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STEVENS, Wallace. The Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
8°. Original maroon cloth; pictorial dust jacket (chip at head of front panel with loss of several letters, toned). Provenance: Jerry Baxter (presentation inscription from the author).
FIRST EDITION, number 390 of 2,500 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEVENS on the front free endpaper: “To Jerry Baxter from Wallace Stevens Oct. 4, 1954.” Stevens inscribed this copy three days after its publication on October 1, and 2 days after his 75th birthday, the occasion for its publication. With the exception of six poems, the poems in the section “The Rock” appear here for the first time. Edelstein A23.a.I.
8°. Original maroon cloth; pictorial dust jacket (chip at head of front panel with loss of several letters, toned). Provenance: Jerry Baxter (presentation inscription from the author).
FIRST EDITION, number 390 of 2,500 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEVENS on the front free endpaper: “To Jerry Baxter from Wallace Stevens Oct. 4, 1954.” Stevens inscribed this copy three days after its publication on October 1, and 2 days after his 75th birthday, the occasion for its publication. With the exception of six poems, the poems in the section “The Rock” appear here for the first time. Edelstein A23.a.I.