GENERAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Property from the Estate of
PHYLLIS GOODHART GORDAN
AIKEN, CONRAD. Typescript signed of The Jig of Forslin. A Symphony of Vicarious Adventure. Boston, n.d. [c. 1916?]. 80 pages, 4to, double-spaced, the original ribbon copy but a clean typescript with no corrections, metal paper-fastener at upper left corner, the first page browned and torn at fastener, two other leaves a little chipped at edges, maroon cloth slipcase, signed by the poet at top of first page: "Conrad Aiken 11 Walnut St. Boston, Mass." This long poem formed Aiken's third book, The Jig of Forslin: a Symphony, published in Boston by The Four Seas Company in 1916. [With:] Typescript of an untitled prose piece by Aiken, his response to ten questions or points regarding modern poetry, artists being exempt from military service, "the contemporary poetic renaissance," "literary bolshevism," etc., n.p., n.d. [c. 1917-18], 5 1/2 pages, the original ribbon copy, double-spaced, with a long pencilled deletion and a two-word pencilled revision (by Aiken?). (2)
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AIKEN, CONRAD. Typescript signed of The Jig of Forslin. A Symphony of Vicarious Adventure. Boston, n.d. [c. 1916?]. 80 pages, 4to, double-spaced, the original ribbon copy but a clean typescript with no corrections, metal paper-fastener at upper left corner, the first page browned and torn at fastener, two other leaves a little chipped at edges, maroon cloth slipcase, signed by the poet at top of first page: "Conrad Aiken 11 Walnut St. Boston, Mass." This long poem formed Aiken's third book, The Jig of Forslin: a Symphony, published in Boston by The Four Seas Company in 1916. [With:] Typescript of an untitled prose piece by Aiken, his response to ten questions or points regarding modern poetry, artists being exempt from military service, "the contemporary poetic renaissance," "literary bolshevism," etc., n.p., n.d. [c. 1917-18], 5 1/2 pages, the original ribbon copy, double-spaced, with a long pencilled deletion and a two-word pencilled revision (by Aiken?). (2)