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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.
Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.

Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
8vo. Original checkered boards, blue cloth spine, printed paper spine label, publisher's dust-jacket. Mild soiling to spine of jacket, some restoration along upper margin. With 4 pp publisher's catalogue dated Fall 1923 laid-in.
Provenance: Marcia A. Taylor (Maine poet, 1881-1969, autograph to endpaper).

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, in the first state binding and original dust-jacket. One of 500 bound in checkered boards, published when he was 44 years old, an important contribution to modernism. "Enter America. Stevens was over forty when his first book, containing much of his best work, was published. He takes delicious liberties with the American idiom, he radiates sensuous happiness and verbal felicity especially in his shorter poems" (Connolly 46). Edelstein A1a.

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