Author: LOWELL, Robert
Title: Land of Unlikeness
Description: (Cummington, MA), Cummington Press, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's blue boards stamped in orange, title page printed in red and black with woodcut in blue by Gustav Wolf. Introduction by Allen Tate. Lowell's first book, limited to a total of 250 copies printed. This is Copy #11 of only 26 on Dacian paper SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Slight fading to boards, moreso to the spine which has a couple of small tears, one neatly repaired. Very Good and scarce Allen Tate, in his introduction to this collection, tempers his praise with a fair assessment of Lowell's current stature and potential, heralding a lasting presence in American poetry: "The history of poetry shows that good verse does not inevitably make its way; but unless, after the war, the small public for poetry shall exclude all except the democratic poets who enthusiastically greet the advent of the slave-society, Robert Lowell will have to be reckoned with." Two years later, Lowell would win the Pulitzer Prize for LORD WEARY'S CASTLE, at the age of 30.

Keywords: Signed, First Book, Limited, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, Literature: American Signed Modern First Editions Literature: American Modern Poetry


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