Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
R.P. Blackmur. The Second World. The Cummington Press, 1942.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #159 of 300 limited edition. Black cloth boards with light wear. Spine tips with edge wear and discoloration. About 3/4" of top of spine also discolored. Stray soil to edge of front endpaper. DJ, poor, only the front panel with two small sections of the spine is present, with tape repairs, laid in.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No. 235 of 300 copies. Good condition. Bound in black cloth. Cover is lightly stained on top edge and lightly soiled. Spine is sunfaded, but title still visible. Interior pages lightly damp stained along top edge, otherwise very cle an. Binding strong and tight.
Seller: RW Books, Strasburg, VA, U.S.A.
BLACKMUR, R.P.. The Second World. The Cummington Press, Cummington, Massachusetts, 1942.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 30pp. Black cloth printed in blue on spine. Slight sunning on the boards, rear endpapers are moderately tanned, else a near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Nicely printed by The Cummington Press in black and blue type hand-set by Katharine Frazier in Centaur and Arrighi types and hand-printed on Sterling laid paper by Harry Duncan and David Newton. One of 300 numbered copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
R. P. Blackmur. The Second World. The Cummington Press, Cummington, Massachusetts, 1942.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 29pp. Number 284 of an edition of 300 copies, hand-set in Centaur and Arrighi type on Sterling Laid paper. Initials printed in blue; motif from an Irish Druid breastplate on the title page. Spine sunned, and tiny spot of wear to corners of spine head, else fine in black cloth boards. No dust jacket.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Blackmur. R.P.. The Second World.. The Cummington Press, Cummington, 1942.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #281/300 copies, the whole edition. Printed letterpress by Harry Duncan and company, bound in black cloth stamped in blue at spine, in clear unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Decorative device on title page by Eugene Canade. 29pp. Q15641
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Blackmur, R.P.. The Second World. Cummington Press, Cummington, 1942.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 29 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 262 of 300 in Centaur and Arrighi types, hand printed on laid paper. Orig. black cloth spine lettered in blue. Fine in fine glassine overwrapper
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
BLACKMUR, R.P.. The Second World (Limited Edition). The Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1942.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 29 pages. Number 56 from an edition of 300 copies. Hand printed on Sterling Laid paper by Harry Duncan and David Newton using Centaur and Arrighi types set by Katherine Frazier. A clean near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket that has some small edge chips and tears. Seemingly somewhat uncommon in the dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
R.P. Blackmur. The Second World. Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington Press, 1942.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Ownership signature of Sam Morse in pencil, otherwise a pristine F/F copy. Number 23 of 300 numbered copies.
Seller: Ben Mazer Modern Firsts, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
BLACKMUR, R.P.. The Second World. Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1942.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in an near fine, lightly worn dustwrapper with sunning at the spine. Number 11 out of 300 copies of these politically inspired verses.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BLACKMUR, R. P.. The Second World. The Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1942.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, title-page decoration by Eugene Canade, original black cloth, tissue dust jacket. Very fine copy. First edition. Limited to 300 copies, the Centaur and Arrighi types set by hand by Katharine Frazier and printed on Sterling Laid paper by Harry Duncan and David Newton.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.