Accession number
PML 187583
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. Twenty copies numbered I-XX are printed on Duca di Modena, an Italian handmade paper, for presentation purposes. ... November 1935"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. XIII.
Library's copy housed in cream 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. Twenty copies numbered I-XX are printed on Duca di Modena, an Italian handmade paper, for presentation purposes. ... November 1935"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. XIII.
Library's copy housed in cream 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 ; 25 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's signature in ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Light tan calf stamped gilt at spine and on boards with red spine title panel stamped in gilt, with green decorated endpapers.
Classification
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