Poetry Supplement of the American Review (1934), the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southwest Review, and the American Caravan"--Title page verso.
Description
69 pages ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: To Glenway Wescott, with admiration, Red Warren, December 1940; author's signautre in ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Bookplate of and signed to Glenway Wescott; Carter Burden.
Binding
Cream wrappers printed in black with author's photograph on front flap.
Classification
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