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MARILYN MONROE BOOKS OF AMERICAN POETRY
Seventeen books of American poetry including the titles 'Collected Sonnets' (1941) and 'Collected Sonnets' (1959) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Robert Frost's Poems' (1959) by Louis Untermeyer, 'Poe Complete Poems' (no date) by Richard Wilbur, 'The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel' (1950) by Don Marquis, 'The Pocketbook of Modern Verse' (1954) by Oscar Williams, 'Poems' (1959) by John Tagliabue, 'Selected Poems' (1944) by Rafael Alberti, 'Selected Poetry' (1938) by Robinson Jeffers, 'The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry' (1956) by Perry Miller, 'Selected Poems' (1957) by Maria Rainer Rilke, 'Poet in New York' (1955) by Federico Garcia Lorca, 'The Vapor Trail' (1959) by Ivan Lawrence Becker with his inscription to Arthur Miller on the title page as well as his inscription on a presentation slip to MM which reads Dear Mrs. Miller:/I hope you do not mind my taking/the liberty of sending you a copy/of my little book The Vapor Trail./Sincerely good wishes/Ivan Lawrence Becker, 'Love Poems & Love Letters for All the Year' (no date) by Peter Pauper Press, 'One Hundred Modern Poems' (1953) by Selden Rodman, 'The Sweeniad' (1957) by Myra Buttle and 'Poetry: A Magazine of Verse' (Vol. 70 No. 6) (1947).
Please note all books in this lot have bookplates reading "Christie's/The Personal/Property/of/Marilyn Monroe" affixed to the inside front covers.
Seventeen books of American poetry including the titles 'Collected Sonnets' (1941) and 'Collected Sonnets' (1959) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Robert Frost's Poems' (1959) by Louis Untermeyer, 'Poe Complete Poems' (no date) by Richard Wilbur, 'The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel' (1950) by Don Marquis, 'The Pocketbook of Modern Verse' (1954) by Oscar Williams, 'Poems' (1959) by John Tagliabue, 'Selected Poems' (1944) by Rafael Alberti, 'Selected Poetry' (1938) by Robinson Jeffers, 'The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry' (1956) by Perry Miller, 'Selected Poems' (1957) by Maria Rainer Rilke, 'Poet in New York' (1955) by Federico Garcia Lorca, 'The Vapor Trail' (1959) by Ivan Lawrence Becker with his inscription to Arthur Miller on the title page as well as his inscription on a presentation slip to MM which reads Dear Mrs. Miller:/I hope you do not mind my taking/the liberty of sending you a copy/of my little book The Vapor Trail./Sincerely good wishes/Ivan Lawrence Becker, 'Love Poems & Love Letters for All the Year' (no date) by Peter Pauper Press, 'One Hundred Modern Poems' (1953) by Selden Rodman, 'The Sweeniad' (1957) by Myra Buttle and 'Poetry: A Magazine of Verse' (Vol. 70 No. 6) (1947).
Please note all books in this lot have bookplates reading "Christie's/The Personal/Property/of/Marilyn Monroe" affixed to the inside front covers.
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Lot 554, Page 376
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