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BISHOP, ELIZABETH. 1911-1979. Poems. North & South — A Cold Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.
4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
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BISHOP, ELIZABETH. 1911-1979.
Poems. North & South — A Cold Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.
Original cloth, dust jacket. Jacket spine panel toned and with two short closed tears, light wear to corners, some pale spotting to jacket verso, cloth covers and slightly to endpapers.
PRESENTATION COPY, FIRST EDITION, inscribed and signed on the title page: "Love & best wishes to Phyllis Armstrong — Elizabeth Bishop, Washington, D.C., May 6th, 1969."
Phyllis Armstrong was Bishop's secretary when she was Poet Laureate and resident in D.C. She said of this period, "I've suffered because I've been so shy all my life. A few years later I might have enjoyed it more but at the time I didn't like it much. I hated Washington. There were so many government buildings that looked like Moscow. There was a very nice secretary, Phyllis Armstrong, who got me through. I think she did most of the work. I'd write something and she's say, 'Oh, no, that isn't official,' so then she'd take it and rewrite it into gobbledegook. We used to bet on the horses—Phyllis always bet the daily double. She and I would sit there reading the Racing Form and poets would come to call and Phyllis and I would be talking about our bets!" (interview in 1978 with E. Spires, Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop, p 131).
This is Elizabeth Bishop's second book and it won the Pulitzer Prize. MacMahon A2.
Original cloth, dust jacket. Jacket spine panel toned and with two short closed tears, light wear to corners, some pale spotting to jacket verso, cloth covers and slightly to endpapers.
PRESENTATION COPY, FIRST EDITION, inscribed and signed on the title page: "Love & best wishes to Phyllis Armstrong — Elizabeth Bishop, Washington, D.C., May 6th, 1969."
Phyllis Armstrong was Bishop's secretary when she was Poet Laureate and resident in D.C. She said of this period, "I've suffered because I've been so shy all my life. A few years later I might have enjoyed it more but at the time I didn't like it much. I hated Washington. There were so many government buildings that looked like Moscow. There was a very nice secretary, Phyllis Armstrong, who got me through. I think she did most of the work. I'd write something and she's say, 'Oh, no, that isn't official,' so then she'd take it and rewrite it into gobbledegook. We used to bet on the horses—Phyllis always bet the daily double. She and I would sit there reading the Racing Form and poets would come to call and Phyllis and I would be talking about our bets!" (interview in 1978 with E. Spires, Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop, p 131).
This is Elizabeth Bishop's second book and it won the Pulitzer Prize. MacMahon A2.