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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing From Harry Duncan's Cummington Press of Massachusetts. Light green boards with the usual fading to spine. One of 246 copies and numbered. Quite lovely all around with clean text. Becoming scarce
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Wallace Stevens. Three Academic Pieces. The Cummington Press, Commington, Ma, 1947.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Of an edition of 246 copies, printed from Blado and Poliphilus types and from initial letters cut in wood by Wightman Williams, this copy is no. 33 of those numbered through 102 on Worthy Dacian paper. These pieces were read at Harvard in February, 1947, and appeared in the Partisan Review. They appear in the present edition by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Each piece (one prose, two poetry) opens with a colored initial. Light rubbing to extremities of green paper-covered boards, and slight sunning to spine, else fine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, 37pp; original pale blue-green boards printed in black on the spine and with yellow design on front board. One of 92 copies on Beauvais Arches with handcolored initials, out of the total edition of 246 copies. Edelstein A12. Typical fading to edges; spine slightly darkened and with a short, neat separation near base; very good, without the plain white dust jacket.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Stevens, Wallace. THREE ACADEMIC PIECES. The Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1947.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: 37 pp. One of 92 copies (of a total of 246 copies in three issues) in light blue paper-covered boards printed on Beauvais/Arches paper. Lacking the plain white paper dust jacket. Binding by Arno Werner; initial letters by Wightman Williams. First book publication of these poems. Lovely book from Harry Duncan's great press. Spine and edges faded, previous owner's name on ffep, else about fine. Edelstein A12.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Description: Signed Limited edition. One of fifty-two copies signed by the author, out of a total edition of 246. This being number 36. Octavo (7 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 133 mm). [1]-37, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [5, blank] pp. A large hand-colored initial at the start of each of the three pieces. Printed on Crown & Sceptre paper. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. Boards slightly beveled. Spine lettered in gray ink. Edges untrimmed. Boards lightly browned, and edges very lightly rubbed. Overall about fine. "These pieces were read, in February 1947, at Harvard University under the auspices of the Morris Gray Fund; they were first printed in Partisan Review for May 1947, & appear in the present edition by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher of Mr. Stevens' Harmonium, Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar, Parts of a World, & Transport to Summer." (Introduction). Edelstein. HBS 68426. $4,250.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine first edition, only the most minute wear. A bright fresh copy. 37, [2] pp. With hand-colored initials.(8vo), cloth backed decorative boards. One 52 copies signed by Wallace Stevens on Crown & Scepter watermarked paper. Delightful book.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Stevens, Wallace. Three Academic Pieces. The Cummington Press, [Cummington, MA], 1947.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, No. LII of 52 signed copies. 37, [3] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. One of 52. Stevens was deeply interested in Harry Duncan's Cummington Press, and wrote his editor at Knopf, Herbert Weinstock concerning this work, "certainly as interesting as any young printer in the country . I very earnestly wish to oblige Mr. Duncan." Edelstein A12; cf. The Letters of Wallace Stevens, p. 547 Cloth spine and boards. Near fine First edition, No. LII of 52 signed copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.