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Stevens, Wallace. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1943.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A bright, tight copy.Boards are well-bound, a vertical slit runs up the edge of spine; a thin 1" curl of paper is torn from front board (surface tear; protected in mylar. Endpapers tanning; signature of original owner on front endpaper; pages are clean & sharp.

Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Stevens Wallace. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1943.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Faint discoloration to boards, one of 330. An attractive copy. 45pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 044160.

Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Stevens, Wallace. Notes toward a Supreme Fiction. The Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1943.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Second edition, limited to 333 copies set up by hand in Centaur types and printed at Cummington , Massachusetts during August and September, 1943. 45 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With one textual change from the first edition. Edelstein A 6b Tan linen spine, and gray boards, spine split. Signed T.C. Wilson 1946 on flyleaf Second edition, limited to 333 copies set up by hand in Centaur types and printed at Cummington , Massachusetts during August and September, 1943.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Stevens, Wallace. NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION. (WALLACE STEVENS' PERSONAL COPY). Cummington Press, Cummington, Mass., 1943.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Edelstein A 6. B. Printed on white wove paper. Watermarked 'ANDRIA'. "Colophon: This second edition of Notes toward a Supreme Fiction is limited to three-hundred-thirty copies set up by hand in Centaur types and printed at Cummington, Massachusetts during August and September, 1943. Binding and dust jacket: Gray paper-covered boards; yellow V cloth spine, stamped upward in black: 'Wallace Stevens Notes toward a Supreme Fiction'. White wove endpapers; top edges trimmed; fore edges untrimmed; bottom edges rough trimmed. Tissue dust jacket. Published November 1943, at $2.00, in an edition of 330 copies. " WS writes: "The books have come. I think they are very trim, even though rather prim, and I like the job, if I may call it that immensely. Thanks for the pains you have taken. " (Unpublished letter from WS to Harry Duncan. October 28, 1943). This copy was received by WS from the Cummington Press. An ever so tiny closed tear to the lower edge of the front panel of the dust jacket. Page 37, line 7 reads: "This was". Provenance: Wallace Stevens, Elsie Stevens, Holly Stevens. The purchaser will receive a letter of provenance. ; 8vo; 45, [1] pages

Seller: Elliot's Books Since 1957, Northford, CT, U.S.A.

STEVENS, Wallace. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington Press, Cummington, Massachusetts, 1943.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Second edition. Limited to 330 copies. Fine in near fine original unprinted glassine dustwrapper with a couple of small chips at the bottom of the spine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

STEVENS, Wallace. NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION. The Cummington Press (1943), Cummington, MA, 1943.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: Yellow cloth-backed gray boards in the scarce tissue dustwrapper. Edelstein A 6.b. One of 330 copies set by hand in Centaur types. This copy SIGNED twice by Stevens, once on the half-title page and again on the title page, quite unusual as such. Tape stain at top of rear board; some soiling to base of spine. Near Fine in a Very Good tissue dustwrapper with a 1-1/2 inch chip at the base of the spine

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.