The Man With The Blue Guitar Including Ideas Of Order
by STEVENS, Wallace
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Extremities of spine slightly worn, otherwise a very copy in price-clipped dust jacket which is lightly darkened along spine
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
N. Y.: Knopf, 1952. First edition of this combined edition, Edelstein's "third edition" with a revised note of acknowledgment. One of 2000 copies printed. Edelstein A4c. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title page "For Richard Hammer, / Poesie d'abord! / Poesie toujours! / F(rancis) Carco - Wallace Stevens Nov. 6, 1952." With the recipient's signature on the front free endpaper. Our supposition is that the recipient was Richard Hammer, the author and journalist, who passed away at the age of 93 in 2021. At the time this book was published, Hammer was a graduate student at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, Stevens' home town. Extremities of spine slightly worn, otherwise a very copy in price-clipped dust jacket which is lightly darkened along spine. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Extremities of spine slightly worn, otherwise a very copy in price-clipped dust jacket which is lightly darkened along spine.
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- Bookseller
- James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23394
- Title
- The Man With The Blue Guitar Including Ideas Of Order
- Author
- STEVENS, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used - Extremities of spine slightly worn, otherwise a very copy in price-clipped dust jacket which is lightly darkened along spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition of this combined edition, Edelstein's "third editi
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- N. Y.
- Date Published
- 1952
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Deep River, Connecticut
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