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SARTON, MAY. Inner Landscape. Poems. The Cresset Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (95pp). Fore-edge ubcut, very lightly foxed, else clean unused. SCARCE Size: Medium Quarto
Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
MAY SARTON. Inner Landscape. Poems.. The Cresset Press, London [1939]., 1939.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The correct first edition of the author's uncommon second book, preceding the US edition which was printed from these Cresset Press sheets. 8vo. 95pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, and with the fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed. A light scattering of spotting to the top edge and free endpapers, with just a touch more to several preliminary leaves. A lengthy but light crease to the front free endpaper. A very crisp copy in the scarce dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but tanned at the spine panel and with some spotting and a little edge-chafing. A short crease to the base of the front wrapper flap.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
SARTON, MAY. Inner Landscape. Cresset Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Sarton's scarce second book of poems. Bookplate of hospital library on front pastedown, else very good plus or better with light soiling to cloth covers, in very good parchment dustjacket with tanning to spine panel and folds, shallow chips at spine crown and one corner, closed tear at top edge of rear panel.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Sarton, May. Inner Landscape -- Signed. Cresset Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: True first printing of Sarton's second book, preceding the U.S. edition. This was the first British publication of a Sarton book, and it contains the contents of both of her first two American books: "Encounter in April" and "Inner Landscape." Very good plus in green boards that are bright and clean; interior unmarked save for a faint stain along a small portion of the inner edge between pages. In a very good dust jacket (price intact) with sunning to spine, minor chipping at spine ends and corners, and a piece of matching tape on the reverse along the spine edge. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY SARTON on the flyleaf: "To Laura on a most happy occasion, May Sarton, and (---!). Honolulu, April 10, 1957." Opposite on the front pastedown is the book plate of Laura Mell Pleadwell, obviously the Laura in the inscription. She was the stepmother of Theodora Pleadwell, who was a student in Sartons Apprentice Theatre under Eva le Gallienne in the early 1930s. Letters indicate Theodora was a former lover and later friends with Sarton when she lived in New York with Muriel Rukeyser. Laura was married to Frank Lester Pleadwell, and Princeton has letters from Sarton to both Frank and Laura.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Sarton, May. Inner landscape. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: First American edition (using the sheets of the London, Cresset Press edition of the previous year) of Sarton's second book of poetry; 8vo, pp. viii, 64; dust jacket a bit soiled, corners worn, and cracks and shallow chips at the spine ends, small piece missing from the top of the back panel (no loss of letterpress); all else very good. The copy inscribed to Conrad Aiken: "For Conrad / who doesn't like these poems / they are nevertheless / respectfully given with / the author's love - / M - / Feb. 1, 1939."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.