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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.