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STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.
Ideas of Order. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935.

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

Ideas of Order. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935.
8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut, original French fold glassine wrapper, publisher's plain cardstock slipcase, light toning to glassine tiny chips at corners, slipcase worn.

"She sang beyond the genius of the Sea...."

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, OF STEVENS'S MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION,
an unnumbered copy signed by Stevens at the colophon. Published 13 years after his acclaimed first book, Ideas of Order contains his landmark, "The Idea of Order at Key West," which critic Jay Parini called the second greatest American poem (after Whitman's "Song of Myself"). Edelstein A2.a.

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