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STEVENS, Wallace. Owl’s Clover. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1936.
Tall 8°. Original printed wrappers; publisher’s board slipcase (lacking spine panel).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 20 of 85 copies signed by Stevens from an edition of 105. Stevens wrote “The title is merely a phrase of my own. What I mean by it is that the reader my at last hope to find here and there the pleasure of poetry, if not exactly the pleasure of thought. To combine those two things is one of the jobs that lies ahead” (Letters, p. 312, to Latimer, 26 October 1936, quoted in Edelstein). Edelstein A3.
Tall 8°. Original printed wrappers; publisher’s board slipcase (lacking spine panel).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 20 of 85 copies signed by Stevens from an edition of 105. Stevens wrote “The title is merely a phrase of my own. What I mean by it is that the reader my at last hope to find here and there the pleasure of poetry, if not exactly the pleasure of thought. To combine those two things is one of the jobs that lies ahead” (Letters, p. 312, to Latimer, 26 October 1936, quoted in Edelstein). Edelstein A3.